Should’ve checked what colour the tea were wearing first…
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Headspins. Epic fail.
I hate those virtual sponsor boards, horribly disgusting. Bathurst 1000 is the worst 
I see Coles have reintroduced Starburst, although it was only around 5 or 6 skus.
An interesting read on the last Blockbuster store in Australia, and the second last in the world, published a couple of days ago:
Nekminnit
Gonna need a fact check on that one
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There’s Blockbuster Video signage outside a small complex of shops in Warilla, NSW. The store closed years ago. Every time I’m down that way and I’m stopped at the traffic lights outside those shops I think what a valuable collectors item that would be and wonder why somebody hasn’t already tried to take it.
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Reuters reports Ferrari will race in Formula One’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix next week without branding for Philip Morris’s Mission Winnow initiative amid concern about tobacco advertising.
I miss Blockbuster/Video Ezy.
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Can’t you buy a subscription to a movie streaming service for less than the cost of two movies per week?
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You can still head on down to your local council library to have a lend of DVDs free of charge.
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Even this dinosaur hasn’t had a DVD player hooked up to the TV for over three years. I still have VHS tapes and DVDs stored in the house but I’ve embraced streaming and don’t know how I lived without it.
I used to spend hours in the video store looking through the titles in the 1980s and was still receiving a free rental text on my birthday until my local store closed a few years ago. I see new releases advertised on those DVD rental kiosks in shopping centres and go home and find them on a streaming service. Not even slightly interested in using them.
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Are iTunes rentals still popular? Or is that so 10 years ago?
I’d imagine Netflix and the like has had an impact on that, let alone illegal downloads and streaming / pirate copies.
But I’m old school, don’t have SVOD nor Foxtel. And I still enjoy TV shows and movies happily 
Still get DVDs, use free BVOD or iTunes rentals to get by, as well as still watching broadcast TV.
Yep, been doing it for years. But do all libraries offer this? Or are you just assuming?
All libraries I have been to rent DVDs. Theres also op shops that often have cheap DVD’s for sale for cheaper than what a rental would be.
Theres still the odd country town with independent video stores, Colac Video in Colac Vic even moved premises to the main street last year.
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