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How to Lower Your Monthly Tech Bills

by Thomas Houston on August 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM


Axe the movie rental and purchase fees by going online

Whether you're an old-school DVD watcher or a new-school digital video downloader, you can get free movie rentals online in a flash. Netflix offers free two-week trial memberships, and allows you unlimited DVD rentals as fast as you can watch them (and the post office can get them to you). Plus, Netflix now lets you watch select movies immediately online through an in-browser streaming player. For these movies, there is no monthly limit to how many you can watch. How's the selection on these? It's definitely not all-inclusive, but there is a good variety of classics and contemporary film: You can get 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Blade Runner' but not 'On the Waterfront' or the 'Virgin Suicides.' Unfortunately, the streaming Netflix films are available only on PCs (and on TVs through Roku's $99 Netflix-streaming set-top box) now, but we're hoping to see Mac accessibility soon.

You may remember Vongo, and it has since been renamed Starz Play, where you can still download movies and videos fro $5.99 a month. You can find some full-length films and documentaries on both Google Video and YouTube, and Hulu is adding new full-length movies regularly. So the next time you've got some vacation time and want to save on entertainment costs, you'll have your movie budget covered.

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