‘Time To Go’ For Bangkok’s Last Video Rental Store

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‘Time To Go’ For Bangkok’s Last Video Rental Store

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Tanee Jiriyasin reflects on 32 years of selling movies, music and more in the bygone era of physical media.

 

BANGKOK — As the final purveyors of physical media surrender to on-demand gigabit streaming and torrenting, a longtime business in Bangkok is giving up the analog ghost.

 

Years after it sold off his VHS cassettes by the kilogram, Tha Prachan Road’s Fame Entertain VDO, the capital’s last video rental shop, announced last week that will bid farewell after 32 years in business.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/08/17/time-to-go-for-bangkoks-last-video-rental-store/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-08-17

[james.d]

Nice story, looks very cluttered but I imagine he could pull out a requested movie within seconds.

 

Good luck with the next venture.

[mok199]

very nice article...

Edited August 17, 2018 by mok199

[happy chappie]

It just shows you how much they are far behind.maybe 10-12 years and don't cut me down with that old nostalgic bs.who wants to watch tv in 240 mode on some shit old type.

[rkidlad]

It’s weird - I miss the days of living in the UK with only 4 channels. You’d look thorough the TV guide and get genuinely excited about a movie being shown. You’d sit around with friends and family and watch attentively. Even going to the local video shop and picking a video based off its front cover and synopsis. It was definitely more special. 

 

We’re spoilt for choice now. So many choices yet still can’t find something to watch on many occasions. 

[ThaiFelix]

How times change.  I remember back in the mid 80's I was living with 2 girls in one of those huge run down apartment blocks opposite the old Sathorn Immigration offices in Suan Plu.  Occasionally the girls would want to have a movie night so we would venture down to the ground floor to the local "VDO" shop and pick out a few VHS movies.  The service, at an incredibly cheap price, included a young guy following us back to our room with the movies, a video machine, and a TV if required.   He would set it all up, make sure it was all working correctly, calculate the total duration of the movies we picked and come back after that time and take everything back to the shop!!