Davis-area video stores

[ron_newman]

I'm probably the last one on my block to buy a DVD player. But now that I have it, I'm interested in hearing people's opinions of local video rental stores.

It looks like we have three choices: Hollywood Express on Elm Street, West Coast Video across the street, and Blockbuster in Porter Square.
My first impressions:

Hollywood Express -- largest selection, best chance of finding something obscure

Blockbuster - very liberal rental terms: a '2 day' rental is really 9 days, a 7-day is really 14 days. A lot more foreign and independent films than I would have expected, though probably not in the same league as Hollywood Express

West Coast Video -- why is this store still in business? I don't see any obvious reason to go here.

Comments

[denonymous.livejournal.com]

I'll reply to yours as well as some of the earlier comments.

I'm a fan of Hollywood Express. They have a great selection of both current and obscure. And yes, they have porn.

Blockbuster is, well, Blockbuster. My opinion is the same as everyone else's.

West Coast Video has had at least two going-out-of-business sales in the last five years that I can remember. Note that they never actually went out of business. The sale prices were never dirt-cheap, either. I've bought and rented there a few times, it's sort of "eh." Back when I lived in the Square proper, though, I only went there if Hollywood Express was randomly out of something (we were plowing through the Hellraiser series a ways back, for instance, and Hollywood Express was out of part II or III or something).

Of course, now that I live 1+ miles from the Square, I tend to rely on Netflix.