Only 5 of the hundreds of disks I rented from Netflix in the last year were new releases. 3 of the 8 new releases I watched I rented from the local Blockbuster because I didn’t want to wait for Netflix to ship them because there was a wait. Since I wait for months after the theatrical release to see a movie anyway, waiting another lunar month isn’t going to kill me.
What’s bothersome to me is that some companies are shipping “watered down” versions of the movies to the rental places. If part of the agreement it to also eliminate that (hope it is) then I don‘t mind it so much. Though on general principle and following the slippery slope argument I don’t like this at all. What’s next?
