dvd netflix in the modern age of streaming it is still a thing and
i'm going to give you five reasons to sign up for it that's coming up on thrifty av.
i want to start by saying that thrifty av has no professional affiliation with netflix other
than i personally signed up for their dvd service recently. i do not subscribe to their streaming
service i don't plan to i might not stay subscribed to their dvd service for very long
but there are some reasons to subscribe i'm going to talk about five of those reasons
i'm also going to go through the fairly easy process of signing up and queue management and
at the end i'll tell you some of the drawbacks to dvd rentals through the netflix service.
let's start with my number one reason to sign up and that is selection for U.S. customers joining
the netflix streaming service there's about 6 000 titles movies and tv shows to pick from
for folks joining the dvd service there are 100 000 titles to pick from so what that means is for
every one title that's available on streaming there are between 16 and 17
titles available through the dvd service huge selection and a lot of those titles are not
available on any streaming service netflix amazon prime hbo disney plus whatever you can
find lists on the internet of movies that are not available on streaming but these are short lists
if they compiled a comprehensive list of titles that are not available for streaming
it would be huge because you have to think about all the instructional titles exercise videos
cooking videos special interest stuff that you can get on dvd netflix that will never be available on
streaming my number two reason for signing up for dvd netflix is bonus features with streaming all
the streaming services have dropped the ball on bonus features that's one of the things that made
dvds cool you could pop it in watch deleted scenes watch making of documentaries listen to audio
commentary tracks streaming services have added a little bit of bonus content but not nearly as much
as what you can get on dvds and blu-rays alright my number three reason you don't need internet i
don't know about where you live but where i live i have issues with buffering when i'm watching
movies and sometimes i lose internet altogether and i can't watch my movies that's not an issue
with dvds so you don't have to worry about how fast your internet is or even if you have internet
with this service all right next convenience and some of y'all are going to laugh at me for
this because there's no way popping a dvd in is as convenient as clicking on an icon that
represents a stream and you're right but dvds can be way more convenient than they used to be
you can use titles like make mkv to turn your dvd into a file and then use a media server like
plex to play those files right alongside your regular streaming content number five cost well
the first month is free so if you cancel before the first month is over you didn't pay anything
for the service now plans start at 7.99 for the basic plan with a basic plan you get one dvd
at a time not very much but even if you go with the 2 dvd at a time plan and add blu-ray it
still costs less than the streaming service does in fact the only way you can make the dvd service
more expensive than the streaming service is three at a time with blu-ray added signing up is simple
you need to pick your plan you'll need a username and a password just like anything else they will
ask for your credit card information even if you plan on quitting before the end of the first month
and of course they're going to need your mailing address so they can mail the dvds to you
once you fill all the stuff out you can start adding movies to your cue
i put a bunch of stuff that's not available on streaming of course that's what i want the most
and that brings me to cue management and it's really pretty simple if there is a weight on a
dvd i stick those on the top and the reason why is that if something is available immediately
well it's probably going to remain available immediately but if there's a weight for a dvd then
you don't know how many people are waiting for that dvd sometimes those short weights
can turn into long weights so i stick the weights at the top and that way when they become available
they're at the top of the queue and then you'll get that first or next after you return whatever
you have really other than that put them in the order you want to see them and you're good to go
all right drawbacks there are some drawbacks you can receive broken disks you can receive disks
that are so scratched up they won't play there is a way to report that and when you report that
they'll either send out a replacement copy or if they don't have a replacement copy they'll
send out the next thing in line in your queue really all you do is lose the shipping time when
that happens but shipping time varies depending on how close or far away you are from a distribution
center if you live close to a distribution center then the latency per se is not that
long you might wait a day but if you live far away from a distribution center you might be waiting
three days for the disc to arrive and then when you mail it back another three days or so and that
means that you're not going to be able to watch as many movies during the month as someone who
lives closer to a distribution center i'm going to do this for at least a month maybe two months
because my queue is getting kind of long and see what i think of it if you have any comments about
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