Do you get new releases as soon as they come out. When do you put in your que to get them quick?
Figure that when a new release comes out, many people want them asap. Many people will get them immediately; others will have to wait a bit. Overall, it is more effective than the local video rental store, because you don't have to keep going back in to check to see if a copy of the new release has become available... as soon as one is available, it gets allocated to someone who wants it.
There is a pretty clear understanding of how allocations happen, now. I'll be glad to overview my understanding of it, for anyone who is interested. I think, though, that it is enough to say that it is a fair allocation scheme. It benefits the typical renter.
All-in-all, I was always pretty satisfied with how soon after a disc was released it arrived in my mailbox.
Also the membership fee is more for bluray.
A few dollars more, if I recall.
Question is the same, do you get the new releases quick or do you have to wait a long time to receive them.
Clearly, there are fewer BD subscribers, and BDs are more expensive to stock regardless, so there are fewer BD discs to go around. I know that commando-renters express some concern that they don't get new releases the day of release, but that's the case with everything -- the folks who are those looking to get more from the system than the typical user are goign to end up disappointed more often than not.
Also if you watch tv shows like Lost from Netflix and say season one has maybe 7 disks, than does each one counts towards the 2 a month or do you get the whole set at once?
Each disc in a set counts as one. Figure that if you choose the two-per-month plan, you're going to get between 3 and 8 hours of entertainment, depending on which titles you select. There is no magic. They've worked really hard to keep things fair.
So confused as to if I want to get it or not. Mostly I want to watch new movies as they come out and not have to wait a long time to receive them when I can go to the redbox and get one same day.
In comparisons many folks have done, between Netflix, Blockbuster Online, Redbox and the local video rental store, Netflix is the best with regard to getting new releases quick. Keep in mind that Redbox kiosks can only hold a certain number of discs (1500 I think, including all titles in the machine), and so when they're gone from that machine you're out of luck until they restock. With Netflix, if they don't have a title you're looking for available locally, but have it in San Diego (for example) they'll send it to you from there.
If all you care about is getting the latest release during the week it is released, then you're always going to be better off going to the video store and buying the disc retail instead of renting it. All the rental systems end up disappointing a good number of people, in that regard, in many parts of the country. You could hit on a place where you get lucky (generally, where very few people want the same things you want, yet the buyers still stock their shelves or machines with what you want in great numbers anyway -- like I said, rare). There isn't that much money to be made in renting a disc once or twice, and then having to sell it used. So the people who do best with any disc rental system are the folks who are not looking at the calendar.
If you want a new release, you'll almost surely get it within a month of the release, with any of these systems. They
vary based on how convenient they each are, and how efficient they are, and how pricey they are. They also vary based on selection: Redbox is generally at the low end, with as few as 60 titles per kiosk (and a smaller percentage of titles with Blu-ray discs available), while Netflix has a catalog of over a hundred thousand titles. If you're never going to take advantage of Netflix's advantages (not having to make a special trip to the store, renting older movies now and again, watch instantly online, availability of Blu-ray Disc titles, etc.) then you might have a hard time seeing the value others see in Netflix.
