<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ah, it seems that the extra charge ($70-$130) was the way it used to work in VHS days, but the practice didn't survive into DVD days, and it wasn't so much a special-rental-licensed version as an earlier-availability version.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_rental#Selection" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>DVD_rental#Selection</a><br>
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So I guess the "for rental only" versions of the disks I get from Netflix, for example, are just specifically made for rental companies and sold by wholesalers (possibly at lower-than-consumer cost, and justified with the removal of extra features).<br>
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Mike (who's showing his age by remembering the $80 VHS rental copies)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't forget video discs. Not to be confused with laser discs... </div><div> </div></div></div></div>