Singapore, Sept. 20 -- Rida Video Centre, one of Singapore's last video-rental stores, is a bastion of a vanishing age.
Born in the golden era of VHS shops in the 1980s, the cosy mom-and-pop shop in Coronation Shopping Plaza is crammed from floor to ceiling with more than 10,000 titles - from dramas and documentaries to cartoons and art-house films - gleaming beneath the warm lights.
The brick-and-mortar holdout was founded 35 years ago by owner Laurel Khoo and her late husband Ooi Kai Peng, and originally located in Serene Centre.
It has been bruised by the rise of online streaming services, with a 30 per cent dip in business over the past five years.
Gone are the old VHS tapes, laser discs and VCDs: DVDs, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD d...