One of the best methods to watch streaming videos is by utilizing a service known as Netflix. For those not knowledgeable about Netflix, it is a site where one can sign up and for a per month charge you are able to rent dvds that they mail to you. It is easy to also view hundreds of streaming motion pictures that they have in their extensive collection. You can view these streaming movies on your computer or through your TV set using an external apparatus like Xbox or Playstation 3. This is not the same as an eclipse download to the harddrive. One can pick a movie from the Netflix site and directly watch it right on your High-Def plasma or LCD flat panel.
Netflix was originated as an substitute to having to go to the video store. Video rental stores like Blockbuster had the whole market in hand for many years and they knew it. In the event you planned to rent some films you had to get dressed, depart the comfort of the home and drive your vehicle to the nearest Blockbuster.
Once there you would wander around for a while, choose a few videos and pay at least $2 each or more. The latest titles usually cost more and you could just use them for three days, then you were required to return them or else face a large charge. If you have a normal hectic way of life then you were almost certainly late a few times each month and occasionally for extended durations. Often individuals would let somebody use the dvd out to a friend or family member who without doubt promised to return it on your behalf, a generally attractive offer on the face of it. Except when that person vanished and never came back the dvd for a number of months, the overdue fees would accumulate until your statement resembled the GDP of a small foreign island country.
Along came Netflix and their innovative business model. You head to their web site and you enroll for a monthly plan. You pay $20 monthly and you get to use 3 motion pictures at any one time. You go on their website and you select videos from their huge collection which has different genres of videos, documentaries and special interest dvds. You put these dvds into your personal queue and they then send you the first three untaken dvds from the top of your queue. You get the dvds in the mail in a special red envelope, that is also a prepaid return envelope which you just drop in any mailbox. You view the motion pictures at your leisure. There are no overdue fees. When Netflix receives the returned videos at one of their many allocation centers around the country, they will send you the next movie or movies from the top of your queue. It is that easy. If a dvd gets lost in the mail when you send it back, or you never receive it you will not be charged for it and a new dvd will be mailed to you.
Streaming movies were introduced to the website a number of years after the service began. It works the same as your rentals. You pick out from a giant stock of videos and you are able to watch them instantly on your computer or television as streaming motion pictures. This is just about the most convenient manner one can watch videos in my estimation. Every major title is offered from the Captain America super soldier movie, to the last Harry Potter flick soon.