Thursday, December 30, 2004

Marla Jo Fisher compares Netflix with Blockbuster Online and Walmart DVD in 4-month experiment

Via San Jose Mercury News

BY MARLA JO FISHER
The Orange County Register

"But was Netflix, which pioneered the movies-by-mail business five years ago, the best among the numerous competitors that had sprung up? Especially since Blockbuster, the video-rental chain with 40 percent of the video-store market, has now entered the Internet game?
I decided to find out. I signed up for Netflix, Wal-Mart and Blockbuster and used all three from August until November."
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1 comment:

  1. well the comment on last tango uncut versiion not avaialbe from blockbuster is totaly wrong. I rented it several months ago from BB ONline. same exact version/rating and runtime as listed for the netflix version. Ideed it is listed on BB rental site.

    I think the issue of BB not renting unrated fims harkend back to many years ago, this does not seem like current policy. My locl blockbuster has the same versions of every unrated film I have checked v. netflix.

    As far as "X" or XXX rated films don't confuse them with "unrated". BB and Netflix carry NC-17 and UR (unrated) films, but neither do and niether will likely ever carry X and XXX

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