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Lonestar_1  Posts: 259
Registered: 2004-8-26 08:40:28
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Date Posted:
7/12/11 4:23pm
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60% price increase at Netflix if you use DVD and streaming |
7.99 + 9.99 for 1 bluray/dvd and streaming a month = $17.98. My 2 cents... No its not they are trying to drive people down to lower dvd rentals plans, they are trying to drop it completely as it is so much cheaper to do steaming only.
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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
Posts: 1,098
Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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Date Posted:
7/12/11 4:23pm
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60% price increase at Netflix if you use DVD and streaming |
Lonestar_1 posted:
7.99 + 9.99 for 1 bluray/dvd and streaming a month = $17.98. My 2 cents... No its not they are trying to drive people down to lower dvd rentals plans, they are trying to drop it completely as it is so much cheaper to do steaming only.
Yeah, there have been a number of postage rate increases by the USPS, including a recent one in April that mostly affected only commercial shippers.
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heiromancerdrackus Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass.
Posts: 274
Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
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Date Posted:
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I'm not too happy, and the web backlash is almost palpable. With Blockbuster back to 99c movies and Redbox being what it is, I won't be paying for Netflix's DVD nonsense but I will still use their streaming service.
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Vyxar Title: Arbiter Elegantiarum
Posts: 329
Registered: 2002-3-13 04:54:08
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Date Posted:
7/12/11 4:23pm
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60% price increase at Netflix if you use DVD and streaming |
Ravynmagi posted:
Lonestar_1 posted:
7.99 + 9.99 for 1 bluray/dvd and streaming a month = $17.98. My 2 cents... No its not they are trying to drive people down to lower dvd rentals plans, they are trying to drop it completely as it is so much cheaper to do steaming only.
Yeah, there have been a number of postage rate increases by the USPS, including a recent one in April that mostly affected only commercial shippers.
Therein lies the real culprit. The USPS, like just about any other Govt run quasi-business, is a steaming pile of poo. Netflix is one of the scarce few new enterprises in the last 10 years that sent increased business to the USPS. But the difference between Netflix and say junk mail is that people actually care if they got their Netflix DVD in the mail so the USPS actually had to do their job.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
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I'm still happy, but I will always dislike price hikes.
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Rezzinu  Posts: 185
Registered: 2004-4-17 10:20:46
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Date Posted:
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The problem I see with it is that their streaming selection isn't all that great.
For example, I went to watch Spartacus last night so I went to my instant queue and selected the first episode. As far back as I can remember it has always been available to stream, up until last night. I discovered last night they made the first 5 episodes disc only. This only leads me to believe that they're trying to force people to have into having both plans (disc + streaming).
I'll be canceling my service with them in August. There's too many free places to stream movies on the net. And when I want blu-ray, i'll do like others have said...red-box or blockbuster.
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
7/12/11 4:23pm
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60% price increase at Netflix if you use DVD and streaming |
If anything was ever going to save Blockbuster's ass, this is it.
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Sworks1 Posts: 54
Registered: 2009-3-14 16:00:33
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Date Posted:
7/12/11 4:23pm
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I just sent back my last dvd from them. Once they confirm it's received I'll cancel my sub. Too many red boxes within 5 miles of me not to switch.
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Bendar. Posts: 16
Registered: 2002-11-19 13:17:56
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Date Posted:
7/12/11 4:23pm
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you got to know that somewhere in some conference room when this was press released there were a bunch of blockbuster execs having a party
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
Reziztance iz Futile
Posts: 1,001
Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
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60% price increase at Netflix if you use DVD and streaming |
Rezzinu posted:
I'll be canceling my service with them in August. There's too many free places to stream movies on the net. And when I want blu-ray, i'll do like others have said...red-box or blockbuster.
By free do you mean legal?
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