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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6059269" data-attributes="member: 2093">I have no experience with Redbox; my understanding is that you walk up to the box, get whatever happens to not be out of stock and that's that... but I could be wrong. I use Netflix constantly. There are several options -- discs via mail -- quick and surprisingly convenient. No late charges, ever! Never had a lost disc, and only ever had one come to me damaged. I emailed them and they sent a new disc the very same day. Watch online - I very rarely have problems with buffering, but I suspect a LOT depends on the speed of your internet connection. We're fairly high-speed, with cable-service providing our internet, phone, etc... We watch movies and surf on our two iPads at the same time on a regular basis.... so definitely you should be able to use the computer and watch. You can pause and restart easily, and if you stop in the middle, it will save your spot in several different movies (three, I think). And if you switch devices in the middle, your spot is saved no matter where you start up again. Selection - I find it reasonably good. Sometimes they're slow to get a new season of a TV show, and there are a few odd gaps in things that they have on disc but not as instant-streaming. Waiting for new releases on disc or to hit streaming can be a pain; I still haven't watched Hunger Games, for example. Then again, I haven't checked on it in a while, either.I remember rental store problems - like the time they told me I checked out three spanish-language children's videos and didn't return them. Fortunately, it was easy to prove that I NEVER rented spanish-language OR children's movies, since I have no kids! I've never had that kind of problem with Netflix.Oh, and as a third option - check your local library to see what they have in the way of movies; we carry a LOT of popular titles and get them pretty quickly, mostly (there's one company that embargoes libraries for a month after DVD release. Grrrrrr...). Getting on the waiting list is just a matter of knowing when new movies appear in the catalog, and what is being released any given week that you want to see.</blockquote>

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