Ye Olde Netflix Thread

[Bill McNeal]

Netflix is raising prices 60% kind of

Netflix will no longer offer a $9.99 package of DVD-by-mail and unlimited streaming, the company said in a statement today. Instead, more than 23 million subscribers will pay $15.98 monthly beginning Sept. 1 if they choose both options, or $7.99 for just one.

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“Given the long life we think DVDs by mail will have, treating DVDs as a $2 add-on to our unlimited streaming plan neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs,” Netflix said in the posting.

[Soren]

humph. As long as they keep rolling out new stuff on streaming I guess.

[Bill McNeal]

Yeah, it's kind of tough. I don't want to pay more, but $16/mo is what I used to pay to rent 3 movies at blockbuster so I don't want to bitch about it too much.

[Soren]

tbh, we barely use the mail DVD thing. We get a dvd in the mail and it sits around for days before we get around to watching it. Most of the stuff we want is available streaming.

[MrsVox]

We dropped the mail option earlier in the year, because we were just using streaming for kids' shows and the occasional movie.

[TomatoPie]

Netflix noob. Streaming only. Disappointed that so many choices are DVD only, but for $8 I got this thing on our TV in Brooklyn, our TV in W Chester, TP Jr's iPad, GF Jr's iPhone, my laptop, and we still have one more free device to deploy. That's a good value.

My guess is that they next cut back on the six devices for $8. Maybe give you 2 or 3, then charge more for extra devices.

[Eem]

YE

[Titlehungry]

The Redbox and Blockbuster Express kiosks where you get new stuff for a buck a night makes me lean toward just keeping the streaming package

[BassGuiFloyd]

I guess Netflix and Hulu Plus are neck and neck now? I just dumped cable and am thinking of getting on of them, thoughts?

[MrsVox]

Redbox, with the online reservation, rocks. Some kids' shows are $0.50 right now, so I picked up three for a dollar yesterday, with a free credit I had. The kids will probably watch them again this afternoon before I take them back.

I had one problem where the machine wouldn't return a disk, and I had to drive pretty far to the next machine. But since then, we've gotten more machines around here.

However, nothing tops the experience we had about a week and a half ago. Had to return one movie, and were going to get the kids a movie too. There was this completely trashy family who spent almost fifteen minutes making their movie selection while I waited behind them. I don't know hom long there were there before I got there. There was no apology for how long they kept us waiting, no offer to let us drop off our movie. They were just going through the screens reading/discussing/arguing over each choice.

[GrizzledVeteran]

Until Netflix starts streaming newer movies, I guess I'm sticking with the DVD plan. This blows.

[Woody]

WHY ISN'T EVERYTHIGN PERFECT AND FREE AND EXACTLY TO MY LIKING THE INTERNET WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SOUL FREEING DEMOCRATIZING EXPERIENCE NOT ANOTHER MALLET FOR THE CAPITALIST PIGS TO USE TO BLUDGEON THE PROLETARIAT

[Eddie Jordan]

the streaming collection kind of sucks after a while if you already have Starz. So many Starz movies on streaming instantly.

[Houshphandzadeh]

I disagree pretty strongly. I've seen a lot of awesome movies I never would have heard of because of Netflix streaming. they probably won't have the specific movie you search for, but if you browse around, there's so much good stuff

[TomatoPie]

If you have the Netflix, be sure to watch "Malena" for a thoughtful coming-of-age-in-Sicily-while-that-crazy-Mussolini-is-making-waves flick that gives you many generous glimpses of the incomparable Monica Bellucci.

[Woody]

Are you Mr. Skin?

[TenuredVulture]

Netflix streaming is pretty awesome for watching TV shows--you can watch one or two episodes at a time without clogging up your queue, which is pretty convenient when you're the only one in the house who cares about Battle Star Galactica.

[Barry Jive]

holy #$!&@ the entire X-Men animated series is on instant watch

[CalvinBall]

holy #$!&@ the entire X-Men animated series is on instant watch

just started watching. bringing back memories. ye.

[Barry Jive]

Theme song is still fire