Our Netflix Experience

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A new service our family has tried out is Netflix. We choose our movies online and have a running list of what we would like to have sent next. It is delivered by mail, we watch the movie whenever we choose and then send it back in the postage paid envelope. It is so easy and very fast. We send it out one day, they receive it the next day and we have another movie on the third day. New releases may have a waiting list and could take a longer

We live in a town with 1 movie rental store. It has mostly new releases and the older movies are very limited. Plus, I hate going into movie stores! I do order from our library system but that is also limited. We have not been disappointed in the selection from Netflix. If you live in a rual area, you will love this service!

We have the extremely basic cable, and Netflix provides a great selection of movies from the History Channel and Discovery. We are currently waiting on a number of the IMAX films. (Minus the big screen.) We have watched a few old comedies like, You Can't Take It With You and some comedies my husband and I remember from our childhood that the children had not seen. We actually started this membership because I could not get the movie Miss Potter locally. That particular movie had a waiting list and it did not come immediately.

All in all, it has been a good experience. Watch your trial membership though- it runs out quickly and you're an automatic member before you know it. We have the membership that allows us two movies at a time with an unlimited number of movies per month.

So there it is. Happy viewing.