Traditionally, we have been renting movies from brick and mortar stores like Blockbuster or Hollywood video. But now we can also rent movies online and stream them directly to computer or television. There are significant advantages to online renting.

We will start with brick and mortar renting. If you decide to rent a movie then you have to decide where to rent from. If there is a movie rental place near you then great! Then you have to get in the car and drive to the rental place. Once there, you have to deal with other customers being there and possibly in your way and try to find a movie that you want to see and that is actually in stock at the time you want to rent it. Then you have to wait in line and deal with mostly rude employees of the store. They will then give you a return date for your rental. After all that, you can finally get in your car and drive back home and watch your movie. But wait!! You are not done yet! When your movie is due back you have to get back in your car and drive back to the rental store to return it where it may or may not be checked in properly. If it is not checked in properly then you will have to either call or go back up there to resolve it or risk paying late fees or even for the movie itself.

This is your classic movie rental scenario dealing with brick and mortar rental store, now lets see the modern day online rental scenario.

One fine evening you came home and decide to watch movie, but at the same time you are tired, weather is not good and you do not want to drive to movie store. Now you go online and go to netflix.com and sign up for one of different plans. The lowest one is 8.99 per month. Now you choose the movie or tv show you want to see and start streaming them online on your computer or divert the output to your hdtv and see the movie on your television. So simple and easy provided you have broadband connection.

I personally have stopped renting from brick and mortar stores. The biggest bricks and mortar store Blockbuster realized this and has already opened the website blockbuster.com which also supports online streaming. So don’t wait and stream online. Happy movie streaming online…

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