Movie Rental

[Bullaholic]

Things in the movie rental business continue to evolve. Now Blockbuster is offering its customers the option of turning in postal rentals at it s stores in exchange for new movies. How does that work? Netflix is going to have to up the ante somehow.

I've never been a big movie rental customer. Tried Netflix but could never find enough time to watch the movies so I just lost money and cancelled the service. I hate to rent movies from a movie store because I never seem to be able to return movies on time and late charges fly all over me.

I think the day of the direct-download of 1st run movies will be the wave of the future. What form this takes only time will tell.

One good thing---I took my grandson to see Eragon and it only cost me $4.00 for my ticket. That was really reasonable, but I had to take a loan out when my grandson went to the concession stand.

I continue to buy movies I really like and put em' in my DVD carousel.

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by Bullaholic
I think the day of the direct-download of 1st run movies will be the wave of the future. What form this takes only time will tell.
I agree. Cuban's HDNet company has been working on this concept for a while now. Also, I think that Apples iTV service will also go a long way in furthering these capabilities. The ability to stream and/or purchase movies directly on your TV will replace the regular b&m locations such as Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc.

The new girl's brother works for BB in their marketing dept so I'll have to ask him this w/e what he thinks about these changes...and see if I can get any additional info.

[Phil C]

Last weekend I got the movie Catch me if You Can on Blockbuster but it wouldn't work on my player so I sent it back hopefully never to rent one again.

[Bullaholic]

Originally posted by Phil C
Last weekend I got the movie Catch me if You Can on Blockbuster but it wouldn't work on my player so I sent it back hopefully never to rent one again.

I know the feeling, Phil.....had it happen several times. Washing the CD seems to help in most of the cases. I don't even want to know what is on the DVD discs. Another "joy" of rental.

Watched "Streets of Laredo" again the other night, Phil. One of William Holden's first movies.

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by Bullaholic
Things in the movie rental business continue to evolve. Now Blockbuster is offering its customers the option of turning in postal rentals at it s stores in exchange for new movies. How does that work? Netflix is going to have to up the ante somehow.

I've never been a big movie rental customer. Tried Netflix but could never find enough time to watch the movies so I just lost money and cancelled the service. I hate to rent movies from a movie store because I never seem to be able to return movies on time and late charges fly all over me.

I think the day of the direct-download of 1st run movies will be the wave of the future. What form this takes only time will tell.

One good thing---I took my grandson to see Eragon and it only cost me $4.00 for my ticket. That was really reasonable, but I had to take a loan out when my grandson went to the concession stand.

I continue to buy movies I really like and put em' in my DVD carousel.

The late fees KILL me. :( I like ordering movies on Demand or PPV or whatever DirecTv calls them. It's so much easier than going to the store. :D

I have had both Netflix & Blockbuster. I've cancelled them both for the same reason. Not enough time to watch everything I want to watch and I was just throwing money away.

[Emerson1]

Originally posted by Phil C
Last weekend I got the movie Catch me if You Can on Blockbuster but it wouldn't work on my player so I sent it back hopefully never to rent one again.
You were probably doing something wrong.