Rent Movies Online

These days with so many options of renting movies, it leaves us confused about what is the best option to rent the movies. Gone are the days of going to the video store, and walking through aisles, looking for the movie you wanted to watch and getting dissapointed if you were not able to find the movie you wanted to watch.

If you rent movies online, then here i will tell you about other options that you can consider. If you still don't rent movies online, then this is a good starting point for you.

If you frequently go to movie stores like blockbuster, video-store, hollywood and spend $3-5 on 1 movie rental - then please read the following and start renting movies online. Habit adjustments required (!!)

1. Netflix

By far the most popular online renting place, this one gives you a free 2-4 week trial (depending on your location) for any of their plans. And yes it is free (no strings attached). All you do is sign-up, give ur credit card info (to charge you in case you don't call to cancel after trial period) and select the movies you want to watch. Depending on what part of the country you live in, or how closer you live to one of their warehouses, you will receive the first set of movies in 2-3 days. (Yes, thats correct) !

Once you get your first movie(s) - open the envelope, do not throw it away. Once you are done watching the movie, put the DVD back in the envelope and seal it. (its actually very simple - shown clearly on the envelope). Now just post this in your nearest mailbox. Make sure that you have selected the next set of movies that you wanted to watch (this list is called Queue - and you keep moving/adding to the list, based on what movie you would like to get shipped out to you)

*NEW - Online Watching
As you might have heard that more and more people are watching movies online, netflix agrees too and has started the new online watching feature. If you are a netflix member, then you can login the netflix website and watch any movie from a (now very diverse) selection of movies - for free(well obviously you are paying for the netflix account). This is called instant watching as you can just watch the movie right away instead of waiting for a couple of days for the movies to arrive.

2. Blockbuster Online

If you rent very frequently at blockbuster - then please read this.