We’ve just signed up for both Netflix and Blockbuster Online. Each has a trial period which I intend to use to compare the two services, but so far Netflix is easily winning, without either service sending anything. The interface is just so much better - with Blockbuster’s site, I’m getting a lot of errors, and everytime I want to go back from a search, I get the old “POST form results again” message box.
Worse than that though, is that practically everything I added to my Blockbuster queue was unavailable, most being “short wait” (up to two weeks) but some being “long” (two to four weeks) or “very long” (over six weeks). I didn’t think I was getting anything either super-popular or obscure, but I thought I’d just try some random average movies too, like Tomb Raider or Resident Evil, and was surprised to see that neither of those was available now. Netflix hasn’t had one movie list as unavailable.
Netflix also has the nice feature of allowing other members of the household to have their own queue without having to have separate accounts. These extra logins can be set to a particular maturity level, but unfortunately most of the stuff Sam wants to get is unrated-but-still-fairly-appropriate anime, so I’ve taken the “PG-13″ block off for him.
Of course, we’ve yet to receive anything yet so I don’t know what sort of turnaround time each service has, but Netflix would have to be absolutely appalling for me to go with Blockbuster instead at this stage, even though Blockbuster is the cheaper option. It’s just not worth saving 3 bucks a month if they never have anything I want in stock.
- SiW
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