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We have Netflix DVDs sitting around for months before we get around to watching them. Frankly, sorting that DVD queue is more Fucking With than I want to devote time for. I use the streaming service all the time on both my XBox 360 and my Roku device. Got Hulu+ only because they have day-late Daily Show and Colbert Report and I ain’t gonna watch on my laptop.
Will probably just drop down from 3 DVDs to 1 or 2 and continue on as normal.
I do 4 DVDs at a time, and my plan is going up by $2. I can deal with that.
I just switched to DVD-only (since I never use the streaming anyway), and saved like ten bucks. I was subsidizing the “streamers” before and now I’m not, so that’s good, right?
I switched to the 1-DVD-at-a-time only, max-4-per-month a couple of years ago when I canceled my satellite (which we absolutely never watched). That plan’s always worked very nicely for us, as we average about 2 movies a month. I don’t want the streaming, and Redbox or local stores (I’m in the ‘burbs, so no decent options) are useless for what I want (which is usually older or more obscure choices). I almost never watch new releases. My plan has been under $5/month – it was one of the ones they didn’t advertise, but begged you to switch to if you contacted them to cancel. If it stays $5/month, I’ll keep it. If they double it…well, I’ll quit watching movies.
I couldn’t even watch Lost Highway on their instant streaming. Their instant streaming was worth $2 to me, but it’s not worth $7.99. And back in its heyday before Sony pulled all its titles, there used to be a hell of a lot more to watch. Now it has less and they’re charging more for it. So if I want to keep both, I have to pay more. Couldn’t they have just raised prices up two dollars? I feel like I’m being punished because I genuinely use both of their services. Now I guess I won’t use either.
@56: “I couldn’t even watch Lost Highway on their instant streaming.”
It’s not Netflix’s fault that your bandwidth is shitty.
I’m probably going to sign up for Netflix again now; I dropped them when I moved to the middle of the forest in January, where our bandwidth is capped at 200 MB per day. The opportunity to be fully employed along with my husband meant sacrificing tv reception, radio reception, and Netflix. I was fine with those sacrifices, but now that we can get a DVD-only plan, I’m very tempted to spend part of our small salary on this. Or, we could just continue as we have for the past seven months, watching our DVD collection of the Simpsons, Futurama, Arrested Development, Monty Python, etc (along with lots of movies), or lying outside on a blanket looking at the stars. Choices, choices.