How Technology is Changing DVD Rentals

Not so long ago if you wanted to get a DVD rental you had to get in your car and drive to a nearby DVD rental store. This store was filled with aisles and aisles of DVD cases offering the latest releases as well as some of the classics from each genre. You would have to sign up for a membership card that you would more than likely misplace after each use and then stand in line to checkout. After watching the film you had to go back out and drive it back to the store or face a late fee.

Improving upon the physical rental store, online DVD rental companies started to take over the market by slowly offering a great selection for cheaper and were more convenient. One of the most popular online rental companies is Netflix which has a few different DVD rental packages. Each package allows consumers to create a queue of movies they want to see and then they are mailed to your house. The consumer can keep it as long as they want and they even come with a return envelope already with the proper postage. Once set back, your next DVD rental in the queue is mailed to you. No leaving your house, no driving and no late fees. The online DVD rental companies quickly took over the market and forced many popular chains to also form a web presence in order to compete.

Now the next chapter of DVD rentals is upon us. It involves being able to rent movies by downloading them from online to your house without leaving home or stopping at the post office. Netflix has released its newest product which is a piece of equipment you can hook into you television and it will connect itself to the internet. Once connected, you can browse the movie selection and simply pick whatever movie you want to see. Instead of waiting the few days for it to be mailed to you, the DVD rental will be downloaded onto the box immediately and you can be watching within seconds. This newest advance in DVD rentals has removed any inconvenience that the past options have and can be delivered in seconds.

While the DVD rental industry has advanced it makes you wonder where we could end up. It was not too long ago we only had VHS tapes in our VCR's and know we download them from the internet directly to our screens. Makes you wonder how it will work in another ten years!