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Post by Skyroniter on Jul 13, 2011 12:42:30 GMT -5
That's the question. I think not. Just don't get enough out of it for such a steep hike. They should have slipped it to me more gradually.
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Post by CBG on Jul 13, 2011 12:55:05 GMT -5
I haven't heard, what's the details?
...oh, wait, here:
I only have the streaming, anyway, did that awhile back to save costs...oh, well.
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Post by Crowfan on Jul 13, 2011 13:17:27 GMT -5
Now I understand why Mike Nelson has gone off on Netflix on his Twitter account.
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Post by Mod City on Jul 13, 2011 15:19:31 GMT -5
I don't use streaming, anyway, so it will be a price reduction for me. I love living in the 90s
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Post by mccloud on Jul 13, 2011 18:08:32 GMT -5
Now I understand why Mike Nelson has gone off on Netflix on his Twitter account. I read those, too. Friggin hilarious.
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Post by TheNewMads on Jul 14, 2011 7:56:17 GMT -5
i have streaming and unlimited 3-at-a-time DVDs, it cost me about 15 bucks a month when i first joined, now apparently i'm paying around 25. i really don't care that much about the streaming video, i may cancel the streaming part although, if i do i can go back to 3-dvds unlimited for 16ish bucks again, which'll be identical to the account i had in 2005. i won't have blu-ray or streaming, but i didn't have either of those in 2005 either.
netflix can probably kick me around a bit because i pretty much use them as a substitute for cable (which i don't have and have very little interest in getting), so they'll have to start charging me around 100 bucks a month before their competition starts seeming more appealing.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 14, 2011 8:07:10 GMT -5
I never used Netflix because I tried to sign up for a "Free" month and they require a credit card. Anytime that happens, I know I'm being scammed. It's like them saying right on the application form "we're scam artists and you deserve whatever we dish out to you." I know when that's the setup it'll be impossible to cancel (and from what I've read, it is) and I know I can't trust the vendor. My winter library does as well as Netflix with keeping up with new movies, and better with foreign films and non-fiction, and I can take out ten DVDs at a time and keep them for two weeks, and it's free, so why bother with anything else?
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jul 14, 2011 16:41:27 GMT -5
I've never used netflix because I tend to watch movies in batches. I won't watch a movie for three months and then I watch 4 or 5 movies in one day because I'm on vacation or home sick. I tend to watch more movies when I'm on vacation when I'm on the road where I don't have reliable access to the internet.
Renting one movie at a time doesn't seem very cost effective. You get a movie watch it a couple of days later then mail it back. A week later you get another one. It seems like you'd get about 3 movies a month for $8.00. I can buy movies for a buck a piece at yard sales.
Streaming doesn't work for me because when I'm most likely to want to rent, I don't have access to the internet. I don't really want to watch half a movie on my laptop sitting in my car in a starbucks parking lot before my batteries give out.
The old rent a movie stores worked best for me. Rent 20 movies in two weeks and then if I don't rent another one for 4 months it doesn't cost me anything. Unfortunately they're almost all gone.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jul 14, 2011 18:16:06 GMT -5
I used Netflix once, during a free trial. Considering I was getting it for free, it was fantastic! But then the trial ended, and they wanted me to pay.
What's worse is they keep sending me these needy, annoying emails saying that I can come back to them, with reminders of how much it costs.
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Post by Father Mannix on Jul 14, 2011 19:45:32 GMT -5
For me it depends on what gets added to the streaming side of things once the price hike goes live. I'm planning on giving it a try, but which (if any) plans I end up keeping remains to be seen.
I'd prefer to just keep the streaming, as long as enough of what I want to see is on there. I use Netflix more for TV shows than movies, so if they add Northern Exposure and a few other things, that's enough for me.
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Post by TheNewMads on Jul 15, 2011 13:47:37 GMT -5
i guess the reason i'm not as worked up about this as some people is that the 3-dvd rate is the same as it was 7 years ago when i joined netflix. their streaming and blu-ray services were all added later and i think the streaming has consumed a lot more bandwidth than netflix had anticipated. if people are complaining about netflix raising their streaming and blu-ray fees, perhaps they're penalizing netflix for adding these services and then realizing the overhead was more than they'd anticipated, in other words, they would have been better off sticking with their original business model.
that said, netflix DOES seem to be turning a substantial profit, when they were having a hard time even breaking even when i first joined them. but if the streaming/blu-ray is too pricey, do what i'm doing! opt for the 3-dvd option and enjoy the 2005 netflix service at 2005 prices. you can't beat that...
i sound sorta like i'm shilling for them but i'll admit i'm a big fan of netflix. i've really enjoyed giving them my business over the past few years and if the streaming aspect of it isn't working out, maybe that's just a sign they should have stuck with their original service.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 16, 2011 3:24:54 GMT -5
I do the library thing as well, but not everything is available there so I supplement it with other sources.
I had Netflix for a while, it was okay - though hated that long wait/short wait thing - which was a pain because I was doing Netflix not for new releases -which I can find anywhere- but for the obscure or older flicks. So I'd have 10 titles or so log jammed and I'd have to call customer service because nothing was being sent (most of the time these "waits" had nothing to do with a lot of people renting them, but because they would have to be sent from somewhere out of my home State). I don't do the streaming thing (have no home Internet).
I switched to Blockheads, there are fewer incidences of that 'waiting' crap (and again, these are smaller, foreign, Indy films I'm generally getting - but unlike Netflix, Blockheads sends them out!). Now all of a sudden ( this month) they gave me unlimited in store exchanges (I don't know why) so I average 6 titles a week from them - which rounds out to about 80 cents a rental. I check out on avg about 5 or 6 from the library as well.
All this viewing is mostly because I'm working on a project. Once that's done I'll probably cut Blockheads and just do the library and supplement with Redbox and the local Hastings. (or maybe I'll do another project. (I have a hankering to explore the film years 1975 and 1999)
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jul 16, 2011 8:35:42 GMT -5
There was a piece on NPR not long ago that said that some studies have shown that streaming services like Netflix now account for at least a full third of internet bandwidth. if that's true, it's no wonder they're having to increase revenue.
I'm keeping the streaming largely because I never get to watch regular shows when they're on, and the selection of TV titles largely works for me. Plus, my kids use it instead of cable.
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Post by Torgo on Jul 16, 2011 9:46:51 GMT -5
I usually just used Netflix for older releases that I had a hard time finding. But the fact that Netflix isn't even allowed half the new titles on release date anymore and they feel a price hike is justifiable is mind boggling. Sure they might be losing money, but I'm used to the old video retail outlet code where older releases are only 99 cents. Why should I accept this price hike when they don't even have a full selection of new releases?
I might still keep it, I might not. My I've already burned through a lot on my list of must see movies that I've missed, and newer titles I get at Redbox since the damn combo chased away all of my local video stores.
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Post by Skyroniter on Jul 16, 2011 13:13:46 GMT -5
I was using Netflix primarily for DVDs of crappy movies. Same for the streaming. I've read complaints that their streaming was limited but I could have gone forever with the choices I found there. I might have been hasty in cancelling them but the huge increase made me grumpy. There aren't any good alternate services available to replace them. I've read Blockbuster is slow to mail and they don't stream for flat fee. Not to mention that somewhere on this forum I once said that next time I visited a Blockbuster it would be with a gas can.
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