Netflix recently announced some upcoming changes to its subscription rates. The old $19.99 plan that included unlimited streaming and DVD rentals will die. Unlimited streaming will continue for $7.99 a month, while unlimited DVD rentals will cost $15.99 per month. If you currently enjoy streaming and renting discs then your monthly cost will rise to $23.98 starting September 1, 2011.
I know that most of you are Netflix subscribers, but I don’t know if you’re all about streaming or if you also rent physical media. What do you think of the new Netflix plans? Kindly take today’s poll and explain your choice in the comments section!
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I dropped the discs from my account. Easy decision since I had a red envelope sitting on my desk for who knows how long.
I still have three red envelopes in a box (possibly three different boxes) somewhere in my apartment. I believe they were rented in 2003.
I don't mind the discs, its my girl that has an issue. She watches a lot of tv shows and I am more of a movie person, so when we get TV shows in the mail we watch them asap, but if its a movie…….lord knows when she will "be in the mood" to watch a movie.
I don't understand this logic, she can watch like 5 episodes of 30 Rock, or 3 episodes of SVU back to back, but won't watch a movie.
I'll probably be dropping discs, sadly tho more of what i want to watch is still disc based. :(
I only used Netflix discs for old things that I couldn't find in the stores. Now it just doesn't seem worth it. I had a hard enough time finding enough old movies to keep a Queue going anyway.
The streaming content does suck a bit. I don't know when the last time I saw a Newish movie come out on Netflix. The only thing I use Netflix streaming for is Scrubs (but only 4 seasons to go) and for kids movies when my 2 year old little brother comes over.
I don't like using the dvd's anyways. The one I have out now is the same one I've had for about the past four months. I hate switching them out and mailing them. As backwards as it sounds, if I want to rent a movie in dvd format I will go to redbox. Like I told SlickyFats the other day, if it's an old movie that I couldn't rent and otherwise could only get through netflix dvd but I want it that badly, I will *buy* it from rapidshare.
I like to "keep" my rentals that have the Menus and subtitles and everything. Not many rapidshares are the full disc.
I get around 7 movies a week from Hasting's and then at least 2 a week through Netflix because I return them the same day that I get them. But $8 for movies I've seen isn't worth it.
I have never really had a desire to keep the menus and options on most of my movies. There are some movies that I still want some of those options for (every Quentin Tarantino movie, cult movies, etc.) but they are few and far between. I want to watch the movie Suckerpunch, but I don't want to pay for it because it looks like a halfway decent movie but nothing I want to pay for; therefore it was rapidshared. I could care less what options or features the downloaded copy gives me, same with when I watched the movie Repo Men (horrible movie, interesting concept). I could care less what the bonus features are for the movie, I just want the basics.
I think im going to with a combo of netflix for instant stream and blockbuster for dvds since they dont have that 30 day wait period plus i can also rent games eventually too but i'll do the math again to make sure thats the move i want to do.
We already just have the streaming package anyway, because my wife is the one who watches most of the movies and she's awful at sending stuff back. I own a craptastic copy of Wanted because she forgot to return it to Blockbuster and it sat in her purse for 3 months.
Hey people, how's it going? If Netflix is going to start charging for the streaming side of their service, they need to make it relevant (for me, at least). Anything less than new-release movies in HD and 5.1 is unacceptable. VUDU can do it for most of what they offer, why can't Netflix?