Choices UK, the second largest DVD/Video rental chain in the country has gone into administration.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08...cesuk_bellyup/
Sadly it is not the only national music/video chain to go into Administration. In the past four years, we have had Fopp (OK, that was only a small one), MVC, Tower Records (yes, the international chain folded soon after selling their UK stores to Virgin) and Music Zone.
It seems the only specialist national high-street music/video sellers are Virgin and HMV.
Apparently the chains are having problems for two main reasons. One is the fact that supermarkets are selling DVDs and CDs of the chart stuff (any economics students will tell you that a shop needs a few best sellers to draw the punters in, who will then hopefully see and buy other stuff they wouldn't necessarily have gone there for, and the supermarket are cherry picking these CDS and undercutting everyone).
The other is internet shopping.