It really is quite fascinating just how fast the once ubiquitous video rental store industry is disappearing. I don't think this is anything to be especially sad about, as I think the internet "browsing" experience works just fine. If the studios had priced VHS movies at non-insane prices when they first came out it's possible rental stores would've never come into being, or at least not nearly as many.
...adding, I guess there's a digital divide issue here to some degree, though relative to other examples of those issues I'm not sure how important this one is.
