What to Look For - DVD Rental Services

Using an online DVD rental service is the perfect way watch the movies you want with no worry of due dates, late fee's, or travel to the video store. 

But what factors make for the best DVD rental service?  We help you work through the confusion to focus on the main benefits that really matter.

DVD Rental Service - A look Inside:

• Movie Titles - Look for services that offer as wide a selection of titles as possible.  Several small niche competitors offer cheap plans but have a very limited selection.  You'll want one that has at least 60,000 titles to keep your available inventory as broad as possible. 
• Time to Delivery - Some smaller services have a limited number of distribution centers.  This can significantly impact time to receive and process your return postage movies before they ship out another title.  Its another reason to stick to the larger plans.
• Pricing & Flexibility - The largest plans offer a variety of price points to help you budget your needs.  We recommend you avoid the 'limited' plans that cap the number of rentals you can have in a given month.  Instead go with one of the unlimited plans - even if you can only go with the 1 or 2 movie at a time plan.
• Added Services - Often overlooked is the bonus services you can find at some of the largest DVD rental plans.  Services include member reviews, community recommendations and movie critiques, and streaming movie trailers.  This not only helps you track the titles you've already watched, but it follows the hugely successful Amazon model of allowing members to post reviews and comments - its also a great way to find other titles you may have never heard of from other members.  Its one of the fringe benefits that help make an online DVD rental service so great.
• Flex Plans - Some plans give you the ability to switch frequently between plans.  Its a nice benefit - especially if you're in the 3 or 4 DVD at a time plan and due to work, family, or travel need to downgrade to a smaller out at a time plan but don't want to lose your rental history or queue. 
• Cancellation Clauses - Be sure your plan doesn't lock you in to long term commitments.  Most plans today offer the ability to cancel within 30 days, but there are still a few old holdovers that have stuck with the longer plan commitments of 2-3 months.  If you prepaid for a plan for a longer term (up to 1 year in some cases) you may not be able to get any funds returned - its the tradeoff for the deep up front discount.