When Steve Jobs announced on January 15th the addition of movie rentals to the iTunes Movie Store AND that all major labels were onboard I was extremely excited.  I saw this as the rebirth of iTunes and it's companion product, AppleTV.

Welcome, and thank you for visiting my blog.  The I am trying to relay a two fold message.  1.  That you don’t have to go to the video store to get quality movies and pay a arm and a leg to get them.  2.  I want to review some of the best and worse movies that are released.  My reviews usually concentrate on if children a able to see them.  If not, I am very frank about it.  Having three children also, I would like to have someone warn me before I sit down and watch a movie with my children.

So, sticking with the format I want to tell you about a few of the online video rental sites available.  Some are very good but some I would not recommend.  Lets start out with netflix.com.

I personally use Netflix on a daily bases and I love the service.  They are fast and preatty reasonable if movies are lost in the mail or the disc are damaged in any way.  They bend over backwards to resolve the issue and to get a replacement in your hand as soon as possible.  They have shipping centers all accross the united states so it usually takes 1 to 2 days to get a movie after it is shipped.  There website is preatty easy to manuver and they have a great selection of movies for any taste.  They also have ondemand movie that you can view, On Demand.  That mean you can view them on your computer without waiting for them in the mail.  This is a great feature.  Netflix is my top choice for online movie rental.  I highly recommend them.

Apple has gotten into the game of online movie rentals by opening a movie rental store through their iTunes franchise.  It is preaty slick and has a lot of promise.  The prices are also very reasonable.

Greencine is the next online video rental subscription service that I want to talk about. The service looks to be very straight forward and reliable. The things that I would be courious about is the payment plans for subscriptions. They have plenty of titles and resources to provide mostly any movie that you would want. But they don’t have a live streaming service like netflix. Nor do they have a store that you can return your movie to after usage. But the plans are pretty reasonable and the mail service is compariable to netflix, and blockbusters, the top two mail online movie subscription services available today.

CinemaNow is the new concept in online movies.  Well, its not new, but back when I first found out about this service is was a pretty new concept.  You see you don’t get a movie in the mail with this service.  No, you are able to get instant gradification with seeing the movie live on your computer.  If you have webtv you can see them live on your TV.  They also have free movies that you can download to your computer and view on any TV in you local network.  That means you can download the movie and transfer it to your XBOX 360 and view it on your TV through your XBOX 360.  This is not a free service.  But they do have a 7 day free trail service.  Personally, I love this service, I just don’t like to have to see the movies only on my computer.  Now, like I said before, if I had webtv I would just stream all day.  They also have all the latest movies.  If adult movies is your thing they also have a adult service that comes with the yearly membership or you can purchase this by itself.  I really like this service and I would recommend it to anyone.

Vongo is another online movie download service in direct competition with CinemaNow.  The main difference between the two is the Vongo proclaims that users are allowed to download their content to play on any TV in their home.  They also only have on subscription rate of $9.99. 

Next is Blockbuster total access. I would say that I like this system of online movie rental.  Blockbuster totes that you can rent there movies online and either return them in the pre-address envolop or you can go into anyone of there store and return and re-rent another movie.  I like this system but doesn’t that go contrary to the online movie rental system.  Although I like blockbuster very much, if I am going to the trouble of using a system online, I don’t want to take time to go to a store to return and re-rent a movie.  Maybe that is just me.

The last two online movie rental sites are IntelliFlix and Dvd avenue.  Both are great programs but the with intelliflix the payment systems is a little messed up.  They offer lower prices to start there system you have to pay a year in advance.  For some this is alright, for some that is unacceptable.  Intelliflix also offers a mature adult section.  Something that most online movie rentals stores will not touch.  DVD avenue on the hand does not have the best looking site, nor all the bells with whisles but they do have a decent selection of movie to choose from.  They used to have a game section also but I guess they gave that up