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divemaster127:
Im on the blockbuster cheapo plan, its $7.99 a month I get 3 movies mailed to me a month, 3 movies on exchanges & 1 coupon that I give my son for a game. So I think I definitely get my moneys worth
dm

Dartful Dodger:
I have Netflix, two at a time plan ... I like it.

I think my local post office has a direct line to Netfilx because when I return DVDs their they register as returned the next day.  if I put them in any other mail box they take two or three days to register as returned.

ChadTower:

I started with netflix a couple years ago... If I got to about 5 in a month they'd just stop coming until the next month.  It was annoying enough that I stopped online rentals for at least a year.

shmokes:
I know of throttling, where they will lower your priority for high-demand movies if you are going through movies very fast (though I never personally noticed this and I can't imagine that many people were outdoing me, since I was commonly ripping all three movies the day I got them and then mailing them all back the next day), but I've never heard of Netflix slowing down shipments (unless you just had nothing else in your queue).  I've had Netflix two or three times over the years and never had a problem with them (except for a particular two-week period when every damned disc I got was too scratched to play so I'd get 1/2 or 2/3 the way through and be cut short  :timebomb: ).  It might help that I have no desire to see 90% of the most popular new releases.  ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- like Fast and the Furious, or Scary Movie, or Failure to Launch or The Hills Have Eyes, just don't appeal to me.  If Michael Bay or Ron Howard have put their hands on the film, I can be almost 100% sure without seeing it that I will hate it, and most people will love it.  Netflix probably never saw any need to throttle me because most the movies I rent are either relatively obscure, or have long lost any association with the new release category.

shmokes:
P.S.  Blockbuster's official company line, at least for now, is that they do not throttle.  Ever.  Like I say, wasn't ever a problem for me, but I guess some people have had really bad experiences with it (or are prone to exaggeration :) )

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