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My $11.99 Netflix plan (unlimited streaming, unlimited DVD/Blu Ray's one at a time) is changing. Starting in September it is going up to $17.98 -- $7.99 for DVD/Blu Ray one at a time, and $9.99 for streaming...

Guess I am going to drop the streaming for the time being... If they had a better/more current streaming selection I would keep it, but very limited titles makes it too expensive at this price...

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You get an e-mail about it? Just wondering if I need to check my (almost) dormant AOL email acct!

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The online browsing selection is GARBAGGIO! This will hurt them.

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I was miffed at getting this as well. For now, I'll keep both, but the streaming better improve- or my Roku better improve- or else I'll drop it.

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I like the streaming selection. Haven't heard about the price increase though. That sucks.:td


EDIT: I read an article saying that their facebook page is flooded with complaints, so maybe that will do something. A 60% increase is a joke.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/23562...firestorm.html

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I got the same thing. Looked at Blockbuster and they are no better. I like the streaming for shows. We are, for example, watching old episodes of Futurama while waiting on the DVD turnaround. Works for us.

The new price sucks. They obviously feel that they are in the driver's seat. The massive system-wide outage of streaming last week makes the timing look like they don't care one bit.

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This sucks big time.. :td

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I dont see how they can increase the price. Anyone have experience with Hulu?

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In addition to the price increase that will drive me away, they keep monkeying with what is, and what is not available for streaming. One week, a movie is streaming, the next, it's not. Plus, too much older shows that ARE NOT streaming, but should be. A price increase would put their service out of my "need to have" category!

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All of this.

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Almost a 200% change since last year. Terrible. I might drop the whole thing on principle.

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I got the email today. This is their second substantial price increase in less than a year. I'll dump the streaming part in a few weeks (once I finish watching the Battlestar Galactica series). The problem with their streaming service is there's nothing current on it. It's mainly older movies and productions, and even then it's pretty limited. Just not worth the added cost to me.

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Got the email today too. Since I haven't streamed anything in months and barely watched the movies I have gotten, I may just drop it all together.

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It will be interesting to see if the price increases are related to the bandwidth agreements or the content providers charging more.

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A lot of these companies get caught up in painting an ever rosier picture to Wall Street in terms of growth and profit, and end up letting their accountants take over. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. :rolleyes:

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NEWSFLASH: Greedy CEO runs company to the ground with decision.

First the offer a great service at a great price, put Blockbuster out of business, and run a HUGE membership drive, then raise the prices...:td :td :td

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I'll be dropping the streaming as well. Very limited availability and I get more options as part of my free on demand movies with my cable company.

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BTW - I do the streaming only as it works great with the limited selection for my 6 year old and the price for it did not increase...yet.

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They really don't have competition anymore.. Once Blockbuster started closing I had a feeling Netflix would raise their pricing.

However it is understandable considering just for them to expand their digital library they will pay a ton just for licensing.

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The email I got said the unlimited streaming was going up to 7.99 a month, with the 2 DVD/Bluray I have currently at 14.99. This does wind up being a $5 increase over what I am paying now. I've been a netflix customer since 2003 and I've no plans to change that now. Their customer service has always been helpful whenever I've had a problem and that is worth the price of entry for a product I use.

I think this is based more on the fact that they are being charged more for the digital streaming rights by the content providers. When they started streaming, they were the only game in town and could dictate prices. Now there are several more (Amazon, Hulu), with additional players getting into the business as well, and the studios feel they can get more money.

Exactly. Am I happy that prices are raising? Nope - it hurts my bottom line.

But at the same time I can understand from a business standpoint why it is necessary. The price to expand their digital streaming service is ballooning quickly as companies realize there's a lot of money to be made from it.

I personally dumped the disc service and stuck with streaming. I like their back catalogue of TV shows.
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Funny, I just the same email, and I'm thinking of dropping DVDs and keeping streaming since I've been finding so much streaming stuff recently. Sure, not a ton of new releases, but plenty of stuff from a year or two ago that I haven't seen yet. Lots of TV shows. Lots of stuff that isn't quite as mainstream like Documentaries. Relative to a year or two ago, the streaming selection has increased exponentially. I don't think I've watched an actual DVD for a month or so.

But yeah the sudden increase does suck.

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I read an article on CNN yesterday about this.
The reason is Studio's, like Sony dictate that once a certain amount of people have downloaded a particular movie, then it must be removed.
Its in their contract with Netflix, and we are going to start seeing this more and more. Here is the article if you are interested:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/tech...ract/index.htm

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If the reason for the increase is the production companies holding their feet to the fire why dont tell their customers that? The email I received states that they are "lowering" cost by separating streaming (now 7.99) and dvd rental (now also 7.99) so 15.98 is now lower than 9.99. Thanks netflix

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I'm hoping this change will increase their streaming options. I switched to streaming only and am returning the DVDs I've had for 6 months.


MCS

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I dumped the DVDs a while ago...streaming only now and Red Box or On Demand for new releases.

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I get one dvd at a time and streaming.
There's been tons of stuff online and in the newspaper about Netflix hogging ISP's resources, and everyone wanting to get a taste. My guess is that this move is to satiate some of that.
I use Netflix streaming constantly, and there's always a dvd here, so we definately get our money's worth. I can't imagine we'd stop using it. We have Time Warner and their lineup of On Demand stuff is lousy. If I had Comcast's On Demand I wouldn't even have Netflix.

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I got this yesterday too and am kind of pissed about the increase and will probably drop the streaming as their streaming selection leaves little to be desired. I am also contemplating dropping them altogether since Redbox for the amount of movies we watch is cheaper and just as convenient since my closest box is less than 2 miles away. I personally think it's a bad move for them especially since they don't offer anything new on their streaming portion. We only use the Streaming for our daughter but with Nick and Disney being Free on Demand even that has been getting used less.

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My son works in their call center -- they were really busy yesterday :rolleyes:

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I really like the streaming but the shows we really want to see are not there (yet?). I also like the first-run DVDs so we can see stuff at home and not have to wait ages...

I am sure that they are trying to expand their catalog, but I have been waiting a long time...

I can use my Roku box to download from other sources -- may have to give Amazon a try...

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I agree that this is upsetting. Especially since they did a slight raise last year by a dollar I thought they would slowly up it that way instead of a giant leap for those of us with both DVD and streaming plans. Now, the price is lowered for unlimited DVDs with one out but the price before included streaming so it's not actually cheaper. I will probably have to end up canceling the DVD out and going to streaming only. Maybe that is what they want though. So they save money on mailing and have enough to pay the studios, etc.

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We use Redbox for all the stuff we really want to see. I can even reserve the movies. There's two of those machines within just a couple miles, so it makes it really cheap, easy and convenient. Even if we forget to return it the next day it still only costs 2 bucks. Way cheaper than the $5.00 and $8.00 titles available on the tv. :tu

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agreed, will be dropping before next billing cycle

anyone try RED BOX?

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Red Box is good and cheap. DVDs are 1.00 and Blu-Ray is 1.50. For the 3 or 4 movies we watch a month after some thought this morning I think I am really leaning toward just dropping Netflix completely unless they improve their streaming game by end of the month.

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I am thinking about dropping them too. I was just billed so I am going to hold onto it for another couple weeks since they won't refund partial months. Maybe I will change my mind by then, but I have been using it less recently so I probably will still drop.

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I use red box all the time. The girlfriend is constantly getting coupon codes for rentals, so we either pay nothing, or 53 cents. At 1 or 2 movies a week (one for us, one for the kid), well, you can see the savings...

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Will content be changing? If so, that may have an impact on price. I know that a friend of mine told me a year ago that Netflix was supposed to start having even new releases available for streaming right away. Also, there was supposed to be an agreement with Nintendo for streaming 3D movies to the new 3DS. I'm not sure if that means 3D will be available for streaming for everyone or not.

I'm actually happy with the new selection.

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I believe this price change doesn't start until September 1st. So we have one billing cycle in-between.

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The in-laws use Amazon Prime, which has streaming. They like it and use it a lot, but also use netflix, so I don't think that they have a sense of one over the other. Anyone here use the Amazon service as your only streaming source?

I need to price the multi-DVD service for netflix, since several things that we are watching have multiple episodes per DVD, that would be equivalent to the streaming service plus one DVD. If the multi DVD is a better price, we'll likely drop the streaming soon.

If anyone comes across any trade rags or other good source discussing the motivations for the new pricing model, I'd appreciate you posting a link here. I'll do the same. A 60% price increase in one shot is unbelievable to me, unless they think that they have a captive market.

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I know RED-BOX is everywhere out here. They are the reason my Video store dropped the price of DVD from $2.50 to a $1 & BLU-RAY from $4 to $2.50 & I've been a member at this Video place since 1996 when it was all VHS & just a few DVD's. They also get all the new releases about two weeks before the release date which is SWEET IMO. :tu

I did the Netflix thing for awhile but did not like the fact that everything I wanted was always out. This was a few years ago things may have changed. I'm old skool & sticking to the Video place 2-mins from the house. -(P

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They are planning to really increase their streaming services and eventually cut out the shipping of DVD's and go to all streaming. It makes sense, but only if they can get new releases streaming. I am canceling my service. Not because of this change, just because we don't get our moneys worth because we aren't watching enough DVD's/Streamed programing.

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From an IT guy, I understand that to allow streaming and expect good performance for thousands or millions of customers must cost a pretty penny.

From a customer, I don't want to pay more, but for me it's $5. I have 3 DVDs and streaming for $20. I believe it will be $25. Sucks, but not the end of the world.

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I use the streaming almost every day. I don't like it when they just drop full things from the streaming though. I had almost finished the first season of Dexter, and then it was gone. All episodes, not just the first season. In the last two weeks they have really dropped the amount of stuff on the streaming. I really don't want to drop the service but I may be forced to drop it.

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That just BLOWS. We just dumped Blockbuster because the $20 / mo we were paying does not include any streaming. We were going to go to the $10 Netflix.
Screwed either way!!

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I'll drop the streaming content until they announce that it is being beefed up. It is a nice backup feature, but the interface isn't user friendly - I have to sift through a bunch of crap to find something worth watching - and the titles are too limited. DVDs will do for now.

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Yahoo News has this article.

http://news.yahoo.com/netflix-raises...040622824.html

Looks like Netflix is staying quiet on their reasons. I like the whopping $0.53 increase in share price. :lr

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I cancelled my streaming service last night and am thinking about dropping it all together. Just need to send back the DVD's I currently have at home. Looking through my queue, there's nothing on there I HAVE to see. If there is, I can always go to a Redbox. Like a commentor posted on the yahoo article, if the streaming was in good quality video and 5.1 sound, I would think of staying with that. But I didn't spend good money on a TV/home theater setup to watch standard def, 2 channel sound broadcasts.

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We canceled ours a little while back. The streaming selection sucks unless you like movies from the 70's and 80's. We were still using Redbox to get new releases. At first it was great but once you watch all the current new releases available you are stuck waiting for more. Not sorry we left already.

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Color me surprised. According to my son (work's in Netflix's call center) most of the people calling in about this are not angry -- just asking for instructions regarding how to change their service to make sure that the continue to get both DVD's and streaming...

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The streaming online has been $7.99 since early this year when they changed their services. I canceled the DVD portion of the service and just kept my streaming, then, because they upped the amount.