Netflix

It's unexpectedly awesome in the first two days of trying it out. After spending over $10 for movie rentals at Blockbuster, I realized that we might be able to do better using Netflix.

I chose the cheapest unlimited account for around $9 a month. The real plus is that we can view movies almost instantly using our TiVo. I decided not to add the Blu-Ray feature even though we can watch Blu-Ray discs on my new Playstation 3.

We rented Hancock on Blu-Ray and even though it looked great, it wasn't a huge difference than watching a DVD up-scaled for HD. At least not for another buck a month. Talk about a cheapskate!

Signing up for the service only took a couple of minutes and it was only another minute or so to link our TiVo to the service.

I went on the computer and created a couple of queues for DVD's and for instant viewing. We're still waiting on our first movie, but we watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as our first on-demand flick. The quality was very good. I'll be curious to see how good action flicks look.

I've installed one Netflix app on my iPhone and activated the feature in another and between the two I can search, add movies to our queue, reorder the queue and other functions... all from the iPhone. Kickass.

I can already tell this is going to have a huge effect on our movie watching habits.