As Netflix officially ends its DVD-by-mail service, Scarecrow Video is stepping in to fill the void and defend history.
Video rental services don’t necessarily have to worry about rights. After all, you’re paying to rent a copy of the film, not the right
to show that film in public. Companies like Netflix are also beholden to their bottom line. They won’t pay to license a black-and-white“For us, that’s just not a criteria,” Barr said. “Once it’s in our collection, it’s in our collection, we don’t go through and prune it.”But there is an issue with physical media, one that gets worse every year. DVDs and VHS tapes degrade over time. You have nonprofits working tomedia crisis” by digitizing as many cassettes as they can.
Barr said her store has worked to get grants to help digitize some of the rarer parts of Scarecrow’s collection to, but even then, digitizing isn’t a magic bullet. Even digitized content needs to evolve, whether that’s moving to a new hard drive or to a newer file format. The Library of Congress has far more content than Scarecrow, but the U.S.
ideo streams, in addition to watching heaps and heaps of Blu-rays and DVDs and VHS because it’s just a part of our viewing culture now,” she said.f you put Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu together you might have 42,000 titles on offer, including Originals, there are many, many more DVDs in Scarecrow’s collection, and a little more than 106,000 of those are available for the by-mail rental service.
. Those special DVDs and all VHS tapes have to stay with Scarecrow simply because they’re just too valuable to trust to the whims of USPS. Still, Barr said Scarecrow is going to keep it up and see how far they can take their small enterprise. And hey, there should be something special left for the people who make the trek to the store.
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