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Posted by TH on 12/04/06 20:00
root wrote:
> I recently finished free trials of both Neflix and Blockbuster video
> rental services. I live in the greater Los Angeles area, about 20
> miles from the Blockbuster center, forty miles from the Netflix site.
> The local Blockbuster rental store is within easy walking distance.
> The Netflix trial was for four weeks, the Blockbuster for two.
>
> Based upon this experience the Blockbuster service was in every
> way superior to that of Netflix.
Well I've been trying the BB service for a few days now and so far I
see no evidence they work 24/7 or on weekends. I also live in Los
Angeles. Two of my first two disks took two days to get here and one
took three. I returned one on Saturday and it still hasn't shown up on
my queue as returned. Granted I've only had the service barely a week
so far, but I'm not impressed in any way so far. (at least during the
Netflix's non-throttling periods, disks would be sent one day, show up
the next)
I tried the service for a month last year and it was awful. Besides not
sending out movies for a week at a time (they say because I only had 14
movies in my queue instead of 30 despite the fact all were 'available
now'), they were sending movies out of order, rather than in my order.
I desperately am looking for an alternative to Netflix (and their
throttling practices) so I hope BB ends up working out and I will give
them every chance to impress me.
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