I don't often jump up and down advertising a service here, because...well, because I really, really hate it when bloggers are sitting there advertising to me! In this case, however, I'm forced to make an exception. Why? Because I love Netflix. I firmly believe that Netflix may very well be the best $20 I spend in a month. And because I love Netflix I want to quite firmly advocate the potential entertainment and savings options Netflix offers.
For those of you who haven't already discovered the wonder of Netflix, it's an online video rental service that quite literally delivers new movies to your door. You pay a set fee each
month to be able to rent (X) number of movies at a time. You keep them as long as you want, and when you're done with them you just stick them in their little pre-paid envelope and drop them back in your mailbox. They travel via overnight mail to the nearest Netflix office location, and within two or three days of returning your last set of movies you have new ones sitting there waiting for you. No late fees, you don't pay for movies lost in the mail, and while you may occasionally get stuck on a waiting list for a new release you usually have almost instant access to today's hottest hits.
month to be able to rent (X) number of movies at a time. You keep them as long as you want, and when you're done with them you just stick them in their little pre-paid envelope and drop them back in your mailbox. They travel via overnight mail to the nearest Netflix office location, and within two or three days of returning your last set of movies you have new ones sitting there waiting for you. No late fees, you don't pay for movies lost in the mail, and while you may occasionally get stuck on a waiting list for a new release you usually have almost instant access to today's hottest hits.Of course, that's not why I love Netflix.
My favorite part of Netflix is their new "Watch Now" feature. They have hundreds of movies that you can stream directly from their website to your computer without having to pay rental fees the way you do with Amazon's Video on Demand. Just click "Watch Now" and you're in business. It's awesome! And since you get a free trial you can take all of their services fora test drive before handing over your credit card info, and you can cancel any time directly from the website.
Thanks to Netflix I almost never buy movies and very rarely pay to rent them, and the amount of time I spend in a movie theatre is whittled to almost nothing because I can get on the list to receive a copy of the DVD months before it's released. I save money, and I'm entertained. There is no down side.
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