“We have over 32,000 titles,” said Shanna Earl, the owners' daughter-in-law and longtime store manager. “The streaming world can't match us.”
Netflix’s numbers fluctuate, but it has about 4,000 movies and about 1,600 television shows in its lineup these days — more than 80 percent fewer than Top Hat.
And, to be clear, that's 32,000 titles at Top Hat, not 32,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. That's new movie releases, classics, family films and tons of TV series.
If video stores seem sort of quaint in 2018, they were anything but when the Earls opened theirs 35 years ago.