Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Help frugal cheapskate beat the system Message-ID: <643@hound.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 14:48:32 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.643 Posted: Tue Oct 2 14:48:32 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 20:05:40 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 10 [.] When I contemplate that I can rent a prerecorded videotape for ($1/day-up), and the asking prices for said tapes (mostly $39 - up, with anything recent at $69-$79-up)n and the proliferation of video rental stores (springing up faster than weeds in the garden), I have the feeling that something is not right. The stores must have a way to buy their tapes for next to nothing. Does anyone know a way for us peasants to do likewise? (buy at low price?) I know that for a reasonable investment I could copy them, but I'd prefer to stay legal. -Dick Grantges hound!rfg