What is the primary medium by which you watch movies?

[Mr. Morden]

Since I moved to Perth, the medium I use to watch movies more than any other is actually the entertainment systems on airplanes.  That's because I'm so far away from everything here, that virtually any flight involves flying on one of those planes with the personalized video entertainment things, where you can choose your own movie.  So for international trips to either Europe or North America (which I do at least once a year), you're in the air so long that you can easily watch as many as five movies each way.  And even for flights to Melbourne or Sydney, they usually use those larger planes with the personalized video things, so you can get in one or two movies each way.

In the past ~9 months alone, I've probably watched about 15 movies on airplanes, with about 10 of those coming on my trip to France back in June.  In that same timeframe, I definitely haven't watched 15 movies in the cinema, or 15 on DVD, or TV, etc.

[Mr. Morden]

Netflix (normal)

The (legal) streaming and on demand options in Australia are very limited, though I guess that's slowly changing.  Video rental stores still survive here, and there's a Blockbuster a short walk down the street from me.  AFAIK, it isn't going anywhere any time soon, though all the US ones are closing.  I do rent movies there sometimes, but not often enough to match the number of movies I see on planes.

[Mr. Morden]

Netflix (normal)

The (legal) streaming and on demand options in Australia are very limited, though I guess that's slowly changing.  Video rental stores still survive here, and there's a Blockbuster a short walk down the street from me.  AFAIK, it isn't going anywhere any time soon, though all the US ones are closing.  I do rent movies there sometimes, but not often enough to match the number of movies I see on planes.

What about Quickflix?

I don't think it's as popular as Netflix is in the US, for whatever reason.  Could be that the library of movies that they offer for streaming isn't as large, or something.  Also, many people here have internet plans with a data cap, so you can only download so many GB per month.  Not as conducive to streaming large files all the time.

For my own part, I don't rent movies often enough to make it worth it to pay a monthly fee for that sort of thing.  Cheaper for me to just go to the video store (which again, is just down the street from me) when I want to rent something.