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Originally Posted by camoor Don't worry I have the worst cable deal of all time. Because I bought high-speed internet they force me to get limited cable for 18 bucks. If I don't they' just jack up my cable internet price for the difference. I'm paying 65 bones a month to the cable company. I don't even have the cable box because I don't want to watch their shitty stations, I just want the internet. Compared to my dishonest and monopolistic cable company, Netflix is still a good deal.

Yeah, most cable companies are like that. Either pay for cable TV with your internet, or pay more for internet anyway.

Comcast was always like that when I had them. I didn't mind so much as the only places I had their internet were places where they were my only TV option as well (places I couldn't have satellite) and I have to have cable or satellite for sports personally anyway.

Originally Posted by 007 Well, it looks like I'm going down to streaming only by September. I was more than happy to pay the extra $2 a month in the off chance I wanted a DVD, but $8? Yeah, no. No. I understand it, but it still sucks. Netflix discovered that they make more profit when they send out less DVDs, so this encourages people to either stop getting DVDs or pay more to cover the mailing costs. Netflix changes their pricing scheme a lot, but this is a comparatively huge jump from what they've done in the past. You know, I'd complain more, but that copy of The Expendables that's been sitting unwatched in my mail pile since February sort of underlines that this really probably isn't too big a deal for me.

This is exactly my situation...we've had one dvd out for months and just never got around to watching it. So, streaming only it is. Might look at Hulu Plus more seriously now.

Considering they didn't even wait a year to spring yet another pricing structure and increase on us Netflix users I'll be canceling my subscription of DVD and streaming. Back in November the increase was more of an annoyance and wasn't really that big of a deal, but this rate increase just doesn't justify it, even more so since I don't really get new releases right away and their instant streaming has been meh.

My sister loves streaming for her children so I'll just share her account on my PS3 and I'll just have to deal with seeing iCarly, and Hanna Montana in my recommendations. So Netflix will lose $10 a month from me starting in September.

60% price increase.... Man Netflix can eat a Dick Sandwich!

I usually don't complain when there is a price hike on services like this because 95% of the time they come with some type of added feature, or the price hike is a minimal one like a dollar or 2 a month. In this case it's damn near doubling your cost for the same shit.... There is no way to justify this. I like being able to get new to fairly new movies on dvd and my daughter streams shit like mad, but I can not justify spending this much for this service now. I guess I will have to do the same as what alot of people are doing and cut the dvd's out and just go with redbox or something like that. Right about now I wish Blockbuster's service had streaming because then that would be the perfect service due to also having games......

Originally Posted by dmaul1114 Nah, the prices have been stable for a while I think. The last change I think was just adding the $7.99 streaming only plan. I don't think the changed the DVD play prices at that time. Before that I think the changes were the Blu-ray fee jumping from $1 to $1 plus $1 per disc out at at time. So in some sense they were due for a price increase. The problem is this was just a damn dramatic one going from $9.99 for 1 dvd and streaming to $15.98 for the same. I'd have less of an issue if they just raised all plans by a buck or two.

Prices raised around December 2010 as my 2-at-a-time went up $1 Dec 6th.

Un-ing-believable. Netflix can suck my cock, I'm cancelling all together. I like having both services, I usually watch at least one DVD from them a week and I also stream movies and tv shows online a lot. But no way am I doing that at a $6 increase in price. I'll just torrent everything, it.

Man, this really blows. I get my parents a Netflix subscription every year for Christmas (3 DVDs + unlimited streaming + blu-ray upgrade) and this is really going to add to the cost for something they really like but only use in spurts. Of course I leech off of the streaming and use it all the time and I don't want to give that up.

Well, I had been contemplating switching back to a discs plan after being streaming only for about 6 months now but that'll cost effectively an additional $8 for just one disc at a time. that.

Originally Posted by guardian_owl Prices raised around December 2010 as my 2-at-a-time went up $1 Dec 6th.

Ah, that's right, they did raise things $1 last fall/winter. I member the one at at time jumping from $8.99 to $9.99 now.


As for switching to Redbox--for me it's just not worth the hassle of having to drive to pick it up and go back the next day to return it (or get charged for another day). If I had one closer to my condo or work place (or along the way inbetween) I'd consider it. But the closest one is a mile or two away at a grocery store a shop at, and it's opposite direction of work and I only go that way once a week or so when I buy groceries.

Oh well, I still think $9.99 plus tax to get through a disc or two a week without leaving the house is a good deal. I just hate having to give up the streaming as I do really like having that option available--but not enough to pay an extra $8 a month for it.

This is ridiculous. I watch Netflix streaming fairly often --- mainly for its TV offerings and some offbeat movies that I didn't even know about. But there's no justification for this big of a hike. They should at least be offering current subscribers some sort of discount for their loyalty.

IF I decide to stay at all, it'll be for streaming because the majority of new releases still have a 28-day window before they even get to Netflix, which is another reason this split is an insane idea. I'll rent DVDs/Blu-Rays elsewhere.

This is dumb on their part, I just got my renew notice for Amazon Student now I get Amazon Prime for 50% off for a year. From what I understand they offer the same stuff on their streaming that Netflix does. Looks like I'm going to be dropping Netflix now. Congrats Netflix after you kept raising prices you finally found one I'm not going to bite on.

I am just going to stick with just streaming but with more and more streaming services popping up I may jump ship when something better comes along but for now $7.99 is fine with me.

Originally Posted by silentevil This is dumb on their part, I just got my renew notice for Amazon Student now I get Amazon Prime for 50% off for a year. From what I understand they offer the same stuff on their streaming that Netflix does.

Unless it's changed, or I'm remembering wrong, I don't think student Amazon prime accounts get the streaming.

But maybe that's changing now that they're charging a discounted rate rather than having it free.

Originally Posted by dmaul1114 Unless it's changed, or I'm remembering wrong, I don't think student Amazon prime accounts get the streaming. But maybe that's changing now that they're charging a discounted rate rather than having it free.

The discounted rate for those coming off of the free year does indeed include free streaming. I paid for a year of Prime.

Man, Redbox's stock is going to soar in the next few days.

Actually, they're doing it BECAUSE they're no longer a monopoly. They have to compete with Amazon, Hulu, Google, and Apple for content. There's an article out there about it, including how little they actually make right now, meaning they don't have much money to pay for licensing rights.

On an article yesterday, their licensing costs for 2010 was only $180 million. Their profit last year was $161 million in the same time, on sales of $2.2 billion. You can easily see why they have to raise prices.

If you want to blame someone, blame the content providers for jacking up licensing fees.

Edit: did some quick searches. If they need to pay $100 mil for Miramax films only, just think how much their other licenses are going to cost them. They'll be deep in the red if they don't raise prices.

Seriously, it's still way cheaper than cable.

Well if you think about:
Let's say you can rent and watch 8 movies per month from netflix. $8
If you rented 8 movies from redbox it would still cost $8.
At blockbuster it costs like $8 for one rental.
If you realize that netflix has the best selection that the price increase is actually justified.
That being said they should have atleast given current members some kind of deal like $15 a month instead of $18.

Originally Posted by dmaul1114 Unless it's changed, or I'm remembering wrong, I don't think student Amazon prime accounts get the streaming. But maybe that's changing now that they're charging a discounted rate rather than having it free.

They don't renew Amazon Student, they sent me an offer for 50% off a year of Amazon Prime.

Does anyone know how much Hulu Plus is?

Originally Posted by elessar123 Actually, they're doing it BECAUSE they're no longer a monopoly. They have to compete with Amazon, Hulu, Google, and Apple for content. There's an article out there about it, including how little they actually make right now, meaning they don't have much money to pay for licensing rights. On an article yesterday, their licensing costs for 2010 was only $180 million. Their profit last year was $161 million in the same time, on sales of $2.2 billion. You can easily see why they have to raise prices. If you want to blame someone, blame the content providers for jacking up licensing fees.

Very true.

I've more or less gotten over it now after looking at my count and seeing I only streamed 10 movies thus far in 2011, and most of those were in the spring when I was laid up recovering from surgery.

So disc only will be fine for me and save me $2 from what I'm paying for currently, with just some added in convenience of not having streaming available for the older movie, documentary or tv show here or there.

Originally Posted by gbpackers94 Well if you think about: Let's say you can rent and watch 8 movies per month from netflix. $8 If you rented 8 movies from redbox it would still cost $8. At blockbuster it costs like $8 for one rental. If you realize that netflix has the best selection that the price increase is actually justified. That being said they should have atleast given current members some kind of deal like $15 a month instead of $18.

Yeah, it's still a good deal for heavy users. Myself I'm more in the 4-6 movies watched a month pace across discs and streaming so it's not worth $16 plus tax for me IMO. But, as I said above, I'm mostly ok with just dropping streaming and paying $10+ tax and watching 4-6 discs a month since I'm not willing to hassle with Redbox.