Given what you guys have said about the content addition never really improving (when it comes to new and quality titles), im very surprised that they are still successful at all (and this price hike might actually support my idea on this that maybe they HAVENT been successful lately).
I mean $8 is not much over a months time, but at least when Blockbuster was the king of rentals, you could go down to the store and get any new release you wanted ON release date...Netflix kind of sticks you with a few streaming new movies and a waiting line for new discs that are at times weeks long.
They lost my vote. I will have to go back to less than legal sources of entertainment.
They lost my vote. I will have to go back to less than legal sources of entertainment.
Sorry, that's NEVER an acceptable answer...
I'd have to say I saw this coming. I remember reading a whole ago how Netflix wanted to shift away from mailing DVD's and go streaming only. I suppose this is how they plan to accomplish that, by still having the option of DVD, but at a price point that has little value for the customer. It's as if they are pricing their DVD option out of market on purpose so as to have fewer customers choose the option, and at some point in time in the future, cancel it all together, affecting a much smaller user base.
I never fully understood how they dealt with the movie studios. In order to get the meager online streaming catalog, Netflix agreed to wait on new release DVDs for 30 days...
You may be right, maybe a lot of their "success" was merely smoke and mirrors... We typically turned a DVD around in one day - meaning that when you allow for 1 day mailing time each way, I was getting a new DVD every 3 days or so... allowing for no mail on Sunday, we were easily getting 7 or 8 DVDs each month... so for the $9.99 Netflix was shipping 8 movies two ways - postage has to be at least $0.40 each, so that's about $6.40 in postage each month... leaving $3.60/month for licensing, overhead and profit... plus we watched some streaming content...
I guess they make it up in volume... but regardless, it does not justify a 60% increase in fees.
Have to agree. I'll still be finding legal methods to obtain my movies, the industry will die if we don't support, same as any other.
I'm surprised so many people are dropping Netflix. I never got the DVDs, so the change doesn't affect me, unless they are pressured to make the streaming selection better.
I guess I felt like only charging $1 more for unlimited streaming was, I don't know, too cheap to begin with. I was surprised at the pricing structure when I signed up for streaming.
I would have thought that people would just choose whichever service they preferred most and switch to just that, not drop Netflix entirely.