I read something recently about how, with the demise of Blockbuster, there's an expectation that the small, niche, independent video store might see a comeback sort of in the way vinyl has. Certainly nothing on a massive scale, but in certain markets. I found that suggestion interesting and certainly plausible.
I remember going to our local video stores in high school and, looking back, they were often carefully curated rather than just walls upon walls of 100 copies each of the most popular titles. We could go in there and talk with the people who worked there about film, and when you got to know each other and tastes enough, they'd have suggestions for you whenever you came in. I quite like that.
Netflix in the US is great with its variety, loads of documentaries and foreign films that Blockbuster just never would have had, but I would certainly be interested in being able to chat to a human being and rent those sorts of things from a brick-and-mortar shop.
