While I read plenty of books, reading text materials can be boring once in a while for which I have gone and started appreciating watching more and more DVD's. I love watching movies but they can get pretty expensive--especially if you're only going to watch them once or twice. I have realized that online DVD rentals is the most inexpensive way of watching tons of movies depending on how fast you go through them. Herein, in effort to help people on deciding which provider is the best way to go, I will go through valid points based upon my observation within the last couple of weeks of using the trial periods. Although there are other one's out there, it is pretty clear to the general consensus that Blockbuster and Netflix owns their competition hands down. Within the two weeks trial, I pretty much was able to come up with conceivable points and distinguish a valid winner between the two competitors. Breaking up the differences in different segments allows a more clear assessment of quantifiable distinctions as far as service is concern although some are debatable.
Selection
While I was searching for some hard to find movies, I have noticed that Netflix offers a lot more choices when it comes to DVD compared to blockbuster. Blockbuster is somewhat limited to mainstream DVD's.
Availability
One thing that I dislike about Blockbuster is the availability of some of the more popular movies. It's hard to imagine with Blockbuster's popularity that it doesn't have enough supply of DVD's to rent out to everyone. It's a huge turn off once seeing something like, "Very long wait" because this usually means that movie won't be available for another couple of weeks. With Netflix, there's no such thing as a waiting period.
Delivery
Another reason that I dislike Blockbuster is that it has a 2 day leading time once the DVD has been shipped. Netflix however on the other hand arrives in the mail, the day after it was shipped--and this is amazing. In a month period of time, realistically you'll get at least 3 more shipments from Netflix than Blockbuster--and that is huge! While Blockbuster allows you to exchange 5 movies in their store per month (which is nice), this is not enough to cover the very slow shipping that it offers.
Price
This is an area that is debatable although I think that at varying prices, the price is pretty much comparable. Considering prices from both entities, while Blockbuster allows you to exchange movies 5 times per month, Netflix on the other hand have launched 'Instant Browsing', which allows customers to view movies instantly online--although not all movies can be viewed, their library is growing.
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