Blinkbox - suprisingly poor. 14 January 2012 Reviewer: Woody Wouldnthe from UK
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We got a £50 Blinkbox voucher with our new Samsung TV, so we thought we'd give it a shot.
There's a lot of movies to choose from, although a fair few do look like car-boot sale, straight-to-DVD releases.
I also couldn't see how to alphabetically sort, although that may be hidden somewhere (movies are ranked by popularity).
We watched Bridesmaids and it was strikingly poor - standard definition and rather murky and fuzzy with artifacts everywhere - the sort of image you'd get on a low-bandwidth satellite +1 channel. Way worse than a DVD.
What made it more annoying was that as we viewed it though our Samsung TV's built-in Smart HUB, there was no option to turn off Motion Plus, so everything moves around in a surreal super-smooth fashion (the 'soap opera effect'), which is massively distracting on movies recorded at 25Hz.
So on the strength of what watched for £4, I'd not recommend it. In fact I'd rather wait for some of the older movies to appear on an HD satellite channel than view them on Blinkbox.
So not good on the strength of what we've seen.
In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.
