Posted by Phisherman on 01/15/32 11:58

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:20:36 GMT, lugnut@NOSPAMhotmail.com (lugnut)
wrote:

>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


That would be ideal. I still have not got word from Hollywood Video,
asking them for a report file containing a specific store inventory.
It's bad enough that I was lucky and found a 1994 DVD on the "New
Release" wall.

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