Topper's TravelsTopper Kain's blog. Topper Kain is a world-famous kazoo player and traditional norwegian food chef. He wants you to use the comments. Wednesday, May 25, 2005In my never ending quest to find things to distract me from doing my schoolwork, I just read an article about how video rental shops are losing market share to online retailers like Netflix. This caused me to think about something that has long bugged me about video stores: why don't video rental stores offer an "on-demand" section for normal renters? It seems like is should be easy for Hollywood Video or Blockbuster to maintain a large stock of relatively obscure movie titles in a central distribution center and then send them to a store when a customer requests one. They already have the MASSIVE inventories required, including movies still only found on VHS, and this would provide an excellent way of nullifying the online repositories main competitive advantage: selection. Of course an even better option from a consumer's point of view would be to digitize all those obscure movies and send them to an in store DVD-RW, allowing the rental stores to beat the online ones on speed of delivery too.Alright, enough of my rants. Time to get back to work. Or sleep, whichever comes easier. .: posted by Topper 10:15 AM
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