How do you prefer to rent a movie?
 

Give me some reasons for your option if you can. Thank you for partcipating.-smile-

I hardly ever rent, so the online stores don't do me much good. I save money by renting through Blockbuster...and even then if I find a good deal many times it's cheaper to buy.

From Blockbuster Video or another rental shop


Only method I've ever tried

Netflix. The closed place to rent movies is 20 miles away.

Would you ever consider going online?

Damn! Can I start this poll again? I forgot to put in another option.

I just rent from a store since they are within a block of my house.

And pay a monthly fee? No thanks.

I don't rent enough to make the monthly fee worthwhile.


I tend to only rent when I get a good coupon, like my recent 99-cent rentals at Hollywood Video.

How do you rent a movie?
 

I pick option #4 - *Not at all* -smile-

I almost never rented until recently. Now I'm on my first month of Netflix, I like it so far.

Come on, all you have to do is rent more than 4 discs in a month to make it all worthwhile!

I rent all my movies through netflix.

Re: How do you rent a movie?
 

Ditto! :)

This is my answer, too. Plus, with a Blockbuster ~90 seconds away from my house, it's fairly convenient.

I just buy the discs I want to see.

Netflix all the way. I haven't rented a movie from Blockbuster since the Shrek rental card deal.
Netflix [or other online rentals, NF is what I use] is convenient, easy to use, and their selection beats the pants off of BB [or other rental places, BB is the only one within 30 miles of me].
It also allows me to try certain titles such as TV series or anime which are too expensive to buy blind, but that I'm not sure I'd ever watch again.
Generally a movie I'm interested in, or a TV show I know I like, I'll just buy, esp. when movies can be found for ~15 bucks. But I have saved a bunch of money renting things like Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Six Feet Under, Dilbert, that I want to see but don't want to shell out for.
We are debating cancelling NF, though; since I got a PS2 for Christmas, I'm spending more time playing games than watching DVD's. But we're on the old version of the 2-out plan, and the 2-plan now sucks, so I wouldn't want to go back to that. We'll probably stay on--even if I watch 4 disks a month for ~15 bucks, that's cheaper than one title that I might not like. And, again, that's especially true for TV series or anime.

netflix, cheapest, most convenient, legal way to rent

Has anyone tried Movielink or whatever, the legal service that allows you to 'rent' a movie by downloading it, you have X days to start watching it, then X hours to finish watching it.
I wonder how they're doing--I signed up and downloaded a freebie, but I wasn't impressed. I guess once computers make it more into the living room, they'll do better, but for now, if I'm going to watch something, it's going to be on a disk on my big tv where I can sit on my comfy sofa. If I'm on the computer, I'm more apt to play a game or surf the net.
I did, however, use my wife's dvd drive to watch a couple Netflix disks when she was watching one of her shows. I could have actually gone upstairs to the bonus room, because we have a dvd player there too, but didn't think about it. But also, those were 22 minute tv shows, not a 2 hour movie.

I hardly rent these days. When I first started watching DVD movies, I would rent them from Blockbuster. Then I found netflix which is more convenient because I don't have to drive to Blockbuster to return the movies. But you have to pay monthly fee even if you don't want to watch any movies.

Now I just buy the movies I really like and will watch at least a few times throughout, so it makes buying worthwhile.

I have not rented a video since the late 1980's!

Not so. I can rent four movies for 7 bucks on two-for-one Tuesdays at 20/20. Their selection rocks, and they just instated 7-day rentals on all but the newest releases (which are 2-day).

Walk to bookshelf, pick out movie.

milo bloom: "Hey milo, can I rent this?"
milo bloom: "Sure, but if you scratch it, I'll kick you in the nuts"
milo bloom: "You bitch."

Watch movie, return to bookshelf.

I haven't rented a movie in over four years but if I did there's no way I would give Blockbuster my money. Any other company is preferable.

Netflix for most rentals, Blockbuster here and there.

Re: How do you rent a movie?
 

ditto twice.