The prices “to own” are far too expensive for my own tastes, especially as the DVDs can often be bought for much cheaper elsewhere, where they are better quality and don’t eat up my quota.

It gets a pass mark but I’ll be waiting for the range of rentals to improve before I get too in to the service.

For the prices they are charging I could purchase the DVD from http://ezydvd.com.au and have it in a day or two-and have the disk to play with.

And my DVD rental place isn’t so inconvenient that I’ll be willing to pay up to 2 dollars more per rental to have it “instantly”.

They’d have me if:
* The prices for rental were slightly cheaper (and surely running a rental service online would have to be cheaper for them than a brick-and-mortar store), or
* Purchasing a movie was half to 2/3rds the price, or
* They offered a range of movies/shows that were otherwise hard to come by (old classics not released on DVD or TV shows not aired in Oz).

I’m an iiNet customer so am lucky on the quota front. Movies usually weigh in around 1.5GB or above and download within half an hour or so on ADSL2. It’s almost video on demand.

I still use Quickflix to get mailed DVDs for those titles that aren’t in the store – they still have a pretty slim catalogue on iTunes.

Between these options I’d never go into a DVD rental store again I don’t think.

I am on Bigpond Cable internet and movies are ready to start watching within 30sec. I love the fact that there are no late fees (i’ve only missed the end of a movie once when I didn’t finish it in 24 hours) and you don’t have to walk down to your local rental store only to find that what you want to rent is out.

I look forward to seeing what the Aussie store has, as well as the $ comparison with the American store.