Thu 1 Feb 2007
Netflix is gradually rolling out its new streaming movie service. Subscribers get 1 hour of streaming movies for every $1 in their subscription price. Those with the $17.99 plan will get 18 hours every month for no additional charge. The selection is a bit limited now and you can only watch movies on your computer (XP with Internet Explorer), but it is a nice extra feature that may or may not keep people from defecting to Blockbuster’s Total Access.
If you do not see a link on your account page, it seems like just viewing this link while signed in will activate the service on your account:
http://www.netflix.com/WatchNow
February 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pm
The funny thing about blockbuster is that they’re selling the whole “you can just get up and bring it back to the store and get a new one” thing like it’s this novel idea, rather than, say, exactly what renting through the mail IS SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING YOU FROM HAVING TO DO!
Next month’s promo: rent online, but we won’t deliver them to your mailbox, we’ll deliver them directly to the blockbuster store! Where you can go pick them up!
August 20th, 2007 at 10:50 am
I have a laptop that I can hook up to my big screen TV to watch the steaming movies with and it is great. I hook my computer up to my sound system to which is a lot better than listen over the laptop’s speakers. The video quality is that of a video but it is free so for the price it is great. I have an old computer I am thinking about fixings so I can do this so I can leave it hooked up all the time.