BlinkBox Reviews

(based on 79 reviews)

181 of 336 people found this review helpful

The good points are that this is a good idea and there are lots of movies for reasonable prices. However, it doesn't matter if the movies are free if it takes 3 hours to watch a 2 hour movie because of jerky, stilted streaming and constant stopping to buffer. We stream a lot from Netflix and don't have any problems with that at all, so we conclude it's Binkbox that's the problem. Until Tesco can solve the problems with streaming we say don't bother.

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.

191 of 388 people found this review helpful

We have reasonable broadband, (consistently 6 to 8 mbits), but buffering issues from the blinkbox site make the viewing experience very disappointing. The Tesco box is just rubbish. It seems to have very little buffer capacity and just cannot cope with any form of network delay. Good idea but extremely poorly executed. I feel its just a waste of money. I would not recommend to my worst enemy. Junk, avoid.

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.

183 of 369 people found this review helpful

Bought several titles to watch while on holiday in Tenerife. I thought that I had bought theses however when i got to tenerife it says that i cannot play the movie, This must mean that I do not own the goods that I thought that I had purchased.

Nobody in customerservices would give me details of how to complain.
This is distance selling and you cannot get a refund. I cannot play the titless that I spend money on.

Therefore you cannot 'own' a movie. How bizarre is that?

DO NOT RECOMMEND AS THEY WILL NOT EXPLAIN IF I OWN THIS OR BLINKBOX.

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.

208 of 409 people found this review helpful

Blinkbox comes as a standard App on Samsung Smart TV's. The selection of films is quite good but I have less than a 30% success rate in watching them without severe technical hitches. I've come to the conclusion that they have insufficient server capacity during peak periods. The service is near useless between 6pm and midnight however if you watch the film you've bought that evening the following morning then it works fine.

I have a 24M business DSL line which rarley slows even at peak times and Lovefilm (another app supplied on Samsung Smart TV's) always works perfectly even at peak hours so I'm pretty sure the issue is with Blinkbox.

All in all until they fix their peak times capacity issue I wont be renting any more films from them.

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.

206 of 407 people found this review helpful

I am used to watching movies and TV online using BBC iPlayer, Netflix or other services and I expected Blinkbox to be similar. I bought a season pass to Game of Thrones expecting an equivalent experience but the quality is so bad it is unwatchable. It is like watching a badly copied video tape from the 1980s. The sound is muted and dull, the colours grey and washed out, with extremely low resolution. iPlayer and all the other streaming services look fine so it is not my connection. I have watched Blinkbox movies before that looked OK so I do not know what has changed, but I have seriously thought of trying to get my money back. I understand that Blinkbox has recently switched to the Microsoft Silverlite streaming software solution, which is popular with movie studios and businessmen because of its very heavy encryption, but hated by users for its appallingly bad quality so maybe that is the problem. Really the the strange square artefacts you see on screen with a bad connection are the size of postage stamps and the background shimmers like a constantly changing mosaic! And the sound is muted and dull as if you have... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.

226 of 424 people found this review helpful

I have had both good and bad experiences with BlinkBox, currently trying to watch Descendants and failing miserably, am about an hour into the movie and it keeps telling me my connection has failed - which it hasn't, tried rebooting but this has failed, so now I am in the annoying position of having paid for movie, but not able to watch the end!!! Argh, Very frustrating. Am trying to watch this through my new Samsung "smart" tv.

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.

214 of 401 people found this review helpful

I rented this film, and started watching while it downloaded. Unfortunately it took many hours to download and we were not able to finish watching the film in one go. By the time the film had fully downloaded and we were able to watch it the 24 hour deadline had expired. I emailed Blinkbox to explain and have had a very negative response.

On another occasion the film playback was very jumpy.

In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.