Ultimately, it depends how much you're home & how much you're on the road.

I signed up for Netflix at the beginning of the year and absolutely love it -- to the point that I canceled cable TV. I was only home for approx 2-3 nights a month, so with basic cable running $68/mo after taxes, that was $22-34/night for TV. Rather steep price for what amounted to about an hour of TV a month. I have the $16.99/mo plan which gives me 3 simultaneous DVDs + unlimited streaming. I have movies shipped to my current office (which is out of town from my home) and rip them to my laptop's hard drive, then toss 'em back in the mail. Usually have a good solid 6-9 movies on my hard drive at any given time. Then when I'm on the road I'll watch whatever's on my laptop *or* do streaming.

Right now I have 481 DVDs in queue and 332 in Instant Watch/Streaming. Safe to say, I'm not going to be running out of content any time soon.

If I'm traveling in the US and staying at one location for more than a night or so, I'll toss my Roku streaming box in the suitcase so I can watch movies, news, TV shows, podcasts, listen to radio stations around the world, listen to Pandora, etc. on the hotel's TV rather than my lappy's 15" screen.

When traveling abroad, I connect to my company's VPN and stream off that. Haven't run into any issues thus far. Our IT department actually encourages this, surprisingly. IT also has a Slingbox in the rack for anyone who gets homesick whilst on the road. ^