#thecheckin: Ep. 27 - Streaming killed the Video Star
But you used to have the straight to video, which could easily be considered a red box film. And then you had these international movies that were probably box office sensations or did, like lukewarm or did pretty well overseas. And then it came here to get a little bit more exposure. And since now we're moving away from physical media, it's not readily available anymore
But because it was in that bin and because I happened to be there and it caught my eye for whatever reason, then I was like, okay, I'll fork out $5, whatever and buy that movie. There are some that I've did that with that I still haven't watched
And I think, again, when you consider the fact that there were three tiers, like, I brought up the theatrical, the television, and then straight to dvd or straight to video home media, there was a lot of different gems that came out of that. Like, budgets have always been very unique and very sparse in many ways for certain industries. And so they know maybe we couldn't get a theatrical release, we'll just put it on home video