We have belonged to the Wal-Mart DVD rental program for about a year and loved it. It costs $17.36 per month, and we could have three movies out at a time. It works exactly like the original Netflix which is $17.99 per month.

Sometimes, though, it would be movie night and we would be between movies, so we would have to (well we didn't have to) drive to the rental store. This disrupted the whole beauty and, more importantly, the economics of the on-line rental program.

Because of this we were considering switching over to the Blockbuster program. It was just a few cents more per month, but you got two coupons each month that you could take into a Blockbuster store and get two "free" movies. Perfect! Kind of like insurance. If the weekend showed up and you were between movies, you were protected.

So we talked about switching, just never got around to actually doing it. Well last week Blockbuster dropped their price to $14.99 per month! Now it's a no-brainer. $2.37 per month less than the Wal-Mart program plus we get the two in-store rentals each month.

Last weekend we printed out the 60 movies that were in our Wal-Mart queue, cancelled, and signed up with Blockbuster and just re-entered the movies into our new Blockbuster queue.

Our first Blockbuster movies should show up in the mail today. We have already tried one of the free in-store coupons and it works as advertised. Just give them the coupon and walk out of the store.

I think the $14.99 price is being offered for a limited time only, so if you are interested do it now. They guarantee that price through January of 2006 once you sign up. You can try it free for two weeks if you are the cautious type.