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‘Death to streamers!’: can a New York video store start a revolution?

Despite the ongoing Netflix era, Brooklyn’s Night Owl Video hopes formats such as VHS, DVD and Blu-ray will see a vinyl-like revival

Either way they’re here, at a small, freshly painted storefront in Brooklyn, to buy movies that you hold in your hand, store on a shelf and watch whenever you’d like – the powerful but fickle newer gods of Netflix, Hulu and Prime be damned. “I’ve lamented for years that this type of place doesn’t exist,” Aaron Hamel, who co-founded Night Owl with his friend Jess Mills, said. Photograph: Wenting GuPhysical media is unlikely to ever regain the heights it had in the heyday of VHS and DVD, but enthusiasts hope it may achieve the kind of surprise second life that vinyl records have since the late 2000s.

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