You are on the right track. Their prices were too high. You can rent a brand new video for a buck at a Red Box. So why drop four times the amount at Blockbuster?

I worked at Blockbuster for a year until this past May and at my location rentals were $5.36 after tax for Blu-Ray and new releases(anything out within the past year). I knew they weren't going to last when they started to cut 4 shifts a week at a store with only 10 employees(my shift was the lucky one that usually got cut).

Their online prices are way higher than netflix. Redbox is fine, but very limited.

There were cheaper chains, but BB made their prices really low until the chains went under. Then they raised them tons. So just desserts.

It was inevitable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Typical scumbag. Asking the public to fund your entertainment. People like you are the reason libraries have become a burden to cities. Do you want us to pay for your dvd player, as well? Libraries should NOT stock movies for entertainment, they should learning institutions. You are no better than the homeless bum who sleeps in the downtown library.

Yes, there was a bomb developed by the RAF and used by the Army Air Corps named the Blockbuster, but I believe the chain is named after the Theater slang. In the motion pictures industry, a "blockbuster" is a movie that is an instant success. I think they are trying to say their movies are blockbuster hits. And at the prices they charge, they should be!!!

B.S.

Hi, John...

Actually, John, I think you'll find the term more appropriately taken from the movie industry itself...a film that was a better draw than all the other theaters around it was called a "blockbuster". And don't you suppose the Blockbuster folks would prefer you thought of it in that way? 8-)

Dude, what planet are you living on? You must also believe that the entire lunar landing was shot in a film studio at Area 51. . .

My local BB has a habit of opening late. I also don't like the 11 a.m. opening on Saturdays.

No the term blockbuster has been used to describe a hit movie for 60 years

John, You are obviously under 40. A "Blockbuster" is a Great Movie Hit and it evolved into other names. Blockbuster is a very appropriate name for a company who rented movies, or "Blockbusters". Movies like "Gone with the Wind", "Dr. Zhivago", "Patton", and on and on.

You show your lack of knowledge when you can only reference things from the past 20 years or so. This is likely why those of us who are older, wiser, more experienced consider those like you with small brains, irrevelant!

Jennifer, you said it all!