14 February 2007

Netflix Canada

Was doing some research on this because my brother-in-law is moving to Montreal in a month. Basically, Canada doesn't have Netflix but has a few websites providing very similar services.

Most offer 2-week trials, which are a great way of evaluating their service.


The biggest one seems to be zip.ca. They have 6 membership plans catering to all types of movie watchers. Monthly fees range from $10.95 for the 1 DVD Plan to $49.95 for the 8 DVD Plan. And they have this rather neat feature called ZipRefill that can help people increase the number of rentals they receive each month.


A few others are:
1. Canflix.com
They offer movies in DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray format, and even games for XBox, XBox360, PS2, PS3, GameCube and Wii.

Monthly fees are $21.95 for 3
discs out, $24.95 for 4 discs out, $29.95 for 5 discs out and $36.95 for 6 discs out. For the couch potatoes, they also have an 8-disc plan at $49.95 and a 10-disc plan at $54.95.

2. DVDHype.com.
Monthly fee of $25. Customers get 3, 4 or 5 DVDs out depending on their location.

3. DVDFlix.ca.
Fees start from $19.99 a month for 3 DVDs out and go up to $29.99 for 5 DVDs out and $39.99 for 7 DVDs out.

4. DVD-Rental.ca
Fees range from $22.99 a month for 3 DVDs out to $34.96 for 6 DVDs out. Interestingly, they also offer packages for DVD Movies or PS2/XBox Games at $19.99 for 2 Movies/Games out and $24.99 for 3 Movies/Games out.

5. Starflix.com
For the occasional movie watcher, they offer monthly packages of $9.99 for 1 DVD out but limited to a total of 2 DVDs per month and $14.95 for 2 DVDs out, limited to a total of 4 DVDs a month. Other packages are $24.95 for 3 DVDs out, $28.95 for 4 DVDs out and $34.96 for 5 DVDs out.

6. DVDsToYourDoor.com.
Fees start from $14.99 a month.
Update: Site seems to be dead.
Gives the message:
No web site is configured at this address.

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