My problem with Netflix is that we seem to keep them too long so it doesn't really pencil out anywhere close to it's full potential value. Seeing this thread prompted me to toss our three movies into the mailbox, so they will go out Monday and I'll more than likely have another batch Wednesday. But they have been sitting here for weeks. And last year I gutted the front of the house and had our home theater stuff stored in the garage while I put in new flooring by myself as time permitted, and the Netflix batch we had on hand sat in the garage for like three months, and we probably didn't get more than two dozen movies all year with all the other stuff going on eating up our time.
Now I need to go back to the website and update our movie list. My wife puts stuff on there like Roseanne and ALF reruns (dunno why because that stuff seems to be on all day on channel 53 or whatever it is) so I have to go in behind her and do a little "throttling" of my own to get something I want to watch in the mix. I suppose she doesn't like it opening the mailbox expecting ALF and seeing something like Animatrix in there, but I ask you which is more cool? Besides, the 5.1 surround is there for a reason and that reason is not to make is sound as though Roseanne's voice is coming from all four corners of the room.
*snort* I can't stand Roseanne!
We tend to keep them for a while sometimes, then go through a bunch all at once. It's great for those movies about which you're not quite sure, so if it's a real DOG, you can send it right back and get something else, and you haven't wasted $6 for the rental.
Our son rented a movie while he was here during Christmas; the timing wasn't going to work with Netflix. It was Run, Lola, Run. It was quite strange, but very interesting. It's in German with English subtitles.