Re: Blockbuster Spends Last Few Dollars on Weak Ad

I don’t have a local Blockbuster.  The nearest one is 25 miles away.  I do have Netflix, and I love it.  There is really no reason to ever go to a video rental store for me ever again.  However, 2 of the video stores that were the closest to me has closed; Movie Starz a few years ago and Movie Gallery a few months ago.  It’s kind of sad to me though in a way, because a part of me enjoyed the spur of the moment stop-ins with the family and browsing around and picking up a few movies and going home to watch.  But I believe that will be coming to an end for everyone before long.  The prices just don’t make sense, especially to people who rent a lot.  I pay about $13 a month for Netflix and can get at least 2 movies a week; if I go to the rental store and rent one movie that’s almost half of what I pay a month for Netflix.  I want the video stores to stay open for sentimental reasons; I just don’t want to play a part in helping do that, LOL.  It’s just impossible for them to remain open with Netflix, Redbox, and all of the streaming options that is available.

I don’t see why anyone would cancel Netflix just based on the 28 day rule.  Like others have said, it’s going to take a new release longer than that to get to me any way because of all of the others who got it first; I’m just not that lucky.  Besides, any movie that I’m looking forward to enough to watch it the day it comes out on DVD, I’m buying it any way.