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Posted by Martin S. on 01/05/07 19:17
And you didn't mention, with BlockBuster you can take the online movies that
were mailed to you and use them as free movie coupons in the local store.
Generally when you do this the online movies will clear your queue the next
day and more will be shipped to you, even though you have the movies from
the local store. This is a HUGE plus over Netflix.
"TH" <thehendersons44@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1168018173.493777.74280@s80g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Well, I finished a trial month of Blockbuster service. Here are my
> comparisons between Netflix:
>
> BB has greatly improved since I tried them a year ago. Last year I had
> about 13-14 movies a time in my queue and there would be long periods
> where NO movie would be sent, despite the fact every movie was
> "available now." There was one entire week where nothing was sent at
> one point and various times when only one would be sent and two open
> slots would just be sitting there. When I canceled and told the guy
> why, he said "you have to have 30 movies in your queue" to which I said
> "what does it matter if I have 30 or 3, if it says 'available now' then
> they should be sent" to which he had no choice but to agree.
>
> This time I had around 10-13 movies in my queue and there was no "must
> have 30 rule" applied. Generally when one would arrive, another would
> be sent by the end of the day.
>
> The issues were:
>
> * They would still take movies out of order. A couple times I had a
> movie that was number 3 or 4 sent despite the fact all the movies above
> it were "available now."
> * I live in Los Angeles so I'm sure the distribution center is close,
> movies should be arriving the next day after being sent, but this only
> happened a couple times. Generally movies took 2, sometimes even 3 days
> to arrive. I can't believe they're throttling new customers, I think
> it's just shabby service.
> * Netflix's biggest advantage over BB is selection. There were still
> new releases and foriegn films that BB didn't get that Netflix does.
> * The one HUGE advantate BB has over Netflix is on TV series disks:
> They will send you TWO SIDED disks. Netflix breaks up everything into
> one sided disks so you have to rent all of them as one disk. I rented
> Miami Vice season 1 disks from BB and got the two sided disks, which
> was great. I rented Miami Vice season 2 from Netflix and got one sided
> disks meaning I had to rent twice as many from them to get the same
> amount.
>
> Of course with Netflix, you get throttled if you have a high turnover
> so it's a lose-lose situation with them. I still hope a third large
> company will get going at some points whose slogan will be "We will not
> throttle" which would bring them lots of business.
>
> Because of Netflix's throttling, I will just be renting from the local
> mom & pop video store for the time being. When Netflix delivers disks
> on time, they are better than BB, but otherwise, you're might be better
> off with BB (you get the instore rental coupon too, as well as other
> store offers) if you're a regular renter and if you watch a lot of old
> TV shows.
>
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