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Is Google's new online movie rental poised to end Netflix?
May 12th, 2011 - Posted by Sarah
Will Android's new movie-rental service make dinosaurs out of online DVD rental?
A few days ago at Google I/O, Google's yearly developer conference in San Francisco, the company made public a new movie-rental service for the Android Market. It'll roll out soon to Market applications on Android devices: handsets, tablet computers, PCs, and laptops. Users will be able to stream these movie rentals from the cloud, making it easy to watch your favorite films on the go.
But is this the best movie-viewing deal? Android Market rental prices start at $1.99, but most titles cost $3.99 for a 30-day movie rental. But once you start watching your movie, the countdown begins: You have 24 hours to watch it before the rental expires.
This is in stark contrast to Netflix, whose online DVD service starts at $8.99 a month. But for $13.99 per month, you can get two DVDs at a time mailed to your front door with no monthly limit. Suppose you watch one movie a week (that's about four/month). You'd average a cost of $16 a month on your Android Market device. But with Netflix, you'd save 13%! Those savings only increase as you watch more movies each month.
So is this the beginning of the end for online DVD rental? Not by a long shot. Right now, these services are far more cost-effective than the Android cloud streaming. And most people would rather watch a movie on their big-screen TVs than on the tiny screen of a phone.
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July 28th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
There are many movies not available for streaming that I love to watch. Therefore I have to send for them to view on my dvd. I find that streaming has sound problems and light problems. I have an apple and have upgraded Silverlight, but it's not the same as watching on my TV. I had bought a Roku after I switch to ATT after comcast got to pricey and got an attitude. Alas, Att was so slow it took too much time buffering and losing the internet, I sent back the Roku, cancelled Att and went back to comast gratefully!
I should have kept the Roku though! Hindsight is 20/20!
Now I have Comcast Internet and Netflix, but no Roku!
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