[user104658]

Heading out to the video rental place was more like a little "event" and thus more exciting. I think we suffer from "too much choice" these days... I mean, on Amazon Prime you can literally rent basically any film that's ever been made, so instead you spend HOURS trying to figure out which film to watch. With the video store the selection was limited, you picked something, and then when you left with it in your grubby paws that was it. That's what you were watching.