Even better is when T-Mobile gives out $5.50 in Vudu credit every couple of weeks.

This. I saved all the movies we owned already to an external hard drive connected to a laptop that streams to our TV and then sold the DVDs. Everything new we want we either rent or buy on Amazon. No physical copies to store, and I can download anything I want to watch on any device at any time. Makes car trips with…

I have a small fortune of movies in Vudu. Rent for $4 or buy for (often) $7? I just assume I’ll watch it at least twice.

Counterpoint: for much less money (and much less space in my small-ass Brooklyn apartment!) I can rent a movie from Amazon and watch it when the need strikes. If I think I’m gonna watch it a bunch of times, I can buy it outright.