Japan was one of the very first to jump on the DVD bandwagon. I remember going with my wife into a public library in her hometown, and finding that they would let you borrow DVD's, but only to watch on the libraries machines with headphones in a little cubicle. The actual DVD itself could not leave the building.

In the USA, our public libraries have been allowing the free checkout of CD's, VHS and cassette tapes for nearly a decade now. Recently the government has allotted in the budget to provide an incredible number of new releases on DVD for free checkout.

Look out Blockbusters!

There's Free DVD checkout at our public library!