Sharky... Lisa and ezymony both have good points. It seems you two have this under control... but I just want to chime in to say that I have used NetFlix before. They use your email as your user name and to also communicate things to you... mostly new releases and stuff. The password is your password you want to use to the site. Don't worry about giving them your email. It is still a good idea to use free emails (such as yahoo and hotmail) for these things... but this is a legitimate company and I only recieved one or maybe two emails a month... if that at all. After I canceled it they never sent anything else. Just a word about that company though... what they have is a good deal and I liked it... but where I live it would take 5 days for the DVDs to come in the mail. It is free to ship back when you are done and you can keep them as long as you want, but I would pick one and by the time it would come I wouldn't always want or have the time to watch it... so that is why I canceled it. I usually don't have time to even watch movies, so on average the price I pay renting at Hollywood Video is the same as I paid to NetFlix... but if you live someplace where the DVDs will come next day or two days, then it might be worth it... but that is just all my opinion.