Blockbuster Prices

This past weekend I was at the local Blockbuster Video store and was surprised to find that the rental price for a DVD had gone from $3.49 to $4.29. My GF and I have been using our Coke Reward coupons at Blockbuster for about a year now. But lately I have noticed that it takes more reward points to get a Blockbuster coupon. They now also have a limit on how many coupons you can get. Our favorite coupon gave you two videos, two 16 oz Cokes, and popcorn for free. The only one we can find now is the rent one get one free coupon. Using that coupon makes the cost for each DVD rental about $2.25. We can go to the local grocery store and rent videos for less than that.

The next logical step is to connect a computer to your entertainment center, so that you can watch movies over the Internet. There are a lot of web sites offering free content out there. Amazon now has a video on demand service. I thought it was cool to be able to view the first episode of Night Rider before it was broadcast on network TV. The problem is that a lot of older graphic cards do not have hd output. You can get an DVI to HDMI adapter, but your graphics card needs to support at least 1920x1080 to be HD. They do make graphics cards with HDMI built in, but only in PCI Express configurations. This can get confusing very fast, but if you can't afford rental fees, it's worth looking into.