blondee Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Far be it from me to start such a trivial thread when many more serious issues to discuss, but where on earth are you supposed to rend dvds/vids when you live in the city centre? After 18 months in Leeds have just moved back to Sheffield City Centre. Previously lived on Devonshire Green and used to rend vids from the shop on the road that has now been closed off because of Forum extension. Been there tonight and it's turned into a non-dvd/vid renting Spar!!! Surely with the new city centre population there must be a captive market? (note to self: possible business opportunity???) And that leads me to another question. Has the increase in city centre living led to an increase in support services? Eg new doctors surgeries etc?????? As a former employee of Sheffield Social Services I know GPs in the city centre are V stretched dealing with homeless, drug addicts, street drinkers and asylum seekers. I am not in any way trying to lay blame at any of these groups of the community, but would like to raise the question as to whether developers take this into consideration, or indeed the council when granting planning permission, As I said, I used to work for the council and know the best way to try and address this, ie write to local councillor. It might not sound revolutionary, but believe me, as a former council officer, I know when a councillor gets on your case, you jump!!!!!!! Otherwise there's a chance the big D (disciplinary) comes into play. Results depend on who the councillor is tho. You either need a big cheese in the ruling party, or a loud voice in the opposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittykat Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 have you tried blockbuster on eccy road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 i might be totally wrong but im sure there was a Blockbuster Rental Vending machine in the NUS Nelson Mandela building like i say, i could have drempt it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ruscoe Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 You weren't dreaming this time RPG - I can confirm it's there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom in Bradway Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 The Central Library on Surrey St has a reasonable selection of DVD's, Vids and CD's to rent. Alot better value than Blockbuster too, bout £2.50 a week or something. Admittedly, they don't have ALL the latest releases. Still worth popping in though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 "Eccy road" and the NMB aren't quite as close to Devonshire Green as the Spar shop was Call me lazy, but most films released these days aren't worth walking that far to rent out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 You're best off finding a contact who can do you copies for a couple of quid, although I certainly don't condone it. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBouncer Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 Why not rent via the web? Or just use iMesh or Kazaa... not that I condone that behaviour... Contact for copies eh... hmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 With DVD writers (for PCs) at only £99 and blank DVD discs at just 75 PENCE each, I think the DVD movie industry is going to have a Napster / Mp3 style battle on their hands very very shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBouncer Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 I reckon it's already started mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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