Christmas comes to pacland I switched to BB because I liked

Christmas comes to pacland I switched to BB because I liked the idea of being able to trade in my movies in-store for free, and this actually came in handy when I received a damaged movie from them. I just went to the store, swapped it out for a working copy for the shelves, no waiting! There were problems though. Mainly because BB treats the queue as a suggestion, unless you re watching a TV series. I received the Mad Max movies in reverse order. Still haven t seen the first one. Sometimes it would skip down to a movie 5 places down from the top of my queue, even the top movie was listed as available. This really screwed with me. I d be eagerly waiting for a movie, only to get an email saying they d ship another movie. And if I wasn t really in the mood to watch that movie, I wouldn t, and it d just sit there on my table, sometimes for almost a month, which meant I was wasting my money. I actually forced myself to watch a movie I wasn t particularly interested in seeing, so I could send trade it back in. Watching movies became a chore! A few times I just traded it in unwatched. And several times when I couldn t think of anything in particular I was interested in seeing in the BB store, I just dropped the movie off without getting a trade-in. I got a coupon for a free in-store rental that was good for video games too, but I only ever used them once or twice. I was completely wasting my money. A few weeks ago I was visiting my parents. My sister and her son are living with them while her husband s deployed, and she has a Netflix account. I had considered going back to Netflix because of the instant viewing, and especially when I learned that you got unlimited viewing with one of the unlimited plans. I tried it out on her computer and I loved it. I rejoined for the 1 movie unlimited plan and bought a Roku player. There are tons of instant movies I like. Between watching Netflix with my Roku and Hulu on my PS3 using PlayOn, I decided to cancel my cable subscription, saving me around 70 a month. And I also don t waste as much time flipping channels looking for something to watch. I don t leave movies lying around burning up my subscription value. The amount of instant viewing I ve done has been more than worth 99 a month. I d steer clear of Blockbuster. I liked them originally because you got unlimited in-store trade-ins, but they ve since limited the trade-ins. I still got them until I canceled because it was christmas comes to pacland in. But there s the other problems of not always getting the movie you re expecting, and being limited by what they have in the brick-and-mortar store locations. The free monthly rental coupon is pretty good, if you take advantage of it. Considering that it costs around 8 now to rent a video game, that makes up a decent portion of your subscription cost. I like Netflix mainly for online viewing. The have a lot of classic movies available to watch TCM was one of my favorite cable channels, as well as a few TV series. If you find a movie that you really like, you can keep it in your instant queue and watch it over and over again. It s like owning it. Of course, to take advantage of it christmas comes to pacland have to have a good internet connection, as your connection speed dictates the quality of the movie stream. I have 8 mbs, and to get the best quality on my HDTV I have to have my Roku wired directly to the router not wireless and not have too much network traffic. We re happy netflix subscribers but we did go through a period where every disk we received had problems. We finally bought a new DVD player, which helped a lot. Often the disks are a bit scratched from all the travel in the mail and our cheap player couldn t cope. Netflix customer service was very good though, they even upgraded us for free for a few months as an apology for all of the problems. I used to have them, but cancelled because of throttling and unwatchable damaged disks. I rent from redbox, but I cant even call it renting because there are so many promo codes available for free rentals that I have never had to pay for a rental. I don t watch a whole lot of movies, maybe 3 or 4 a month, so that suits me fine.

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