With Blockbuster gone, how do you watch new release movies at home?
Yep, well didn’t check that stupid poll box…
Don’t forget my personal favorites - borrow physical copy from public library or stream from pay TV On-demand service
wait until they come out on DirecTV or HBO, or CBS. Or, perhaps that means “I don’t watch new release movies at home.”
A few years back I would sometimes get through Netflix DVD delivery. I lost interest in that after a few months.
I have never attempted any of the other methods listed.
Click on the links helpfully provided by spammers each morning, before they get disappeared. 
Actually, the Piper household relies on Apple TV.
I don’t, usually; but if I wanted to, one easy option would be to rent a physical copy from the Family Video down the street.
If it’s something I kind of want to see but don’t care that much about, I put it in my Netflix queue and it comes up eventually. If it’s something I consider worth seeing often, I’ll buy the DVD/BluRay.
I don’t buy as many blu rays as I used to. I usually save purchases for blu ray sets that I know I’ll watch for years to come. However, I will occasionally buy a new release blu ray that’s on sale as a loss leader on Black Friday.
Otherwise, it’s Redbox. I pass one on the way to work, and it doesn’t seem to be as popular as the other ones in the neighborhood. I’ll always reserve in advance. I gave up Netflix DVDs a few months ago, although I may reinstate it during winter.
I usually do not watch new releases. Considering how cheap (ie free) old movies are (old = anything over 2 years old) I can’t justify spending money on a new release. Unless it is something I really want to see.
If I see a new release I see it in one of 2 ways:
If my mom wants to watch a new movie maybe Redbox, but the selection at redbox isn’t always that good.
As someone else said, Family Video is (for some reason) still in business despite hollywood video and blockbuster being gone (as well as a lot of mom and pop video stores). I have no idea how family video stayed in business, or what their business model is. But I can always rent a new release from there if I really want it.
This is how we get 100% of our movies. Except I guess for the ones that come on TV with commercials.
The downtown branch of the Chicago Public Library has a surprisingly good selection of recent releases. My wife pops in there once or twice a week for books and always checks in on their recent release DVD selection. The drawback is that you have to just see what they have. If you want to get a particular movie, chances are they won’t have it.
I guess if it ever happened that we really wanted to see a particular movie, and the library didn’t have it, then we’d rent it through the Playstation Network.
Choices in order of preference:
Streaming Netflix
Netflix DVD rental in the mail
On Demand Xfinity/Comcast
No-commercials channel(s)
it has to be one I really wanted to see to resort to a commercials-infested channel
If it’s really hot I might consider a theater, but I haven’t been inside one in years.
I will generally buy a copy of a movie I’m interested in. Sometimes I buy them new when they’re released and sometimes I wait until used copies are available. (I’ve bought several new blu-rays in the last couple of weeks because Barnes and Noble is holding their annual Criterion sale. I picked up Being John Malkovich, Bigger Than Life, Cul-de-Sac, Kiss Me Deadly, Like Someone in Love, Rififi, Seconds, Shallow Grave, Thief, and The Wages of Fear - these are all movies I’d have a hard time renting or borrowing.)
Despite the closing of Blockbuster, there are still video rental stores around.
And once in a while, I’ll borrow a movie from the library. I find I’m more likely to do this for a television series.
What about borrowing the blueray from a friend?
There’s also living a jolly life on the high seas.
I’ve missed out on a lot of new releases and didn’t get around to seeing them until they came around on Netflix, eons later. When I subscribed to the discs it was pretty nice - you could read a movie review in the newspaper and decide you want to see it as soon as it came out on DVD, and put it in your DVD queue for “as soon as it comes out.”
But with the streaming only service, you can only add movies to your queue that are currently available to stream. You can’t even look at the DVD catalog, let alone not-yet-released films.
I’ve ditched Netflix for the summer, and maybe for good. I’ve been renting new movies on Amazon and so far I prefer it to the drek on Netflix.
I used HitBliss for a bit to earn money to rent movies on Amazon. I managed to see 4 movies for free that way before they shut down the beta to re-tool.
I don’t. If it’s important for me to see I’d see it in a theater. Otherwise I just wait until eventual Netflix or Amazon Prime streaming. Which doesn’t always happen.
We add them to the Netflix DVD queue and then watch them when they show up.
I’ve netflix and rent from my AppleTV
I also torrent.
Buy the DVD or watch pay cable. Mostly Cable.
Honestly? Pirate.