Well speaking of shelf space now, it's no longer needed!

Imagine walking into a brick and mortar, buying membership and being given a USB stick, small size, fits one film, maybe up to three and paying stick rental instead. Plug in to a computer, pay for films, download, watch, film deletes itself after a full viewing.

I'm sure a small proprietary bit of code could do that. Even more draw to it, if the player software is stored on the stick. Just plug it into a TV.

Edit: should mention, this is how rental stores should have behaved when netfkix/redbox peaked their noses out. Sure the back end would be a bit more intricate (server racks stored on site with films), but the far larger library they could hold and move to digital would have seen them compete longer atleast until digital bandwidth got larger for home downloads and then streaming as we have now. They could have been doing streaming long before netflix was dreaming of it

Well speaking of shelf space now, it's no longer needed!

Imagine walking into a brick and mortar, buying membership and being given a USB stick, small size, fits one film, maybe up to three and paying stick rental instead. Plug in to a computer, pay for films, download, watch, film deletes itself after a full viewing.

I'm sure a small proprietary bit of code could do that. Even more draw to it, if the player software is stored on the stick. Just plug it into a TV.