The business model differs from that of traditional video rental stores that typically let customers pick movies from an available physical library of titles.

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There also is speculation that the tape will quickly be reproduced and be available for rental in video stores.

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It closed stores, cut costs and transformed the video rental chain into a modern-day Netflix-killer.

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