Netflix Streaming Thread 2.0

I haven't really looked into it as I figured it was like other pay per movie services and thus probably $3-5 per movie which is more than I'm willing to pay.

How's selection? I'm not much interested in paying per movie for new releases etc. as I'd rather just get discs from Netflix for those. I'd just be interested in paying a buck or two here and there to watch a documentary or something between discs rather than "wasting" a disc rental on those as I like to save those mainly for new releases etc.
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The selection is decent. But yes it is 3-5 dollars per movie, normally. Older movies can be found for $2ish and if you watch sales they often can be had for cheap.

There is a rumor floating that MS is working on a subscription plan for Zune Video Marketplace which would be REALLY cool.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']
Sorry, that's a 10 mile round trip, not a 20 mile round trip. You really passed College math buddy. Typically when I go out for something I try to combine as many things into one trip/area when I go out.
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Q: A man goes to rent a dvd that is five miles from his home. He does not wish to keep the movie forever, so he will need to return it when he is done watching it. The closest spot he can return it is the same location 5 miles from his home. How many total miles must he travel to rent and return this DVD?

I'll let you do the college math on this one. Let me know if you need help.
 
Hiccup,

1) 5 miles to dvd store
2) 5 miles back home
3) watch movie
4) 5 miles back to dvd store
5) 5 miles back home
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grand total: 20 miles for a dvd rental.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']It's definitely bad marking. The price hike would get a lot less backlash if they'd came out and put the blame on the studios AND made some clear statements about how they'd be improving the service going forward.
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Exactly. One of the main reasons people are upset because they will be paying 60% more for the exact same service they are getting now, with virtually no explanation.

For other people, like me, its just a value thing. i have an extra $6.50 each month, the money isn't a problem. but for a service i under utilize as it is, it's a big increase. It's almost an $80 a year increase (or 60 Guinness). If I just cancel the whole thing I have an extra $150 in my pocket for the year (based on current price) or $225 (based on new prices). Hell with that much money I can just buy 15-20 blurays throughout the year.
 
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OMFG WTFBBQ!!!!?!?!11!>?

I need to spend an extra $5 a month to have movies show up like magic on my tv whenever I want them and to also have 2 sent to me by mail that I can also watch at my leisure. That's it, time to murder!

Seriously people. It's only going up by a large amount if you're on the 1 DVD out at a time plan. Ask yourself how much that one DVD meant if you don't want to spend the money. Ask yourself how much streaming you watch if you don't want to spend the money. If $15 a month isn't worth the access to that content, then leave and please make sure to bitch as much as possible on the way out because it makes you feel better.
 
I don't think anyone is really blowing up like some of you make it out to be though.

It's just that for some people the extra $5-6 on their plan makes it no longer worth it to them for the amount they use it, so they have to either down grade to disc or streaming only or cancel. For some it was worth $9.99 for streaming and DVD, but they don't find it worth $15.99 and don't find either the streaming or DVDs alone worth $7.99. Everyone has different budgets and priorities etc.

And of course people aren't happy when prices go up like this. No one is ever happy when a bill goes up. Especially when it's a luxury bill like Netflix and there's no promised improvement in service for the extra money. Who likes to pay more for the same service they got before? Especially on a site like this which caters to people who always want teh best deal possible!

I agree it's not worth ranting and raving about, but I haven't seen much of that. Most of the ranting and raving is from people who think the service is still worth it at the new price in response to people who've mostly just simply said they're going to cancel as it's not worth it to them anymore.

For me, as I've said I'll keep the 1 DVD plan and drop streaming as I mainly just watched the DVDs/BRs anyway as I prefer newer releases as I've seen most of the older films I care to watch and don't have time to invest in TV series. So I'm ok with it as it will save me $2 a month from what I was paying before by dropping the streaming I seldom used anway. I don't have anything in my streaming queue that I can get by disc from Netflix anyway.
 
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[quote name='RAMSTORIA']Exactly. One of the main reasons people are upset because they will be paying 60% more for the exact same service they are getting now, with virtually no explanation.

For other people, like me, its just a value thing. i have an extra $6.50 each month, the money isn't a problem. but for a service i under utilize at is, it's a big increase. It's almost an $80 a year increase (or 60 Guinness). If I just cancel the whole thing I have an extra $150 in my pocket for the year (based on current price) or $225 (based on new prices). Hell with that much money I can just buy 15-20 blurays throughout the year.[/QUOTE]
Or forget the blurays and get 150 Guinness instead.:lol:
 
[quote name='lordopus99']Hiccup,
grand total: 20 miles for a dvd rental.[/QUOTE]


He caught it pretty quick, but there's been some "editing" in this topic LOL! Someone has it out for him.
 
Yeah, pretty much everyone I knew who has netflix went, "dang netflix price is going up" and then moved on with their life. Its kinda funny to see all the rage in here over this.
 
Albino Alligator was just added. I never heard of it but it sounds interesting and it has a great cast. Here's the description from Netflix ..

Kevin Spacey made his directing debut with this edgy crime drama about a trio of small-time hoods (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner) fleeing after a bungled robbery in New Orleans. They hole up in a basement bar, taking five people hostage while trying to determine their next move as the feds and a Special Weapons and Tactics team swarm outside. The great cast includes Faye Dunaway, Joe Mantegna and Viggo Mortensen.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Albino Alligator was just added. I never heard of it but it sounds interesting and it has a great cast. Here's the description from Netflix ..

Kevin Spacey made his directing debut with this edgy crime drama about a trio of small-time hoods (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner) fleeing after a bungled robbery in New Orleans. They hole up in a basement bar, taking five people hostage while trying to determine their next move as the feds and a Special Weapons and Tactics team swarm outside. The great cast includes Faye Dunaway, Joe Mantegna and Viggo Mortensen.[/QUOTE]

I've never heard of it, either. It does sound interesting, and Sinise and Fichtner are two of my favorite actors. Thanks for the post. I'll definitely check it out.
 
While I'm disappointed in a price increase, I understand the costs associated with the licenses Netflix has to obtain to retain their current content library.

Most of the studios wish Netflix was dead - they view it as a reason (possibly reason #2 after piracy...?) that their profits are falling - even if that isn't actually true. I'm more upset with the studios for reaming Netflix in negotiations than I am with Netflix for trying to stay in the red.

I've felt like Netflix was an insane deal since the first day I subscribed to it and started streaming. A price increase has been due for a long time, considering the value of the service.. it's shame they didn't follow more of a cable company model and do a slight costs increase every year instead, though...

In any event, if we pretended that the studios were to successfully kill Netflix's subscriber base it isn't going to net them any more money, it'll just lead to more piracy.
 
[quote name='62t']Not on DSi[/QUOTE]
You know if it's any good on 3DS, I read Netflix was going to start offering 3D content for ti
 
[quote name='KingDox']Yeah, pretty much everyone I knew who has netflix went, "dang netflix price is going up" and then moved on with their life. Its kinda funny to see all the rage in here over this.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I've talked to 2 people about it. 1 is doing the same as me and just going to disc only, the other is undecided but leaning toward the same.

All are like me and just watch 1-2 movies a week so we all agree $15.98/17.98 is too much and lean toward discs since we can get a disc for anything we'd want to stream pretty much, the the reverse isn't true.
 
A few cents increase could have been tolerable for a while, but their price hike this time is a little too much for entertainment. I decided it's better to go for streaming alone, it works for me good enough at 7.99. Better if they improve their streaming library and service with all the additional revenue they're getting, but I'm not putting my hopes too high. I can't deny that they still have some value compared to other brands offering similar services but meh, I have a lot other options if I want to have some movie fix.

I came across some article discussing the best choice among the plans offered by Netflix by details, so for those who wants to earn good value with their services it's a pretty good read: Surviving the Netflix price increase.
 
[quote name='nasum']OMFG WTFBBQ!!!!?!?!11!>?

I need to spend an extra $5 a month to have movies show up like magic on my tv whenever I want them and to also have 2 sent to me by mail that I can also watch at my leisure. That's it, time to murder!

Seriously people. It's only going up by a large amount if you're on the 1 DVD out at a time plan. Ask yourself how much that one DVD meant if you don't want to spend the money. Ask yourself how much streaming you watch if you don't want to spend the money. If $15 a month isn't worth the access to that content, then leave and please make sure to bitch as much as possible on the way out because it makes you feel better.[/QUOTE]

I can let this one slide, however if another increase comes within a year I'm going to start looking around.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Home Movies is on instant streaming now. :whee:[/QUOTE]


ARHGAHGAHA!!!! :applause::applause::applause:

If that isnt worth 5 bucks I dont know what is. Now if only Breaking Bad would show up.


So just a quick recap because I find the complete 180 in this thread to be fall-out-of-chair hilarious. 2 days ago everyone was ready to punch a netflix baby in the face because of the price gouging.

Now we know exactly why they needed to and its a perfectly fine and understandable reason. With the raising cost of bringing content to their customers they have to match it with a rise with higher rates. (Note I never said dvd, I thought it was more for streaming but the point was cost is cost)

So what? Piss in the corner and walk out like nothing happened. Then which I think is the best part it seems like no one actually cancelled netflix. They all choose the very options that netflix custom made for people who thought the price point was too high for both.


I do very much agree with this though...Netflix biggest mistake was in PR and not treating us all like Soodmeg. A young and naive idiotic college grad who doesnt know that 5+5+5+5=10.



But now that we are over that lets get back to the content...big ups to Mak who continued the updates during the course of Netflix cold war.
 
No, there's been several people who have canceled (or at least said they have) in this thread, the thread in the Blu Ray deals forum and on some other forums I post on. Many have posted canceling and switching to the Blockbuster trial, or just going with Hulu+ and Redbox for movies etc.

It does seem like more have done like me and just downgraded to either DVD or Streaming only though, rather than canceling. So Netflix probably won't lose any profit over this in the long run. So you're right about that.

I've still got to see a lot better content for my interest on streaming before I'll ever pay for it though. Until it starts getting new releases, it's not worth anything to me since I can just use discs for the few docs and tv shows I streamed occasionally before.
 
Yep I am one of those people. I am waiting for my fiance to finish Eureka so I can turn it off (in favor of Blockbuster). I have until Sept 1 for price increase. That's plenty of time.
 
Agreed. I'm keeping my plan as is until the end of August, and then I'll downgrade it to disc only.

But I guess some are just pissed and want to cancel right away to send Netflix a message or whatever.
 
Anyone having problems streaming on consoles? I can't get it working on the PS3 or Wii, have been messing with it for over an hour now and I'm about to explode. I've followed every single suggestion I can find online and nothing works. Deleted and re-downloaded the programs on each respective console. Deactivated through the website. The Wii at least gave me a new activation code, but now it won't connect when it tries. The PS3 doesn't get that far and gives the same unhelpful error message every time.

WTF!
 
[quote name='Maklershed']I imagine we'll read the news tomorrow that they were hacked for raising their rates.[/QUOTE]

Well I was upset with the price hike as well. It's stupid to raise 60% increase!
 
Just started using Netflix this month, was working fine until today. Now all I get is "We're unable to connect you to Netflix" on both the PS3 and the Wii. Netflix instant is playing fine on the PC. I get the sense this is a fairly common problem from reading around, but how often does it usually last? is there something I'm supposed to do, like a reinstall of the Netflix application on PS3 or something? thanks.
 
Problems in the past have tended to be a day or less, and sometimes they credit your account for a day of service if there's a prolonged outage.
 
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon is up now just in case people were wondering. It's really a great show. I love the voice acting.
 
[quote name='monash65']Just started using Netflix this month, was working fine until today. Now all I get is "We're unable to connect you to Netflix" on both the PS3 and the Wii. Netflix instant is playing fine on the PC. I get the sense this is a fairly common problem from reading around, but how often does it usually last? is there something I'm supposed to do, like a reinstall of the Netflix application on PS3 or something? thanks.[/QUOTE]When I get the "unable to connect" on the ps3 I quit then load up netflix again and it works.
 
[quote name='johnnypark']Anyone having problems streaming on consoles? I can't get it working on the PS3 or Wii, have been messing with it for over an hour now and I'm about to explode. I've followed every single suggestion I can find online and nothing works. Deleted and re-downloaded the programs on each respective console. Deactivated through the website. The Wii at least gave me a new activation code, but now it won't connect when it tries. The PS3 doesn't get that far and gives the same unhelpful error message every time.

WTF![/QUOTE]

I had issues with Netflix on the PS3. I deleted it from the XMB and then re-downloaded it and it has worked perfect since. Not sure what happened.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Agreed. I'm keeping my plan as is until the end of August, and then I'll downgrade it to disc only.

But I guess some are just pissed and want to cancel right away to send Netflix a message or whatever.[/QUOTE]

I know that is my thinking.... I admit the price increase doesn't piss me off because I can't afford it... it pisses me off because their is no real reason to the rise in prices.

Initially they tacked on the couple bucks and changed plans claiming that bluray prices were higher and warranted a change. That was ok, I was fine with it. But now that the bluray market has matured, their are way more deals out their than at blurays inception. People can go out and buy from retailers at a huge discount, so you cannot tell me Netflix does not take advantage of getting major discounts on blurays from their distributors. I do not feel this hike is warranted since bluray prices have done nothing but decline... if anything we should have to pay less. In other words, this is just a big fuck you to any loyal members.

Side note, I enjoy how blockbuster discounts their plans if you say you areswitching from netflix. 15 bucks a month for 2 out at a time, and I can get games? Oh hell yes! Even if they are older games, I will gladly stop drinking the netflix koolaid and jump to Blockbuster.
 
[quote name='Steggy']I know that is my thinking.... I admit the price increase doesn't piss me off because I can't afford it... it pisses me off because their is no real reason to the rise in prices.

Initially they tacked on the couple bucks and changed plans claiming that bluray prices were higher and warranted a change. That was ok, I was fine with it. But now that the bluray market has matured, their are way more deals out their than at blurays inception. People can go out and buy from retailers at a huge discount, so you cannot tell me Netflix does not take advantage of getting major discounts on blurays from their distributors. I do not feel this hike is warranted since bluray prices have done nothing but decline... if anything we should have to pay less. In other words, this is just a big fuck you to any loyal members.

Side note, I enjoy how blockbuster discounts their plans if you say you areswitching from netflix. 15 bucks a month for 2 out at a time, and I can get games? Oh hell yes! Even if they are older games, I will gladly stop drinking the netflix koolaid and jump to Blockbuster.[/QUOTE]

:roll: :rofl::rofl:
 
So, Power Rangers is on Netflix, which is new to me. Could be old news to everyone else though.
One thing that pissed me off is they're using the gay'd up versions of the episodes they recently did when they started showing the old series Saturday mornings recently. It's hard to describe, but for instance, Tommy did a flip and the screen said, "Flip!" and they're doing a lot of other stupid editing to the episodes to "punch it up."

Stupid.
 
[quote name='silentevil']You know if it's any good on 3DS, I read Netflix was going to start offering 3D content for ti[/QUOTE]

I watched Toy Story 3 the first day Netflix came out on my 3ds. Decent quality. Better quality on my IPod but then it's on a smaller screen. But I'm pretty excited if they do release some 3d content tho.

The menu is nice and easy to use.
 
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I'm not so concerned about the price increase as I am the fact that Netflix's on-demand days are definitely numbered. We knew it all along, how long have we been repeating in this thread that the streaming service was too good to be true?

More than a return to "normal" pricing (which, again, we knew was a steal all along), what I'd like from Netflix is some information on their deals with the various studios -- what do they have access to, how long will they have access to it?

I don't see why the studios wouldn't cut Netflix off entirely, especially given that so many of them are part of these ungodly conglomerates (e.g. Universal/NBC/Comcast, Viacom/CBS/Paramount). Maybe it's in their short-term interests to license some low-end titles to Netflix, but I would think that would dry up as they want to draw people to whatever service they decide to create. Comcast has their own limited on-demand bullshit -- the service is shit, but what's to prevent them from making that the *only* source for NBC/Universal content?

In spite of the price increase, I still have the feeling that the other shoe's about to drop with Netflix, like the whole thing is going to be swallowed up by some other larger corporation and turned into a ass-rapey, studio friendly delivery service like Hulu.
 
I agree. I just hope whatever bad may happen with their streaming service doesn't cause them to go under and end their disc rental service as that's mainly what I use anyway.
 
It seems like disc rentals are safe, at least for as long as they hold up as the preferred medium for the majority. The studios don't have a problem with the way rentals go, that's firmly established from the practices of a bygone era. The studios seem like they just want to sit on that model and hope it goes nowhere: I can imagine those initial meetings between Netflix and the studios sounding something like "I don't understand this Instant Queue, will it play in a VCR?"

When the studios do decide to get really aggressive, and move beyond simply goosing Netflix on licensing fees, it's gonna get ugly fast for Netflix. I'm basing that on no business experience, just a gut feeling that everything that is or was good about the internet will continue to fizzle away.
 
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