It's only a steal if everything you want to watch is on Netflix. If you want to watch stuff that's not on Netflix, when you start adding in $7.99 for Hulu, $9.

It's only a steal if everything you want to watch is on Netflix. If you want to watch stuff that's not on Netflix, when you start adding in $7.99 for Hulu, $9.99 (?) for Disney, $14.99 for HBO, etc then you're getting into the same price range you used to pay for cable. Netflix used to be a much better deal when it had a much larger movie catalog, but as content owners have cut back how much they are willing to license to Netflix (and/or made it more affordable), it's not such an amazing deal any more. I'd gladly pay a provider $30/month if they had all of the content that was available. I don't think music streaming would be nearly as popular if you had to subscribe to a half dozen different providers to hear all of the music you want. It doesn't even have to be a monopoly, providers should set one rate for their content, and others can buy it and monetize it any way they want.