I had a little falling out with my local video store (Crazy Mike’s) when the refused to give me credit for an overdue charge I had already paid. The result was that I thought I’d give Netflix a try.
1. Netflix has dang near everything! I have found things in their inventory I didn’t know existed.
2. It takes three days from when I send a DVD back until I get the next one. Minimum. Longer if I send it Friday or Saturday and much longer if they have to ship from a distant distribution center.
3. With the video store I generally had the video in my hands for a week. For the same amount of money I have a Netflix for an average of three days.
4. Netflix has Anime! I love Anime!
5. I can finally see all of InuYasha all the way from the beginning.
6. Except for disk one, which I wanted to see the most badly and which they seem to have lost.
7. You can download movies to your computer from Netflix
8. Although TV shows are short enough to download reasonably well on dial up, and longer movies will download, they tend to come in 5-minute segments, which makes for funky viewing.
9. You can’t just leave the computer running all night and have a Netflix movie download on dial up so you can watch it in the morning. It will still come in 5-minute segments.
10. I love to be able to pull up the little control bar at the bottom of a downloaded movie to see how far through I am.
11. The controls on downloaded movies aren’t precise enough for me to back it up a few sentences to catch the part I missed when a kid insisted I stop and talk to him or her.
12. Since I’m the one with the account I am queen of what we watch and can lord it over my children. For some reason I haven’t figured out yet, they don’t harass me as much about movies when we pick them over the Internet as they did when we walked through the store together.
13. I get just as much exercise walking to the post office as I did walking to the video store. Sure the postman would pick them up for me – if I had a mail box.
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