Posted by lugnut on 01/15/36 11:58

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:57:19 +1200, Aaron Lawrence
<aaronlNOSPAM@NOSPAMconsultant.com> wrote:

>On a pleasant day while strolling in alt.video.dvd, a person by the name
>of Phisherman exclaimed:
>> It is frustrating going into a video rental store with a list of
>> movies to rent. I don't know what section to find a movie so I have
>
>I agree.
>
>I also wish they would have internet connected PCs in store, so I could
>check the reviews while I'm there. But then the stores might lose a
>bunch of rentals. (Then again, most people seem quite content to hire
>anything they like the cover of)
>

Hasting's (music/video store) here used to have a computer terminal
that wasn't online, but you could enter in a band's name or a film
name or whatever and pull up a brief review and it would also display
whether or not the store currently had it in stock (and if they
didn't, there was also a button where you could request it to be
special-ordered).

But for some reason, they got rid of it a few years back and it's
never returned. Something like that setup seems like it'd be great
for the average video store, though.

-lugnut

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