THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR l THE SPEC.COM SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012 B1 RICK HUGHES, BUSINESS EDITOR
[email protected] TRAVEL 905-526-3420 TITANIC’S LAST LANDFALL Irish museum walks vistors through final BUSINESS hours of the Titanic B4 Video rental holdouts riding last wave Parkway with husband Vinod, Industry in says sales and rentals of Indian and Pakistani movies and music fast-forward remain strong. “People still come to us because decline we have new movies and classics.” She said customers come from MEREDITH MACLEOD Buffalo, Niagara and Cambridge The Hamilton Spectator for everything from yoga videos and Bollywood movies to prayer Scouring the racks at a video store videos and documentaries of his- is poised to slip into the annals of torical figures. nostalgia alongside slipping a She said there may come a time quarter into a pay phone, combing when the Internet impacts the 10- through albums in a record shop year-old store, but it’s not happen- and lining up for concert tickets at ing yet. “For the most part, we are a box office. good.” Where once video stores dotted Robert Hamilton, chair of Mc- plazas around the city, a range of Master’s communications studies rent-from-the-couch options such and multimedia department, says as Netflix, iTunes and video-on- most households are still transi- demand services has changed the tioning from physical media to way people watch movies. No digital media, but that most people more piling into the car to peruse now find digital more practical. the racks or dashing out at 10:30 at “You don’t have to leave home, night to avoid late fees.