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Blockbuster Movie Pass Wants to Compete with Netflix

24.09.2011
Over the past few months Netflix has made some controversial decisions--a price hike and an announcement that the video service would spin off its DVD-by-mail service--that have upset a goodly section of the company's customers. The real question is: Can other providers capitalize on Netflix customer dissatisfaction?

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Dish Network's new Blockbuster Movie Pass plan, announced Friday, certainly is aimed at Netflix's dissatisfied customers. The new service from Dish Network offers more than 100,000 movies, TV shows, and games by mail at a flat rate. It also offers 4,000 movies for streaming on your PC at , and another 3,000 for viewing on your television. At $9.99 a month for one disc, this seems like what customers have begged for for months: The old Netflix back at its old price.

In practice, however, things aren't that simple. To get Blockbuster Movie Pass, you have to be a current Dish Network customer or sign up with the service. Customers have complained that splitting Netflix into two services creates unnecessary confusion and extra work, but the Dish Network plan may be an overreaction in the opposite direction.

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