Despite the slim pickings on Canadian Netflix, I still say it's the best $8 per month I've ever spent. I can ALWAYS find something to watch and I love that.

Actually Soldier as far as I understand, with all the financial woes, Blockbuster has had to stop doing a lot of that stuff.

Blockbuster is now 3 differnt companies. They still pay certain things. There is a "rental" fee now, all the kiosks and Blockbuster have to pay this fee. blockbuster kiosks also pay a fee to get movies a week to two weeks early, sometimes its more than that. Redbox is starting to jump on that wagon too, its called Premium Rentals and they cost 3 dollars instead of one.

On Demand etc...they are all fighting to get it "first" and you can thank greedy movie studios for this. Netflix simply cant afford to offer movies that soon because of it.

Soldier - I don't think the high prices are going to be much of a factor for too much longer. BBV is for sale and better than balls deep in debt. The kiosks are their last ditch effort at staying alive and I see it failing.

I got a PR email from Blockbuster. They already went under and sold each branch as a differnt company, and have absolutely no effect to one another at all. The three companies are the actual stores, the online (netflix service, and smartphoes) and the kiosks.

Their PR email stressed the fact that if one of them were to go under, the others will not be effected, but they will still work together. Such as in store rentals are earned from online and kiosks rentals.

Another emails explained how Blockbuster pays to get movies early, thus being called premium rentals and cost a little more. I got this email because i complained about their high prices lol.

This is good enough for me. I have Netflix streaming and was hoping they will add more TV shows to their library.

@JL If Netflix is gona rain king they need to do it fast, and like now fast. Amazon already has their sites set on the movie industry and are already sending their force there. They have TONS of advantages over Netflix and if their service gets up and running on par with Netflix, there will be a new big dog. If anything Amazon will completely take over, they have so many better services to offer.

I think for Netflix to get away with it, they should open up Kiosks to offer the newer movies or something. Members can rent movies for like 50 cents, and free after two weeks. Non members have to pay 2 dollars. Good idea?

I'm not entirely opposed to Netflix doing some kind of kiosk like that. Especially if it's a special thing that offers movies sooner than they get them on their service. Of course I'm not really sure how they'd do that. I would figure getting licensing for that would also allow them to rent them out through the mail too.

I'd also prefer that Netflix take the money needed for a venture like that and instead invest it in getting material faster from movies.

As for Amazon, I know they undoubtedly have the resources and power to take on Netflix. I'm just not sure how dedicated they are to doing something like that. They'd obviously have to do some serious beefing up of their library. Probably even get a DVD-by-the-mail service; some people just prefer a DVD. Or Blu-ray which would require even more bandwidth to stream hi-def movies. And some just don't have internet or too slow of internet. Or at least no device to stream to their TVs (cause hooking the computer/laptop to the TV is too tedious and complicated for some).

"Though I think it's too little too late for Blockbuster."

Didn't they just get bought out for $290 million? Someone has faith in the company.

would you really rent porn discs through a service like netflix? gross just thinking about the other people who have touched them before you.

it would have to be a streaming only service.