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Posted: Jul 12 2011 04:31 pm

60% price increase is laaaaaaaaaaaaame.

Posted: Jul 12 2011 04:35 pm

Blame the movie companies dude! Netflix has contracts up til 2012 with a majority of the studios it works with. They currently have 180 Mil in contracts and are expected to have to pay almost 2 BILLION for the same contracts.

Posted: Jul 12 2011 05:05 pm

A price hike of $6 a month for this service is acceptable to me. It's well worth the money, in my opinion.

Posted: Jul 12 2011 05:16 pm

Especially since I only had streaming to begin with so, no skin off my sack.

Posted: Jul 12 2011 09:37 pm

I see Douche, that sucks for them. And I do agree, that it is still well worth the price.

Posted: Jul 13 2011 12:59 am

I'm just going to cancel the DVD part of my subscription and stick to streaming. I almost exclusively stream anyway. I'll use Redbox for anything newer. It'll work out to about the same per month anyway.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

Really I think the popularity of the streaming brought this on. More movies are streamed and the studios want more money.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I don't use Netflix because Comcast has a bandwidth cap. If they won that battle, I would be joining. I don't know enough about the streaming catalog to know if it is worth the price, but it sounds to me like redbox and Hulu might do the trick.

Posted: Jul 13 2011 09:40 am

What's the deal with Hulu, is it free or a pay service?

Streaming I would say is well worth it for Netflix. Maybe I will cancel my DVD per month, as I only end up with at most 4 movies a month.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Hulu is both pay and free. Depends on what level of service you want.

Google is actually looking to buy it.

Posted: Jul 13 2011 01:51 pm

Here's hoping they do, and Microsoft doesn't.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Jul 13 2011 02:19 pm

fuck I need to find that DVD i need to send back to Nutflix

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

GPFontaine wrote:

I don't use Netflix because Comcast has a bandwidth cap. If they won that battle, I would be joining. I don't know enough about the streaming catalog to know if it is worth the price, but it sounds to me like redbox and Hulu might do the trick.

Hulu is better for tv shows and red box is better for new releases. The netflix streaming catalog is pretty amazing. And they have older movies that redbox doesn't have. You can see the streaming catalog here.

http://instantwatcher.com/

Posted: Jul 15 2011 01:01 am

docinsano wrote:

fuck I need to find that DVD i need to send back to Nutflix

Hahaha, this, exactly.

I am in the same boat and state of mind as Klimb on all of this.

Posted: Jul 15 2011 01:51 am

The price increase is if you want streaming and discs, right? It's just just 7.99 a month for streaming only?

Posted: Jul 15 2011 02:36 am

Yes. $7.99 for streaming only. $15.98 if you want streaming and DVDs.

I like the direction Netflix is going with this. They've wanted to phase out their DVD service for a while and focus on streaming. The sooner they get rid of the overhead for renting out DVDs, the faster they can focus on expanding what's available via streaming.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

I believe if they lose dvds they will have to make the streaming $10 to cover the costs of streaming rights.

Posted: Jul 15 2011 03:16 am

That'd be fine if it means their streaming catalog grows. I pay $10 right now.