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BEND, Ore. – My family used to go to Blockbuster every Friday. Walking to the store on 19th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, we’d wander through the aisles of DVDs, negotiating what to rent for ...

I know that that streaming services have forever changed home entertainment and that there’s no going back. Netflix, Amazon and the rest have even changed how we talk about home entertainment. We’ve ...

I visited the last remaining open Blockbuster store, which is located in Bend, Oregon. Wandering the movie-filled store felt like a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The location still functions as a ...

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The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix's once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs came up with a concept that obliterated Blockbuster video ...

The thrill and promise of long-ago nights spent venturing out to the video store in search of just the right in-stock movie – the cover art on hundreds of boxes attempting to beguile, shock, or ...