So I have been a Netflix member since way, way back. I looked and I joined over 5 years ago now.

The best part of Netflix is that I hate going to rent movies, but love watching them. When you go to the movie rental place it takes forever to decide on what movie to watch, if everyone watching will like it, do they have a copy, etc. Netflix lets me just add moves and then they show up. I started out with the 3 moves at a time plan, but switched to 1 at a time a couple years ago. Now that I have kids it is totally awesome because we get the chance to go to the theater about once or twice a year.

The problem is how to find out about moves. At first I would take a pen and paper to the rental place when I would go with someone (thats when I had roommates). I would make notes and then go online and add the moves that looked good. Now what I find works well is once a month or so I will check out the Apple Trailers page. I watch the trailers and add the movies. The trailers are for movies that aren't even theaters yet, but I add them anyway and Netflix adds them to a “Save” section until they are close to coming out on DVD. So I end up getting the movie about a year after I add it. That is nice because I forget what the movie is about, but I like it because I did watch the trailer. Apple has all the Indie moves that you probably won't find in Blockbuster or Hollywood Video so I get cool Documentaries and Foreign Films too.

The one flaw with this is that Netflix doesn't always have movies in their lists when they are still being made so they need a notes option so I can add moves that they don't have yet.

Netflix is also lame for TV shows on DVD. They treat each Disc as one move so to watch most shows it takes 4 to get through a season. For TV shows we usually just get them from the Library.