Title says it all. This whole Dish/BB deal seems like nothing but untrained monkeys at the controls. I downloaded two Blockbuster apps, one by Blockbuster LLC and the other by Dish. My Dish/BB@Home account doesn't work on either. I was looking for a way to manage my Blu-ray queue via my phone. If the rumors are true, that they're ready to drop disk by mail, then I'm ready to drop BB@Home and go back to Netflix disk by mail. After my $5/mo BB@Home ends, I may just do that anyways.
Seriously Dish, 2 BB apps in the Google play store and neither work with BB@Home?
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I have never seen anything that the blockbuster app was designed to work with BB@Home since it is a different service than what Blockbuster.com is for the most part. I would be nice to have it though.
Yeah, still a major FAIL on Dish's part. Just looked into Redbox, may be where my movie rental dollars will go next. Not sure...
I love BB@Home. I have thousands of movies that I can stream to my box and I can get discs in the mail, and for me the turn around time is pretty quick and we still have a few BB stores here in my city. Having to get up and drive to a redbox and then drive back to return the movie isn't worth my time.
It's usually 4-6 days turnaround for a disk with BB for me. On my 20mile drive to/from work, there are literally 15 Redboxes. I'm a 3hr drive from Chicago, which is where my BB disks seem to be shipped to. No idea why it takes 4-6 days, but it's frustrating. And the fact there is no way to manage the streaming queue via a PC or phone, and no phone app for disk by mail queue sucks.
My discs from NJ get to me in NE PA in about 2 days so I have no problem with that, my problem is the closest BB to me is over 20 miles away and is closing in the very near future. If I want Redbox, there are a several locations far closer but I prefer being able to stream them through computer and receiver. I would also like an easier way to maintain my queue, but I yet to see anything including an app.
I know it isn't ideal, but I have managed my disc queue with my phones web browser. I was able to add discs to my phone by using the website.
For me, it's for the older movies or tv series. I can't seem to find some via streaming. Maybe I'm not looking at the right sites.
