Comments on: Video On Demand Services — Blockbuster vs. Netflix

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:01:59 +0000

With just a couple thousand titles, and not much that’s new, I don’t see the value here if you’re a movie watcher. When you go to the blockbuster store, or the netflix by mail site, there’s plenty of near first run movies. This really only works if access to the streaming version has a big library. Does anyone know how long it will be until the streaming catalog is what it should be for either of these services?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:19:37 +0000

Life without Netflix would be meaningless. But seriously folks… Now you can stream through your XBox OR PS3! Plus the movies they send are there amazingly fast. Great they were… Awesome they are now!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:49:54 +0000

Netflix is a better deal, $8.99/month and you don’t pay per watch. If you want the latest and greatest releases, the Roku now supports Amazon on Demand and more is on the way.

Also Netflix has content you might not see on Blockbuster.

The 2wire device appears to have similar features of the Roku, not sure about the upscaling the Roku support 720p with higher res. in the future.

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By: WizzKidd

WizzKidd — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:19:50 +0000

What about the difference in the content? Netflix is a all-you-can eat subscription model which means that the content is older. You are not going to get The Dark Knight on Netflix VOD, but you will on Blockbuster as they are earlier in the movie release calendar.

Would a better comparison be between Amazon.com and Blockbuster? To compare apples-to-apples? Both are basically pay-per-view while Netflix is subscription based.

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By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:22:48 +0000

We’ve been subscribed to netflix for awhile now and we love it, although I tend to be streaky with how many movies we go through in a month. Some months we turn around the three movies once (or more) per week and then other times we hold the same movies for a month.

And if you do decide to sign up with netflix, you can always through a fellow “ekichick” a bone and use my handy dandy link to sign up.

By: derrich

derrich — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:18:40 +0000

I hear ya. I’ve still got stuff on my DVR from a few weeks ago. :O

By: ms danielle

ms danielle — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:55:53 +0000

if i had more hours in the day, i’d subscribe to netflix. blockbuster B&M has always been a bad experience for me. between tivo, work, twitter (!), blah blah blah, i have little time to sleep