Posted on 02/11/2006 5:52:44 AM PST by yankeedame
No. From blockbuster you can chose from 3 out at a time, 5, or 8 out at a time. With Netflix, you can choose 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 out at a time. The higher the number of discs out, the more the plan costs.
Does BB offer a lot of choices in Widescreen?
No. Everybody is targeted by it. I was on the 3 out plan and was getting 22-24 a month. (and I wasnt burning them. I was watching them). I liked the service so much, that I changed my plan to 4 at a time, thinking that I would be getting 26-32 a month. Instead, I watched the number of DVDs I was getting drop to around 16 a month. I wound up paying more money to receive fewer DVDS.
Yes. As a matter of fact, at Blockbuster you can find alot of "Special Edition" DVDs that you wont find at Netflix.
BB was slow to adopt and at first when DVD was launching the format would only offer full frame which was detrimental to the format. Honestly, just cause of that alone would never really consider spending one penny at BB.
My problem with Netflix is that we seem to keep them too long so it doesn't really pencil out anywhere close to it's full potential value. Seeing this thread prompted me to toss our three movies into the mailbox, so they will go out Monday and I'll more than likely have another batch Wednesday. But they have been sitting here for weeks. And last year I gutted the front of the house and had our home theater stuff stored in the garage while I put in new flooring by myself as time permitted, and the Netflix batch we had on hand sat in the garage for like three months, and we probably didn't get more than two dozen movies all year with all the other stuff going on eating up our time.
Now I need to go back to the website and update our movie list. My wife puts stuff on there like Roseanne and ALF reruns (dunno why because that stuff seems to be on all day on channel 53 or whatever it is) so I have to go in behind her and do a little "throttling" of my own to get something I want to watch in the mix. I suppose she doesn't like it opening the mailbox expecting ALF and seeing something like Animatrix in there, but I ask you which is more cool? Besides, the 5.1 surround is there for a reason and that reason is not to make is sound as though Roseanne's voice is coming from all four corners of the room.
I'm on it. But they do have an 8 movie plan and even a 2 movie plan. So it's not like there's no choice at netflix.
with tax or whatever the 5 at a time actually runs me about $32
thank you! sheesh
But the MPAA thanks you for drinking their KoolAide.
Assuming this is the case, then "my bad, I apologize."
But please note, I never, ever asserted that Netflix, etc. "SHOULD" violate their agreements with the movie publishers, or any other law.
LOL! You still insist that bait and switch tactics are OK if it increases "profitability." Any scandal is OK by those rules, as they all tend to increase profitability, even one that suckers you out of house and home. Keep throwing that flubbering overweight flacid mud-wrestler (i.e., your brain) into the ring with adults and he's gonna talk alot of nonsense in public. Time to recall that ambassador of poppycock back into your skull for another annual consultation, eh?
I mistated on that.
You're right. Same with me. I have to stick with Blockbuster. Maybe there's a strategy where you put the movies you want at the bottom of your list so you get them faster. Just kidding, I think.
Where's the bait and switch? Simple logic tells you that there is a functional limit to the number of DVDs you can get in a month. All the "unlimited" means is they aren't cutting you off at a certain point, which they aren't, slowing you down isn't cutting you off. The only thing they screwed up on was they didn't put it in the terms of service. When I signed up for NetFlix in 2001 I assumed they would do something like this, it simply made sense to protect their margins.
And as for all your other ad hominems, sad sad sad. Nothing tells people you know the facts don't back you up like resorting to insults.
And by "on that" I mean the copying thing. The availability has been there since I started.
in their old ads, they emphasized the fast turn-around (they said something like 'usually a one day turn-around').
by emphsizing the fast turnaround, and then intentionally delaying the turn around, they were providing a lower-level of service than they were advertising.
in New York we would call that a "rip off".
i quit netflix, and i wouldn't deal with them again.
i do that with any company that advertises one thing and provides something else.
i think you made the point very well.
companies can do whatever they want if it is legal. but netflix was clearly violating the deal that they were offering.
any business that operates like that will eventually run into some bad press and law suits.
*snort* I can't stand Roseanne!
We tend to keep them for a while sometimes, then go through a bunch all at once. It's great for those movies about which you're not quite sure, so if it's a real DOG, you can send it right back and get something else, and you haven't wasted $6 for the rental.
Our son rented a movie while he was here during Christmas; the timing wasn't going to work with Netflix. It was Run, Lola, Run. It was quite strange, but very interesting. It's in German with English subtitles.
No Netflix has other plans for more money to let you have more than 3 movies at one time. Here they are:
The standard plan is unlimited rentals with 3 movies out at-a-time. Available plans include:
8 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $47.99 a month
7 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $41.99 a month
6 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $35.99 a month
5 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $29.99 a month
4 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $23.99 a month
3 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $17.99 a month
2 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $14.99 a month
2 at-a-time (4 a month) - just $11.99 a month
1 at-a-time (Unlimited) - just $9.99 a month
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