I'm planning on probably switching too due to this price increase. I'm trying to decide if we really use the streaming all that much anymore. We have it hooked up to our ROKU box but there's a lot of 'eh, this could be good'.

I'll most likely switch to online only and then hit up Redbox for those unavailable online. Ugh.

I switched to the streaming only as soon as it was available. There are plenty of good movies and most are in HD. As content shifts from physical discs to streaming the offerings will only increase.

In Canada, we only have the streaming option. And the selection isn't as good as the US selection at that. $8 a month is still a steal compared to cable. What I WANT from netflix is a streaming a la carte rental service. Say I want to watch True Grit - I pay an extra 3 or 4 bucks, and the movie shows up in a netflix 'rented' queue for 1 month. Once I start watching it, it is there for 48 hours. That's what I want. Right now there's no service that allows me to rent streaming content in Canada that I can use on my boxee.

I already weaned myself off of Cable TV a while back, so the only video service I subscribe to currently is Netflix. Sure, a price-hike hurts, but better that than the $100/month I used to pay for Cable I would never watch.

What's annoying is that there are movies/shows available on disc that aren't available on streaming, and vice versa. We use both streaming and discs from Netflix, but will now re-think which is most important.

I watch no more than 1-2 dvds a month so renting instant downloads off amazon or elsewhere makes more sense. Unless you have a fancy home theatre setup and want the HD quality of a disc, or you watch more than 2 dvds a month, I see no point to the dvd plans.

I don't see any reason for me to cancel, I think it's a silly knee jerk reaction honestly. I will go down to streaming only because I rarely get dvds.
Then again, I don't have cable tv, and $10/month to watch everything on demand is still better than any cable offer around.

Online only + Redbox + Library for me. I'm currently averaging one disc a week with Netflix... I pretty much only watch the streaming stuff now.

I've been thinking about adding Amazon Prime service for the video on demand library and the added bonus of super fast shipping. Might do that finally.

I'm currently on the 8-disc "race through the Criterion Collection before they're gone" plan. Mine is going from $55.99 to $51.98 so no complaints here.

We also left the cable/satellite world years ago, and Netflix is a staple of our entertainment. We're just finishing the last season of Alias, then we'll probably go down to streaming only, which we do also use a fair bit. There's always a hidden gem of a series out there to watch. For more recent movies, RedBox is right around the corner.

For old series not available on Netflix streaming, I figure somebody out there is selling it the set on eBay; we can buy it, watch it, and re-sell it.

maybe they could actually start streaming stuff people actually want to see instead of the huge amount of crap and completely unheard of movies i see in the "new" section...

also don't they still have restrictions of when they can actually stream new content, so as they hike the price and push us to streaming only, we get no new content.

Netflix is raising prices because the content providers (Sony/Fox/Starz/etc) they get their content from have realized the value of Netflix... they want more money to provide their content.

When Netflix first launched, they had an amazing deal with Starz which netted them a lot of streaming rights to movies for a low price. That deal has expired and is being renegotiated. Obviously they won't get such an amazing deal this time around and need to pass some of that cost onto their consumers.

Netflix knows streaming is the way forward, and for $8/mo compared to a cable bill I'm sure as hell not complaining. The same way no one complained before streaming was offered at $9 for a single dvd out. I'd much prefer that compared to the $80+ for Comcast.

If you're unhappy with the selection you can supplement with Hulu Plus for another $8 a month as well for some newer streaming content. $30 a month for a great selection of movies and shows, when I want them without commercials is a great deal.

I'm with the others that will only be cancelling their DVD option, but will be keeping the streaming. I watch enough old TV shows and movies on there to make it worthwhile for me.

As for the article's claim that Netflix is losing customers, haven't they actually been seeing some MAJOR growth this year? I heard statistics just a few weeks back that Netflix accounts for 1/3 of all Internet traffic in the US.

I also cancelled the DVD option since I've had one on my table for two months now. I just hope they will increase the selection of movies for streaming. It sucks when you click on the "New Arrivals" tab for streaming and see something like Beetlejuice.

I have the 2 dvds per month plan ($4.99/month) and rarely get around to watching that many (also no cable). But I think if I didn't have the actual dvd in hand I'd probably never be bothered to watch anything.

I don't plan on making any changes. I'll suck up the price hike, but I'd be lost without the DVD content. HBO is VERY stingy with streaming, and since I haven't had cable in 10+ years, I am about seven series behind. I still haven't seen any of "Six Feet Under," Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Big Love," "True Blood" or "Entourage."

The streaming fills the gap between discs (I'm on a two disc plan) but it can be very limiting.

As soon as Netflix adds the option for subtitles rather than English subs to their streaming anime and foreign film sections, I'll probably drop the DVD option.

But for now, watching those things with subs is a pain worse than death.

To echo other replies: My plan is going up $5. If you can't afford $5 more a month, you should rethink a lot of things relating to your budget. Besides, Comcast was reaming me for $80+ a month for the step above basic cable. F that.

I'm a bit different in my thinking. I'm leaning toward eliminating my streaming service and going DVD only. I'm one of those rare birds who really values the sound and video quality one gets from physical media. I do use streaming, but am regularly underwhelmed by the stale content that's available.
Either way, I don't appreciate the cost hike. It was bad enough when they started charging a premium for Blu-ray discs. And let's not forget the 30 day waiting period to rent "new releases". Arrgh...

I'm actually stunned at how cheap Netflix is for my usage because I take full advantage of streaming TV shows. Lately I've watched all episodes of Torchwood (3 seasons), Pillars of the Earth (7 episodes), Downtown Abbey (7 episodes) and several seasons of Skins. You may wonder if I have a life, but I'm actually watching all of these while at the gym - steaming on my Android. Makes the time fly! And meanwhile, my husband uses the SAME account to steam his favorites (Futurama, Larry Sanders, and the IT Crowd) when he works out (at different times than me) or up in the middle of the night with our 4 month old. I'm one super happy customer!

We will be keeping our current Four-at-time plus streaming plan. When I checked on the planned price increase, I found ours would only go up $2 per month.

It seems like the percentage of rate increase is worse for people with lesser disc-per-month plans.

Also, based on my use of the streaming service, I think the selection has gotten worse over time. I think Netflix is overvaluing their streaming based on the content currently available.

I think one thing they should seriously consider doing to avoid losing more subscribers to RedBox is to include BD titles in their disc based plans.

I liked the values and customer service of this company, but now that they are peeing on my leg and telling me it's raining ("we're doing you a FAVOR! We're offering you more CHOICE!"), I think I'm going to let them go.

We have 3 dvds + streaming, and will be keeping it. Our old price was 19.99 and the new is 23.98. $4 is not really a big deal. Especially since we don't use cable TV at all. Netflix saves me a lot of money as a cable replacement.

My solution is to just have family/friends with netflix accounts, then I get to stream movies under their account for free.

With Red Box don't you actually have to leave your house to get the DVD?!?!?!?!

I have found that the streaming content is not all that. Nice when I travel but at home I rarely watch. So I went down to the $4.99 DVD only deal. But thinking I will likely cancel.

The selection with streaming is great, and much more conveinent. As long as the 7.99 price doesn't hike, I'm good!

I second the previous poster - $7.99 plan is more than enough viewing for me, even w/o cable TV. no need to spend more hours in front of the tube.

What's frustrating is certain things aren't streaming, and others aren't in DVD format. We've been trying to watch all of Bleach but when you get to episode 73 (and 74 and probably a few after that) the audio was completely messed up from a completely different episode. They fixed it to the correct episode, but now it lags a good five seconds behind. They still have yet to fix it and it's been MONTHS. Then there's stuff like White Collar or Dexter, where you know they are never going to get online streaming rights for the later seasons for probably years and you end up waiting (not exaggerating) 6+ months for disc two to come in after you watched disc one (which was also a six month wait) because you're competing with hundreds of other people for the same show.

Considering what is in our DVD queue is largely unavailable, they're fired.

We have never actually used the DVD that first arrived at our house with netflix, so transitioning to streaming only will be no big deal.

I do with they had slightly better variety in their streaming content, though.

I canceled mine just yesterday!
Sometimes I only get one movie in a month.

I will most likely be canceling my Netflix before the price hike. I understand that costs need to go up, but mine will jump from $10 to $16. I know that $6 isn't the end of the world, but I don't like the idea that there isn't an option to bundle the two (streaming + DVDs) together. Feels like Netflix execs (or those that provide the streaming conent) are getting greedy. I also love that there's no way to contact Netflix except to call. Not that I want to send them a crazy angry rant, but I would like to tell them I'm disappointed with these new charges in writing.

I'm not a huge fan of streaming. We can never get Netflix streaming to work correctly with our setup. And it seems the things I want to watch aren't streamable anyway. I will probably go down to the one-dvd-at-a-time option and then reassess from there.

holgalista, try these:
Netflix, Inc.
100 Winchester Circle
Los Gatos, CA 95032

publicrelations@netflix.com

"I'm actually stunned at how cheap Netflix is for my usage..." @Jenny loves pudding
I concur. I watch so much stuff online that I really don't know how they can afford it. Plus if by increasing rates they can offer more titles for streaming, then I will happily pay more. It's better than cable or blockbuster...

I already cancelled yesterday.Knee jerk reaction perhaps.But I really found their notification condescending.Everything on streaming can be found at the local library for free.

I ditched cable a month ago, and definitely get $15 worth of viewing from streaming alone. I just got an email from Amazon offering half-price prime with unlimited streaming when my year of free student-prime ends in August. Amazon + Netflix streaming + occasional Redbox DVDs should give me everything I want to watch for a year at less cost than 2 months worth of cable.

I went for the 2 DVDs a month for $4.99--although when I made the selection it kicked in immediately, I should have waited for the changeover in Sept. Now, I will make meaningful selections and look forward to the dvds arriving in my mail box. My experience of streaming is a bit like eating at a buffet (where I most often eat too much). I will take a single serving for now and re-learn how to wait. That being said, the jury is still out on Netflix. I didn't have it a couple of years ago and I used my time differently.

Curious what impact this will have on USPS. I don't know how much netflix paid per envelope, but it would be fair to say that other than junk mail, Netflix envelopes were the only thing I received in the mail. Will this result in a massive drop in revenue for the USPS as almost anyone I've talked to has said "Guess I'm switching to streaming only"?

I'm actually more than a little irritated--and the plan's going up $6 not $5. But it's not the money, it's the idea that Netflix has such flagrant disregard for customers who've been loyal for a very long time--long before streaming was a possibility on the site. Occasional price hikes, OK. A deliberate attempt to rifle us, not OK. What? Those with stakes in Netflix aren't going to be billionaires anymore? Mere millionaires? Why not make the decision that sometimes owners and management are the ones who must bite the bullet in favor of showing appreciation for customer loyalty. You can get up to 10 DVDs from the public library for free, so there's no way I'm paying for that from Netflix, convenience be damned. And the only thing I watch streaming is SVU, and that's gone the way of the dodo, too.

I'm going the opposite way from most of the commenters it seems... cancelling the streaming service and keeping the DVDs. I live far enough in the sticks that I have to pay for verizon's mobile internet- streaming movies takes too long to load and uses too much of my monthly download allowance to bother with.

I'm so glad to read this article! We were pretty furious when we heard about this happening, mostly because they've increased the price already in the past year. I think we're going to keep streaming until we run out of good stuff, and then cancel all together. I'd rather just keep HBO at this point.

I'm not sure what I am going to do seeing that the BF and I just moved in together. The original plan was for us to both keep our own netflix accounts, but now it seems silly for us to both be paying for streaming, so I am most likely going to drop that option and merge my streaming queue into his. As for the dvd option, I need to think about it a little more. I currently keep around 15 titles in my queue where he has close to 300.
I think thought that $8 a month for streaming is well worth it. I think the selection is great and we watch it more than cable (that we are paying for just to be able to watch Stewart and Colbert nightly.)

oh, auto fill in on my mac, that was supposed to say I think though, not I think thought...

Funny that people are complaining about a $7.99 increase. It is still way cheaper than cable if $7.99 is that big of a deal why not just pay for streaming and use that $7.99 you are saving on Redbox movies......

It feels like Netflix streaming often doesn't have what I'm looking for. What other streaming options are there? I do like that I can stream Netflix from the Wii onto the big screen...

The email from Netfix made us want to act too. We decided to loose the dvd and stick with streaming. The adult content has seen better days, but you can't beat the kids selection. The ability to get in a crossfit workout while netfix and an ipad entertain my kid is worth $7 a month.

"What Netflix Isn’t Saying

Netflix jacked their rates for Instant Watch + DVD delivery and gave a lame-ass excuse for it. It was calculated to be lame, however, because if they used the real reason for it prices might go even higher.

The Internet’s memory is short so let’s go back a week ago to when Netflix lost the Sony movies and almost lost Starz. Why did that happen? Netflix WI subscribers passed a certain number specified in the contract with Starz and Sony and so they lost the right to stream that content. After some talks they came back online and now, one week later, Netflix is breaking apart their WI subscribers from their DVD subscribers. I find it hard to consider this a coincidence.

Having a ton of DVD viewers that are not using WI artificially inflated their WI subscriber numbers and almost invalidated a content contract. The only way to lower that number is to remove their access and only let people that want WI subscribe to it and pay into the service. So now WI isn’t a bundled service but one you ask for and pay for. This way, Netflix lowers their perceived WI subscriber count, keeps their content deals without renegotiations, and generally carries on.

So yes, it does seem like we are paying more for the same thing, and we are, but it’s not really Netflix doing this. Keep in mind also that in the last week we heard the news that while their current licensing is around a couple of million a year that by the end of 2012 the licensing costs are projected to be 2.1 billion-with-a-B dollars a year. They only made about $130M in profit last year. So while this rate shuffle is annoying, by the end of 2012 it’s just going to get plain bad, and it’s not Netflix doing it — it’s the studios.

Let’s direct our hate to those that deserve it, then. Netflix is caught in the middle here as they’re abiding the first rule of negotiating with a Goliath: never speak ill of your opponent, especially if they deserve it. They’re taking the flack for something out of their control, and it’s only going to get worse for them."

It was fun while it lasted.

eh I'll switch to DVD only and steal my dad's streaming password, old people are always the ones who unknowingly get sucked into these changes and taken advantage of. :)

Netflix is totally stuck in a no-win situation thanks to being raked over the coals in the contract renegotiations. It's a shame that Netflix will suffer, but it will lose people, no question. It used to be Netflix or cable was your choice (an easy one). But Netflix isn't the only game in town anymore. With Hulu and Amazon out there, it pays to shop around.

Lately Netflix's streaming content has been lousy anyway. When's the last time you saw something good in there that you just *had* to watch? They knew they'd have to jack up prices, but at the same time they should have given something back to the consumers. They need to update their streaming library, because right now it contains just a fraction of their wonderful selection of films.

If we keep our subscription at all, it'll be for foreign films on dvd. But we're not going to pay to stream rubbish like Mega-Shark Versus Giant Octopus, when we can get a better deal with Amazon Prime.

I'll suck it up and stay with my current streaming and 1 DVD at a time plan. I don't have cable, Hulu Plus makes you watch commercials, and their movie selections are lousy. For me, Netflix is still the cheapest option. Not at all happy about the price increase, though.

I was on the fence, but now seeing that Blu-ray is an ADDITIONAL $2... makes me lean toward dropping.

I'll drop my subscription to streaming only, and use Redbox for the few non-theater movies I watch. I'm sure eight movies a month at Redbox is more movies than what I could watch waiting for DVDs by mail. Although, another rate hike and I'll start watching OTA only.

Yep, I'm thinking about dropping Netflix. There's nothing good on streaming anymore, and the last time I got a DVD in the mail it was scratched.

Ditto. This is a conveniently timed nudge. We're very likely to ditch Netflix and go back to local rental. All the DVDs we get from Netflix are scratched anyway, and the streaming has not much that I want to watch. Plus, it's summer, I should be outside doing more important things, right?

Total ripoff. I watch too much streaming video anyway. Good time to cancel and reclaim my time.

Redbox FTW!!!!

I'm so glad they have a streaming only option, it's exactly what I've been waiting for and the price drop was a total cherry on top.

I feel exactly the same. At best I'll keep the streaming option, but now I'm looking into alternatives like Hulu Plus. Seems more cost efficient for my habits.

I cut my cable over a year ago then Netflix soon followed. I just wasn't watching either and now when I want to watch something I can find it streaming online for free or at the local library.

this sucks! i have 2dvds at anytime + streaming, but dont have internet or a TV at home so i would use DVDs but watch online at work during my lunch break or at someone elses home with internet service.

why not keep the pricing the same for its loyal customers and have new pricing plans for new members? phone companies do that.

this may make me rethink owning a TV/internet for streaming free on some other websites and cancel netflix altogther. at least I'd have internet available...sigh

My husband (who manages our netflix queue) and I have very different opinions on this. I agree it feels like a big screw you to their customers to up it as much as they are. Doing it gradually is more palatable to people if they must but come on, they don't have the biggest overhead and for customers who've been with them form the beginning, it really is a jerk move on their parts. Top that off with not being able to see newly released to dvd movies for a month or so after their release because of netflix's dumb rules. Sheesh.

My hubby however is ok with the hike, even though it means shelling out more. His thought is that for what it is, they should have been charging more to begin with and they're finally doing something about it.

Either way, this blows, Netflix.

I'm kind of surprised at how much everyone is whining. I think it's because folks are so used to not paying for content online. And yet they're fine paying crazy amounts for traditional TV and cable - no matter how weak the content offered.

We dumped our cable and only pay for streaming on Netflix and dvd shipments - which is such a bargain. The streaming on Netflix will hopefully become more robust. It's really weak with 'choices' at the moment. But the dvd selection is fantastic and quick.

I support Netflix and hope they thrive.

We are a family of five with varied tastes. I think its still a good value and will pay the higher price.

For my boyfriend and I, it's just not worth it. We don't have TV so that we don't waste our time watching it. Yet, with the streaming and DVDs that is exactly what we end up doing. Time to cut our loses and get back to reading at night. If we want to watch a good movie? The library it is!

Hulu plus is better for streaming (if you're streaming TV shows especially). IF we stay with Netflix, it will be for the blue ray discs. I intend to drop the streaming service when the new pricing goes into effect--despite the fact that I do occasionally stream some mediocre movies--on principal. Who do they think they are? If we all just roll over and take this price hike, what's to stop them from eventually charging the same as the evil bloated cable companies that many of us ditched?

it is not a "total ripoff" it is value for money....if you look at what the cable companies charge for their "channel packages" now that is outrageous, for a bunch of channels you don't even watch...I will be staying with netflix and dropping my cable "bundle" down to bare bones....don't need them don't watch them...watch all the TV shows I want on Netflix...including all the British Tv's you can't get here ..(BBCAmerica is a mere shell of what it used to be) so yes, I will pay and enjoy....and cancel most of my cable instead.....

if they would get more on streaming, i'm ok paying $8-$10 a month if that means at least half of the shows and movies i watch are available.

I watch at least 3 DVDs a week and at least 4 hours of netflix streaming per day

I wouldn't mind switching to streaming, but I'm hearing impaired and rely a lot on captions when I watch movies/ TV shows. They're getting better, but several of the movies and TV shows that are streamed still do not have captions available.

We haven't watch TV or Cable for two years... what we miss besides reality shows, singing and dancing contest, censored news programs, commercials of cars I do not need, drugs I do not want to buy or toys that will clutter my house? We used to have four "red envelopes" a month or so, then we switch to the streaming and some DVD's a month... now we will just do streaming for those days that mama (that is me) does not feel like going outside or needs 25 minutes by herself. Sucks about the DVD's, but at this moment, I rather save that 60% increase and buy some paint to fix something in my home.

@43percentburnt - that's a great point. interesting thinking.

I think this is one of the post actively commented posts on AT in awhile.

I gave up netflix awhile ago (just didn't work with my life, I always had envelopes unopened for a month or more). The things I did want to see were often loooooooooong waits (maybe they were sitting on someone else's entry table, unopened?) I was curious to see what others thought and felt.

Overall, for the paltry bit I watch, its to the library! Plus, I can refresh my reading at the same time :)

we killed our mail subscription & only kept the online feeds. we'll see how long that will stay interesting enough.

My Comcast internet @ about $55 + Netflix's new $16 for dvd and streaming for a total of $71 is getting pretty close to the cost of a decent cable package with high speed internet.

I wish they did an unlimited streaming with 1 dvd per month. I'd actually be happy with that because there are some things they have on dvd that aren't available streaming.

My initial reaction was to say I was going to cancel everything. I may keep a DVD only plan, but the email notice they sent out really rubbed me the wrong way. I had been debating quitting Netflix altogether for a few months anyway because I just don't have time time to watch a whole lot right now. But, that said, I do probably average about 1 movie a week, and I liked having the option to occasionally use the streaming content. A $7/mo increase isn't the end of the world - but, I don't feel like the streaming content they offer is worth it right now. It will probably get there in the next few years, but their selection just doesn't impress me. I think that I am better off just going to Redbox and the library.

I have been without cable for years. I love Netflix. I did change my subscription from the one disc at a time plus streaming to streaming only because of the price hike. Between Netflix streaming and Hulu+, I have enough content to make me very happy. And by switiching to streaming only, the price for me per month went down. For the occassional title that I really want to watch but can't stream, I buy off of iTunes.

I've been considering canceling for about a month now and this is giving me the push. I'll cancel in Sept before the price change goes into effect. When I first signed up, it was great cuz I was able to catch up on all the hard to get and old movies and tv shows that Redbox doesn't have. But recently the only movies I've wanted to see have been newer ones and I've even had to go to redbox a couple times-once cuz the movie I wanted had said Very Long Wait for a month and another because I wanted to watch a movie that night and had no DVD from Netflix and no good streaming options. What I do like is that it's on a monthly basis, so if I want to sign up for a month or so later on I can.

Not only am I unsubscribing, but my brother and my daughter have decided to stop receiving NetFlix, too. I'm disappointed in the decline of quality control (three damaged discs in as many months), the difficulties with subtitling for the hearing impaired and, above all, the expectation of Netflix for its users to keep furnishing free movie reviews despite the fact that NetFlix has abandoned the community that once was in its "Friends" feature.

I guess I'm in the minority in not being terribly bothered about this, since it's a good fit for my family. We don't subscribe to cable and don't have schedules that are particularly conducive to working around prime time tv hours for the few new shows we might want to watch, so Netflix has been it for us for a number of years. We've dabbled in other online options---Vudu, Hulu, Redbox---but keep coming back to Netflix because the others always had some dealbreaker. (The Vudu box, which we got as part of their pilot program, broke repeatedly and we finally just got sick of dealing with it; Hulu is only available on our computers.) Once Netflix started streaming to the TV (we use our Wii to watch it, but I think there are other options for people with more advanced equipment than our 15-year-old television!) we pretty much stopped watching the DVDs. So we're dropping the DVD half of the subscription and going to streaming only. With the few dollars we'll save a month, we'll probably get a movie from our local video store (helping to keep it in business!) every once in a while (and as someone above said, our library has a great collection of movies, too). Netflix streaming has been great for series television for us, but possibly that's just because we're not big TV watchers so we haven't seen many shows that others have been talking about forever. (Some of those series are also on cable or HBO/Showtime, so we wouldn't have access to them even if we could watch them real-time.) As a family with young children not yet of television-watching age, it's also super helpful to be able to watch tv on our own time and not have to try to jump into a show that's already started or miss it altogether because of a late bedtime (though I recognize that people with Tivo systems can do this too---but that costs money and has never made sense for us given that we don't get cable!)

I'm not jaded---I know that it's only a matter of years (or months??) before they raise the rates again and we're back to where we started, but honestly it seems like a fair deal for right now. It's expensive for Netflix to maintain both a good collection of DVDs and the rights to stream a good selection of movies and television shows, and with a bunch of people like us who never get around to opening the envelopes and watching/returning them (or, conversely, with people who have never streamed in their lives), I can understand the rationale for separating the two.

We're all lucky to have choices, right?! We'll keep the DVD option for my husband and self, as the streaming doesn't offer some harder to find or more recent films, and we'll keep the streaming for finding a kid-appropriate film on the spur of the moment. That said, I want to recommend Facets Multimedia for out-of-print and hard to find videos. They're local here in Chicago, but ship nationwide if you're interested in films that are outside of the mainstream hit pool. http://www.facetsmovies.com/user/homeNewUser2.php
Ultimately, supporting smaller rental outlets will insure that we all have as many choices as possible.

People are getting way too freaked out about this. Of course, netflix is looking toward their future and it's not dvds by mail. It can't be cheap for them to maintain mailing centers throughout the US and pay for licensing fees for streaming. I think they are just modifying their business model accordingly, not take advantage of all their customers.

I use the streaming daily via apple tv. We cancelled cable in several rooms and now just watch dvds or stream netflix on those tvs. If the dvd business goes down but streaming titles increase, I'll be happy.

I'm not cancelling my membership... netflix has been awesome. One day I imagine their streaming library will be more current and larger and I will cancel the dvds at the point (which is likely their business strategy). Cost is still way below cable.

Me: I will definitely cancel the DVD plan and stick with the other one.
Son: But weren't you going to order the weeds dvd's?
Me: You're right... maybe I'll order them and right after that I'll cancel.
(2 days later, me, overflowing from the couch after trying to watch a movie to finish an exhausting day... 12-ish am)
Son: Look!!! It's on instant!!! Weeds is on instant!!!
Me: No more huge book of kids' dvd's eternally sitting on the coffee table?... weeds on instant?... no more pointless strips of paper and useless red origami cranes I keep folding out of the even more useless tear off half of the envelope??? Yes, please. I'm staying with instant streaming. With only one tv set in the house, taking turns to use it makes my $7.99 worthy :)

Nevermind... once I felt awake enough to watch weeds 6 I realized son didn't read the whole thing. No weeds 6 on instant? oh well... I still like the no more huge dvd carrier on the coffee table :)

Right now I'm on the streaming plus 1 DVD out at a time plan. I would totally just do streaming but they don't offer everything on streaming. I'm hoping I'll finish Six Feet Under before they raise the price because I don't think 1 DVD at a time is worth $16 a month.

I think splitting up the two types of content was a mistake. We occasionally watch the online content, but the selection is pretty lame, so it wouldn't be worth subscribing to that alone. We supplement with DVD's for the things we really want to see and are willing to wait for, but we don't rent enough of them to warrant a separate subscription. For us, the combined DVD/online content made it just barely worth it to stay a subscriber.

Now, if they got the rights to stream more current content, even at a higher price, I would be happy to pay for that. We susbcribe to Hulu plus for the more current TV content to supplement our network-only cable plan.

I have the 1 DVD plus streaming version now. What bugs me is that the latest season of a show tends to be ONLY available on disk. If it weren't for that, I'd be fine with only streaming.

Without notice, Netflix just changed how many movies can be watched on different devices at the same time. So as our daughter is watching re-runs of the Andy Griffith show on the Wii, we can't watch a movie. Too much to ask for a heads up? Was Netflix purchased over night by one of the networks or MPAA? After the price hike, they come back with this. Making it even more odd is that they are linking the number of watch sessions to the number of DVDs you can have out. How does that make sense?

Q: Can I watch movies instantly on more than one PC or Netflix-ready device?

A: Some membership plans allow you to watch simultaneously on more than one personal computer or Netflix-ready device. If you are on the Unlimited Streaming plan, the Unlimited Streaming + 1 DVD out-at-a-time plan or a limited streaming plan, you may watch only one device at a time.
If you are on the Unlimited Streaming + 2 DVDs out-at-a-time plan, you may watch on up to two devices at a time. Members on the Unlimited Streaming + 3 DVDs out-at-a-time plan may watch on up to three devices at a time. The maximum is four devices at a time -- available for members on the Unlimited Streaming + 4-or greater DVDs out-at-a-time plan.

I decided to cancel my subscription and not to take the chance to get charged way more since I use it so little. It used to be a great deal but with the 60% increase in price ..
I call boycott!

Now, does anyone know what can Netflix be replace with while delivering the same service as Netflix does for cheaper ?

I have a PS3, so if anyone know how I could get the same satisfactory than Netflix use to give me, pass your knowledge down please!
Thanks