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Is it all DVD now?

In case you didn't know, Blockbuster video is now no longer anything to do with video. Up to the end of June their shops were taking in your old films and crediting your account. They would then sell the films in their shops. We found this to be quite lucrative as they thought the older a film was the less it was worth. Oh how wrong they were. We bought hundreds of films from shops all around the country in their 3 for £3 deal. From the end of July they have phased out video in their shops all together. Some shops have simply destroyed all their tapes and others have encouraged their staff to generate some cash. A couple of lads in the Surrey area have been car-booting the films and the proceeds have gone to the charity Starlight. We took all the remaining films from them and then suggested that they go to all the other shops and collect as much as they can for us. I hope this can be done before all the shops have destroyed their films. One downside is we are going to get back a lot of the dross we were floggin to them a few months back when we were thinning down!

So do you think video is dead? Blockbuster obviously just want to concentrate on new titles for rent. So what do you do if you are looking for an old film? Most of the time high street stores cannot help you because their catalogs are very incomplete and usually only show items available to order in. I get this a lot in the shop from customers who say they have looked everywhere for a rare film but in fact all they have done is to go around the town centre and ask in a few shops, or maybe checked a few charity shops. The key to finding a rare movie is to see a specialist like us. We deal with dozens of online small businesses from around the world who collect and distribute rare films.

If you think video is not dead then please support our new film forum. We want to hear to hear what you are doing with your old videos. Have you just dumped them? A lot of collectors will always keep a decent video collection simply because there are many films that have never been released on DVD. Just take a look at Amazon in the USA, there are hundreds of films on their site which haven't even been released here in the UK on video let alone dvd.

We have an excellent track record locating rare films. Some are quite tricky obviously and others are just a matter of importing from another country and converting to another format if required.

Please visit our film forum and tell us what you think.

posted by Chris @ 10:21 AM