Given the overhead involved in starting a rental service and having to stock at least twice the physical number of discs to cover both adult and mainstream, I don't know who would enter that market. With Netflix and a couple other big companies having the corner on the mainstream market, you can't really compete and make any money.

If anything, my suspicion is that a company willing to do both mainstream and adult would probably do two separate offerings so they could get two monthly fees instead of one. Or at least charge a premium for adult as an add-on.

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It does look like they have a pretty cool selection of other independent or alternative titles though.

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As far as mainstream dvds I now use the blockbuster freedom pass. I used netflix for awhile which is good, and although cheaper then the freedom pass, there's just something about going down to the video store and picking out a movie I guess. Blockbuster on its own sucks though...IMO. They had to jump on the bandwagon sooner or later.

Anyway when I was looking I did come across this site, rentalflix. In the top far right, go to "adult" and you can browse their whole selection. It's a decent selection, only thing is I haven't seen any feedback for them around here or anywhere else.

If you decide to give them a try, let us know how it goes. I would still consider using one service for everything. There is a coupon code "flix" which gives you 35% off the first month.

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Anyway, I'll let you all know how rentalflix works out.

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Edited by - ken2 on 10/15/2004 1:22:02 PM

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It's $25/month if you want mainstream movies and adult movies, 3 out at a time. That plan also includes games. You do pay a premium for that plan since they are running a promotion for $13/month for just mainstream movies (again, 3 out at a time.) For that plan, they guarantee delivery time and send another if it doesn't get there in time. (They say that $13 promotional price is good for as long as you subscribe.)

Oh yea, I have no idea what the adult selection is. You have to be a member to see it. They say 1000's.

Edited by - HeyNow on 10/17/2004 12:33:34 PM

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Thanks for the heads up on the DVD Barn promo, that sounds like a great deal for mainstream titles. Have you tried the service at all? It says they guarantee shipping in 2 days to my zip, and they seem to have many titles. But from the few reviews I've read their service seems to have its ups and downs.

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idgistephens,

Glad you're for the most part satisfied with rentalflix. But yeah I noticed there mainstream selection is sparse. If that's important to you as it is to me, I would recommend using two services...if you want to spend the money. Unless maybe DVD Barn is worth it, I'm tempted to atleast give them a go for the promo offer w/ just mainstream titles. The $24.95 deal with movies,games,and mature titles sounds good too but you'd only get to rent like one of each on average. That should be 4 out at a time, but oh well.

So far for mainstream the blockbuster pass is the best bet for me. With the 2 out at a time pass I rent like 16 movies a month for $24.95 ($14.95 for the first month). Then again the store is less then 2 miles from my house which helps. But with that and BushDVD it is like $50 a month, so I would like to spend less if possible.

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