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If you’ve been reading my articles, you’ve noticed an evolution in my way of thinking about home entertainment and especially how I watch movies.
At the beginning of the year, I disconnected from the satellite, because there are hundreds of channels, many of which offer movies that make you wonder how they got funding and how they were made. Plus, I was spending about $ 1,500 a year, for nothing.
Then I struggled with video stores, their late fees, and the inconvenience of spending $ 2 on gas to watch a $ 4 movie.
Now, I’m experimenting with Netflix, the online service and in your mailbox that entitles you to watch a certain number of movies for a fixed fee. Right now, I’m testing their free two-week introductory offer at $ 14.95 per month.
It allows me to get 2 videos at a time and keep them as long as I want, as long as my subscription does not run out. But, if I return them quickly, they will send me two more from a list that I sent.
Usually according to them it takes a business day for your next set of videos to reach you, once your latest set has hit Netflix, and I guess that takes about a business day too.
I estimate that you can probably get about two “shifts” of product per week, which means 4 videos, or about 15 per month. So each rental costs about a dollar, and maybe less.
Netflix has 60,000 titles in its inventory, including an impressive list of hard-to-find foreign movies and British TV series, including some great spy dramas.
If I’m only interested in seeing a tenth of the 1%, that should keep me going for about four months of viewing.
Given my current state of fickle entertainment, that would mean a long-term relationship!