Great Ways to Watch a Good Movie

You don't have to go far to find romance, action, and comedy these days. Thanks to new technology and online services, it's now easier than ever to enjoy a wide range of movies at home. Here are a few of the most popular services:

Netflix

Rent unlimited DVDs and watch movies instantly on your PC or TV (but not your Mac) with Netflix. With unlimited rental plans as low as $8.99 a month and more than 100,000 titles to choose from, that's a lot of cheap dates! Bear in mind, the online rental library is only 12,000 movies strong, so you may find yourself ordering DVDs by mail as well as by streaming video on your computer. The good thing is, you don't pay for separate services; they're both included in that $8.99.

Roku

One problem with watching streaming Netflix movies from their e-library of 12,000 titles is that their quality can seem low, similar to that of a YouTube video. To watch Netflix movies at DVD quality on your TV, you'll have to buy a Roku, a little black box that costs $100 and, according to some users, works very easily, requiring almost no installation and automatically syncing up to your Netflix movie queue (the list of movies you want to watch).

Blockbuster

Like Netflix, Blockbuster will deliver movies, from a library of 80,000, right to your mailbox. Like Netflix, there are no due dates or late fees, and shipping is free. Blockbuster does have one feature Netflix does not: you can mail back the DVDs you rent or go to your nearest Blockbuster store and exchange them for up to five more movies.