I saw a reference to Blow Out Video on another thread. Is this a store in NYC? I never heard of it before.

Blow Out Video was located in Times Square, near the Paramount Building. I'm pretty sure it's been closed for a few years.

Yep, it closed years ago. Last thing I bought there was in May 2002, when I bought two Republic Serials on VHS, one of the last places in the city I could find serials.