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Hollywood Entertainment Corp., [1] more commonly known as Hollywood Video, was an American video rental store chain. Founded in 1988, the chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was acquired by Movie Gallery in 2005. [ 2 ]
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Family Video traces its company historyback to 1946, when Clarence Hoogland founded the distribution business Midstates Appliance & Supply Company, according to the company. A little more than three decades later, when Clarence’s son Charlie was running the company, it became a distributor for the first supplier of videocassettes for Hollywood stud...
Before the chain temporarily shuttered in March along with scores of other retailers, Family Video ironically had one of its best weekends in years. “The first week it was like, ‘Well, okay, we’re going to be quarantined, it might be kind of fun. Let’s pick up three or four movies and popcorn,’” Dye said. After the stores closed, many of the chains...
To some extent, Family Video is tapping into nostalgia for the era when video stores were the dominant channel for at-home viewing. That era had a meteoric rise and fall. An industry, sparked by hobbyists and then led by mom and pop stores at first, was built out of pretty much nothing over the course of a few years, as Josh Greenberg chronicled in...
Family Video faces a demographic challenge that could ultimately pose its biggest existential test. Its average customer is well over 40, Dye said. For younger customers, “without like a real ambassador, like their parents or a relative or even a friend that is older, to say, ‘Let’s go to a store’ — it just probably doesn’t cross your mind,” Dye sa...
- Ben Unglesbee
Oct 7, 2019 · Blockbuster’s rise and fall corresponded, almost, with the lifespan of an entire industry. Video rental took off in the early 1980s, with mom and pops cobbling together an industry out of...
- Ben Unglesbee
Apr 13, 2012 · Two years after Hollywood Video closed, the ghost movie chain is still asking former customers for money. "I found on one of my credit reports that I had been reported to a collection agency...
Jan 8, 2021 · America’s last major video rental store chain has finally yelled “Cut!” on its brick-and-mortar operation. Family Video, which operates some 200 stores in 17 Midwest and Southern states ...
Apr 16, 2010 · When Hollywood Video failed to find a way to offer consumers what they wanted, the future of what was once one of Oregon’s most successful companies became just another piece of used-up material, falling down to the cutting-room floor.
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Apr 16, 2021 · Hollywood Entertainment Corp (Hollywood Video) started in 1988 as the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster. By 1995, it held 153 stores in 11 states, some operating under the names Video Park or Video Central, but it had plans to triple the number of locations by late 1997.
