Canadian Version of Netflix DVD rentals up and running

[tonyvdb]

I'm not sure how many people in Canada are aware of this but Zip is up and running and offers the same service as the US company Netflic's.
At less than $3 a movie its a great deal. Sadly they dont offer any HD titles on Blu or HD DVD. but its a good start.

[jonathanZ]

Actually we do offer HD DVD and Blu-ray titles (and have been since they came out).

http://www.zip.ca/Browse/List.aspx?f=lid(100659) - HD DVD
http://www.zip.ca/Browse/List.aspx?f=lid(100660) - Blu-ray

Please be patient as it takes a while to load 30 - 120 seconds ... as it lists every single one on one page.

[tonyvdb]

Thanks Jonathan, This is good to see. I may have to give you guys a try.

[MatrixDweller]

I tried ZIP for a month with HD-DVD movies and hated it. I had to pick 20 or more titles ranked 1-20 that I wanted to see and when they sent them to me none of them were even in my top 10. Maybe that will improve once more people have Bluray. I don't know about their DVD stock, but HD-DVDs must have been low.

When selecting movies the pages load painfully slow when viewing a whole genre (ie: HD-DVD). There is a lot of room for improvement in navigation and movie selection.

The movies took about 4 days to get to me after ordering and the postage paid envelopes enclosed were nice.

I'd still rather rent from a bricks and mortar store and get what I want to see or nothing at all rather than 3 movies I really wasn't interested in and only put them on my zip list because I had to.