"This is a television commercial from 1987 for a company called 'Video Mailbox.' To learn more about the history of Video Mailbox, visit us at:
http://sites.google.com/site/videomailbox/. This commercial is an interesting piece of history. Video Mailbox was one of the first companies to allow the customer to rent an unlimited number of videos via mail. Each subscriber would create a "queue" of their favorite list of titles. When they mailed back their tapes, two more from their queue were sent out. This pre-dates companies like Netflix that today use a similar procedure. The commercial also predicted the death of the video store, portraying a video store owner complaining about mail order rentals."
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http://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/16/video-mailbox/ ...
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