Netflix goes from $7.99 a month to $16...WHAT???

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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 15:30
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BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:51 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
It's been coming for a while. The truth is, it was a great deal that was always going to be unsustainable. Those tracking the industry have been predicting this for months.

Agreed. I am only surprised that the increase did not come sooner.

We cancelled Comcast when they hit us with their latest semi-annual cable increase, driving our cost over $85.00 / month. We signed up for both Netflix and Hulu Plus streaming over out Xbox 360 for a total of $15.99 / month. While we may not have immediate access to some shows we have more than enough to watch to keep us happy and for a heck of a lot less. We can always catch current stuff online if need be.

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STORYMARK

Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:31 PM

I'd love to drop my cable entirely, but my broadband service is through Comcast. It's either pay an extra $35 for basic cable, or pay a $25 dollar penalty fee for not having it. Might as well get something out of it.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:38 PM

What surprises me is the idea that anyone is surprised about this. Seems like typical fair in life, everything that seems too good to be true probably is.

I like having physical DVDs (or VHSs for that matter, we still tape things with our VCR on SLP off of the TV) and putting them in the player and watching them.

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FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:46 PM

Erk, I forgot to add that last time, my bad.

You make good point, Story - but Netflix needs to both bring that to the fore, and show the numbers, such as is possible, given their previous credibility issues when they lied about throttling till it was proven against them, and then grudgingly admitted it, you see.

And it woulda been a lot smarter to do that up front than what they did.

Now Comcast, hoo boy, you don't wanna get me started, I have enough dirt on them to throw some of em in jail, if anyone with the power and authority around here had the guts to do so - did you know they once took out a full page ad in Farmington DEMANDING the locals recall the mayor for not giving them monopoly rights, and responded with an extended punitive "maintanence" (during which no maintanence was done, and they still billed for the time!) outage when the locals told them to shove it ?
And that ain't even the HALF of what they've done here... TGSHELL.EXE/TGCMD.EXE, and VBS Scripts, and keeping an archive of your complete browsing history, address books, and bookmarks in a seperate location on your PC, which was transmitted/updated to them by those two programs in the wee hours of the morning...
Oh I could go on and on.

-Frem

TWO

Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:53 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Of course. Because companies never spin with press releases. I'll take math over PR until I see something more convincing.

I'm sure there are several factors at play here, but the licensing fees they're paying going up by hundreds of millions isn't as insignificant as they want to make it seem.

You might notice that even the author of the article says their excuse doesn't add up. Did you read past the first couple paragraphs?

I do agree with the bit at the end. The increase equates to the cost of a latte. People need to unbunch their panties, it's hardly the end of the world.

Netflix is never going to tell us exactly how the $10 was split between streaming and DVD, but I can guess.

Netflix splits your $10.00 per month between the DVD unit and the internet streaming unit, depending upon how many video copies each unit distributes per month in North America. You knew that Netflix is now the largest single source of internet traffic in North America and will be getting larger. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-traffic/

Because Netflix is streaming more internet video than mailing DVDs, the streaming part of Netflix is getting more money than the DVD part of Netflix. I am going to pretend I know the ultrasecret number is $8 to Netflix internet for every $2 that goes to Netflix DVD. Netflix said Netflix DVD will go out of business unless it gets more than $2. So the price for streaming plus DVD must go up.

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STORYMARK

Friday, July 15, 2011 12:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

did you know they once took out a full page ad in Farmington DEMANDING the locals recall the mayor for not giving them monopoly rights...

-Frem

Which Farmington would this be? As there are a few, but that's never happened in mine.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, July 15, 2011 2:49 AM

This one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington,_Michigan

Mind you, local politics around here is both extraordinarily strange, and downright nasty, case in point ole Elmer "FUD" Parraghi, who wound up in THIS bizarre situation after a knives-drawn confrontation in the parking lot.

Quote:
Sumpter Township, Mich., Supervisor Elmer Parraghi, 74, and Finance Director Dwayne Seals, 35, habitually, viciously feuding about business issues, recently obtained judicial restraining orders against each other, even though both work in a four-office building.

Mind you, right after voting to continue accepting Canadian trash in spite of 90%+ of Sumpter being against it, was recalled in an election where more folk showed up to throw him out, than ever did to vote him in.

And Comcast, and others, are in it up to the neck, when one ISP (Flashnet, I think) moved into town, the very same day they went in service, someone "accidently" wrecked ALL THREE of MercNets triple rendundant lines, which everyone involved knew was no accident, not when they drove a bobcat up there just to do it.
(three guesses who the subcontractor who owned the bobcat was working for at the time)

-Frem

STORYMARK

Friday, July 15, 2011 3:29 AM

Ah, okay, I'm in a Farmington, so you can see how I was thrown for a sec.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

REDLAVA

Friday, July 15, 2011 11:12 PM

Not to happy with the increase, but it is still better than anything else that is out there. Hopefully this increase in price will help make way for more and better choices in the streaming department.

SHINYGOODGUY

Saturday, July 16, 2011 9:52 PM

The studios are demanding as much as 10 times the licensing fees, so it's this, or they just stop the streaming service

You're right, the studios are milking it for all it's worth. But I sense that they have an ulterior motive - drive Netflix out of business and make the profits directly. Just a thought!

SGG

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