I am all for Redbox...$1 per movie is a winner
In the spring of 2010, I signed up for the 2-DVD + unlimited streaming for $14.99 (was $13.99 until January 2011), and I got the Roku box for streaming.
Great service, considering the price and increasing number of titles available.
I watch Netflix more than regular TV.
And, NO COMMERCIALS.
I average between 8 and 10 DVDs per month (takes about 3 business days for each turn-around), and probably 20+ hours a week of streaming.
Netflix = Mainly Movies $8.00 a month
Hulu = Mainly TV Shows $9.00 a month
You can watch a lot of movies instantly with both services to your TV, Computer,iPhone, iPad, etc....
You can dump your Cable/Satellite company, and get these two for $17 a month.
On top of that several companies sell a device for your TV. For instance, TIVO and APPLE are just two. You buy a box (one time deal when you buy a box) per TV. Then you connect your box to your WIFI in your house. It will give you access to the entire web. For instance, youtube and many other sites video sites. You can download all this stuff to your TV here.
I have seen some neighbors with it. It’s awesome and probably a reason so many people are dropping their cable and Dish.
Just an FYI about youtube I read the other day. Over 35 hours of video is uploaded every minute on youtube. That’s crazy if you think about it. I have found a lot of movies on youtube alone. If you enlarge a picture, or subscribe (always free and you can unsubscribe when done watching) videos will not stop after 10 to 15 minutes. They will run whatever time they are. There are a lot of great movies on the web. You just have to look for them. Very few I have not found. At any rate, it will save you a lot of money.
Good luck!
Who the hell is Carl Dangerfield and why should I care what movies he wants me to watch?
Love it. I travel for a living, and watch all my videos of movies and tv shows online on my laptop. There streaming thing is brilliant...it adjusts itself to even the slow crappy hotel wireless, so movies and tv shows never rebuffer. I have never done the mail thing, though I hear its good...just used to watching everything on my laptop, or I connect the laptop to the hotel tv
mame - put me down as loving it! First loved it for access to oldies and generous return time - kind of feel restricted with getting only two at a time but no biggie. Now can get the instant access so am spoiled - and have heard all will be instant play in the near future...
highly recommend (even if the CEO is a commie pinko) because the stuff on TV is crap...enjoy!
I'm moving soon and plan on getting only the bare-bones cable hooked up (if that) as I pretty much only watch TV shows through Netflix and rent movies from Redbox. I'm already hearing chatter that 2011 will be for cable TV what 2001 was for the music industry --the year the party ended.
I have had it long enough now that I have watched about everything I want to so am now watching those old 1950’s sci fi movies I liked at the theaters. Many of them are bad and I mean that in a bad way. Some are extremely good, for instance I just watched “Forbidden Planet” a few nights ago and I would travel all that distance to get to play with the professor’s daughter.
Have you noticed all professors have beautiful daughters in these shows?
Also watched the entire two year series of “The Invaders” it has held up pretty well with a couple of edpisode exceptions.
Not only can we get discs by mail but also watch instantly on our TV or our computers.
The "instant view" is somewhat limited (probably not for many people but as we find very little to like in most recent movies,) we are able to watch both TV shows but also Classics, British Masterpiece features and many, many other shows.
I have it. I love it. I’ve been a subscriber since it started up. Go for it.
Amazon - you can choose to pay for just a movie not having to pay a monthly fee. Movies run about 2-3$ each. Several times I had a rough connection that they picked up on and refunded my money even though I saw no problem.
I refuse to do business with Netflix because some time ago their CEO was one of those idiots who said the rich should pay more taxes. Up his. Damned if I will put any of my shekels in his purse. So I went with Blockbuster and have been relatively satisfied with their service.
Heh... for what they charge??? how could you lose?
Nothing I’ve seen can come close to beating netflix.
Used to watch Hulu a lot, but they are now severely limiting what you can watch for free.
We don’t have cable tv anymore... goin on almost 2 years now without it. STILL don’t miss it a bit (except for fox news)
Money VERY well spent for me.
When the tv has nothing on it, (which is so often) I watch Netflix movies on my laptop. I also get movies by mail because the online selection is not as diverse as the regular.
I’ve had Netflix for years. I used to have the 3 DVD at a time package, which was great. Now, I have switched to the one DVD package because we stream most movies through the WII. Love that too.
I like being able to stream movies on the laptop when traveling. I hate paying the outrageous prices at hotels.
We canceled Netflix because they just jacked up the rates for DVD rentals and we don’t have the bandwidth for streaming which is what they’re trying to herd their subscribers into.
Redbox rentals at $1.00 a night will do just fine for us until technology catches up to us, if ever.
My sons got me a BluRay for Christmas and a subscription to NetFlix ... pretty slick “process” for sending/receiving the DVDs ... and quick. Lots to choose from. And when you surf and there is NOTHING on TV ... the instant queue is great ... you’ll almost always find a movie to watch. I like it, never have been a big movie fan (or fan of the jerks in Hollywood that make them) ... so this is “different” for me.
I love Netflix. I just went there and added the series “Connections”. They’re fast and I’ve had no snags with them for the last year.
I didn’t like them when we lived in Arizona six years ago. The disks arrived damaged way too often and I gave up on their service. We decided to give them another chance and haven’t been disappointed.
We use it everyday.
I might watch a movie on the tv and the wife will watch Korean soap operas on the computer.
The only improvement is would be to make everything available via streaming, as I doubt if we'll ever have Netflix send us a DVD.