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After blogging about the launch of Blockbuster Inc.'s (NYSE: BBI) Total Access program in November, I was contacted and asked if I would like to try the program in exchange for writing a review about it. I was given a free one-year subscription of the service in exchange for promising to review the service honestly. Now that I have given full disclosure, here are a number of my thoughts on the Blockbuster Total Access program:
  • The program is an obvious improvement. The online service operates exactly the same way as it previously did, but now a rental can be returned directly to the store for a new movie. I found this came in convenient more than once - when I was in the mood to watch a specific movie that was not in my queue or when I had not realized a movie I wanted to see had just come out on DVD. Since the service costs the same as Netflix, Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX), the added functionality is essentially a free upgrade.
  • I found the online movie store well stocked and the movies arrived quickly. My queue, which has around 30 movies in it, says that all of them are available immediately, and I have never had to wait more than two days to receive the next movie in my queue.
  • The only drawback I noticed was from the information I was given when starting the program - the movie database at Blockbuster is slightly smaller than at Netflix (60,000+ to 65,000+). That being said, I did not have any trouble finding any movies, even older movies (Dirty Harry), foreign movies (Ran), animated movies (Appleseed) or indie movies (Paradise Now).

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