You get on the Netflix plan thinking you’ve scored such a great deal. Unlimited movies per month! By the time I’m done plundering the cinema archives, I’ll be only paying cents a film! Take that, movie theater and rental store! But then slowly your interest wanes as the novelty wears off. Soon that early Bergman flick is collecting dust and you realize you’re paying a monthly fee for a red and white coffee coaster…
If this describes you, it’s a good time to reevaluate whether you could downgrade your Netflix package to fewer discs and still be okay with life.
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After sitting on a DVD for a month that I was going to get to eventually I realized something about Netflix – its NOT BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO!
If you aren’t going to watch the DVD today, tomorrow or the next day…simply send it back! You can add it back to your queue to watch later.
I was still operating under the idea that I had rented a single disk..when I’ve been paying $15 a month to have access to their library.
That concept freed me from the obligation to watch a movie before sending it back, and feeling like I was somehow paying wasting money.
I’ve had the same two movies since October 2008.
I have been using the streaming quite a lot though so I don’t feel too bad. I
I’m hoping that the change in pricing will help prevent this hanging on. There are some shows that I keep having to move down my queue because disc 1 is a long wait and Netflix will send me disc 2 first. If you aren’t watching it then for the love of chronological order please send them back!
In principle, I love the streaming, but is anyone else here annoyed by the fact that there are still a HUGE number of titles still available only on DVD and not digitally?
I mean older, catalog titles – new ones, I can understand there’d be a “window” to allow DVD sales to own the home distrib channel for a while.
THIS JUST IN…
They’re finally releasing The Six Million Dollar Man on DVD! I dearly hope Netflix gets this and puts it on streaming. If they do, I’ll stream like crazy!
http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=7645410&render=y&Table=&ch=ne
That was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
This is why I wait for my once a year free trial.
Watch all I want and then cancel.
I’m on the tail end of a free trial right now. I have watched 20 movies via streaming in the past 3 weeks. Many of those films I never knew existed until Netflix recommended them! For all of my adult life so far, I’ve relied exclusively upon bittorrent and occasional trips to the local art theatre for all of my movie watching needs. Netflix may have changed my ways, as I am seriously considering paying $7.99/month for the streaming only plan. Now that I’ve voted on nearly every movie I’ve ever seen, the “movies you’ll love” are always spot on. The extent of Netflix’s awesomeness is uncanny.