Movies ... Suck
Friday we made the decision to drop Netflix. Yes. That's what I said. Dropping Netflix. I know that next to the TiVO, everyone online seems to think Netflix is the darling of the movie rental industry. I disagree.About six months ago, Steph and I took the plunge and signed up for the $21.99 (3 movies at a time) program. We then happily filed up the queue, and let the movies role in. Things were rocky the first few weeks, but once we got a system down, we were maximizing our viewing time, have the movies out the door, and were (im)patiently waiting on the next round.
However, over the past few weeks we have noticed that it's taking longer and longer to get movies to Netflix, and back again. Last Tuesday, we mailed three movies to them. I just recently (today, Monday the following week), was notified that they have the movies in hand. That's 5 days to get there. And 5 days to get back. By my calculations, if we watch all three movies the day we get them, we'll get to watch 3 movies * 3 times per month (30 days in a month / 10 days round trip). That's 9 movies. Thanks, but no.
Turns out, our local Hollywood Video has a MVP program where we can rent the same items we can on Netflix (I'm sure they don't have all of the oddities that Netflix does, but, well, we don't watch those anyway) -- for $9.99. Yes, we have to wait 6 - 8 weeks for new releases, but that's ok w/ us. We joined on Saturday, and we've already rented about 8 movies [Steph's been ill, and we caught up on everything in our Netflix queue!].
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