Streaming movie rental sites?

[matt_unique]

Our local BlockBuster went belly up and our schedules are too busy to take advantage of traditional Netflix services. (We used to get movies from NetFlix that sat on the counter for 3 weeks because we did not have the time to watch them, etc.).

With that in mind I began researching online movie rental sites. I tried three or 4 different sites including CinemaNow, iTunes, and several others. I could not get a single one of them to work. After you sign up you learn you need to download one application after another, configure various settings, etc. All useless to me and a waste of limited free time.

I finally came across a site called iReel.com. iReel was simple and worked! You pay your $4 and start the movie. It streams and plays via Adobe Flash (which most of us probably have already for viewing other web content). I paused several times for various reasons, backed up to see a scene again, etc.

The only problem is a limited selection of titles. Does anyone know of any other sites that stream rental movies via Flash?

Thanks!

 

[lloyds]

Are you saying $4/movie? As I am one of the last 150 people in the world still on dial up it probably wouldn't work for me anyway.

 

[DaveS]

Since I'm "plugged" into dial up, there are only 148 people unaccounted for.... :roll: .

 

[iggy]

Think of the sloooooooooooow motion scenes you can enjoy! (i.e. all of them!)

:shock:

 

[Captains Cat]

Matt, Netflix streams many of their movies now. Not sure how long they've done it but they do it now.

Charlie

 

[matt_unique]

Thanks Charlie.
Netflix requires the same things as the other sites in terms of software, downloads, service packs, etc. I was just so impressed with the Flash based player at iReel because it was easy and just worked without 2 hours of troubleshooting and installation.

I'm sure NetFlix would offer the best selection though.