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Mikezilla:
The selection of the streaming, as everyone has pointed out is flat out garbage. All the good stuff is DVD related, but they upped the price almost double. I dont see how they go from 9.99 for both, to 24.98 for 3 DVDs a month, and streaming. And the streaming content they are adding is a joke as well. So many obscure movies that nobody has ever heard of.

Not to mention they changed a lot of stuff that they did have streaming. I wanted to watch the first few seasons of Dexter over again and they took it away.

PBJ Beverly Hills Cop 2 is my favorite one! I think its ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---, they pretty much killed all the competetion(redbox sucks, it has limited selection and the DVDs are always scratched to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---) and now that they know that they have, they want to up the price because, in all honesty, what else are you going to do?! Buy every movie you want to see?  ::)

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on July 13, 2011, 12:08:18 pm ---Not to mention they changed a lot of stuff that they did have streaming. I wanted to watch the first few seasons of Dexter over again and they took it away.

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The problem is they can't afford the rights for a lot of the content anymore, which is why items that were streaming no longer are.  They expect the agreements they set with Sony, Starz, etc. to be at least 10x larger then it was 2-3 years ago (we're talking $180 million increasing to $1.8 billion).  Here's a few articles on the topic:

Netflix's vanished Sony films are an ominous sign
Studios Start Applying Pressure on Netflix
Is Netflix Doomed?

Donkbaca:
Yeah, they change the streaming content, there is only so much available at a time.  Like I said, its great for kids to stream on your iphone.  

I am sure there are great documentaries and whatnot on Netflix, but I don't want to pay for umlimited streaming documentaries.  Its just not my cup of tea. If you dig that stuff, and its worth it to you, great.  Maybe you love the Goonies, I like that movie, and you love to stream it every day.  More power to you.  Me, i would just rather do other things.  Like I said, my bias is against movies, half the time I watch a movie I feel like I should have read, or played a video game or gone outside and played with my dogs instead.  We all have different ways we like to enjoy our free time.

I hear all of you on the obscure/foreign stuff, that is how netflix got popular to being with.  I just, personally don't like that stuff, and neither does most of America.  Funny thing is, if you look at the history of movie rental, at first it was small, local mom and pop shops that catered to whatever their immediate neighborhood liked, so if you were in a ethnic community, you would have lots of foreign films, if you were in an artsy neighborhood, you would have lots of indy films, etc.  Then along comes blockbuster and hollywood video and these mega chains and they negotiate directly with the studios so that they get the big movie releases first.  Since the small video stores couldn't compete on the big hollywood movies, and since that market is the bulk of what people watch, they went out of business.  Netflix got their start buy buying up all the old stock of these out of business video stores, as a result they had a lot of older movies, foreign movies and artsy movies that the typical blockbuster didn't carry in their stores.  It was these niche offerings that attracted people to Netflix in the first place, and now, the business built on the ashes of the old video stores has conquered the mighty beast that killed off the original mom and pop stores.  Kind of poetic justice in a way...

Vigo:
I left Netflix last time they took a dump on DVD users. Netflix sucks more and more for anyone who uses it for DVD's, and still sucks for streaming selection. I'll still be picking up their streaming again only because the price is cheap enough for me to have it for filler TV. I'm done dumping my savings into television.

I used to have cable, they of course jacked the prices up after a year, and there were no deals unless you bundled it with phone and internet. Of course I don't need a land phone and my internet would take a nosedive whenever I used too much bandwidth. It was their nasty little way of discouraging heavy bandwidth usage, I believe.

Then I dumped the cable and went with a Direct TV/Qwest internet combo. The TV was actually much better than cable and offered better picture and selection that the cable equivalent I used to have. Cheaper too, at least when we had the combo contract. The Qwest internet was awesome as well, as soon as we got 7mbps service in our area. As soon as my combo deal expired, the Direct TV practically doubled in price, so I cut it. Qwest has a price guarantee for life, so that was unaffected.

Now I am very happy with my new PS3 using the media server. The system cost me 3 months of Direct TV, but I won't need to pay any monthly fees. I calculated it out, and a PS3 with both Netflix and Hulu Plus subscriptions will cost me $500 this year. I would have to pay more that $1000 annually for Direct TV. If I went back to cable, it would be close to that as well. Oh, and I don't have to worry about security issues because I don't have my credit card on the PSN and I used a my work address.  :lol

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 13, 2011, 12:37:40 pm ---I left Netflix last time they took a dump on DVD users.

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I left Netflix after I got 3 straight broken DVDs in the mail and then they started billing my card $20/pop for movies I had put in the mail but they claimed did not arrive.  That was the early days.  I've never been tempted to try them again.

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