new video rental service Will Android are dinosaurs online DVD rental?
few days at Google I / O, Google annual developer conference in San Francisco, the company made a new audience of video-rental service for the Android Market. It will quickly deploy market applications on Android devices: phones, tablets, PCs and laptops. Users will be able to disseminate this movie rentals from the cloud, making it easy to watch your favorite movies on the road.
But is this the best movie-viewing case? Android Market rental prices start at $ 1.99, but most titles cost $ 3.99 for a 30-day movie rental. But once you start watching your movie, the countdown starts: You have 24 hours to watch it before the expiry of the lease
.This is in stark contrast to Netflix, the online DVD service starts at $ 8.99 per month. But for $ 13.99 per month, you can get two DVDs at a time by mail to your door without monthly limit. Suppose you are watching a movie a week (which is about four / month). You would have to average $ 16 per month on your Android device. But with Netflix, you could save 13%! These savings only increase as you watch more movies each month.
is this the beginning of the end for renting DVDs online? Not by a long shot. Currently, these services are much more profitable than Android cloud streaming. And most people prefer to watch a movie on their big screen TV on the small screen of a phone.