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So for folks like me, who have Unlimited Streaming + 1 Disc + Bluray, we've been paying $11.99 before taxes. Now, we'll be paying $17.99. That is a very signi

So for folks like me, who have Unlimited Streaming + 1 Disc + Bluray, we've been paying $11.99 before taxes. Now, we'll be paying $17.99. That is a very significant increase and very unfortunate. I don't begrudge what they're doing: Weaning you off your DVD habit and onto their streaming service. But I just think they are jumping the gun. Get some more first-run content available first. As it is, I'm going to take it on the chin and pay the extra $6, but with a lot less love for Netflix, for at least a little while until I forget about this.

ctdonath 15y ago
"I don't begrudge what they're doing: Weaning you off your DVD habit and onto their streaming service." Neither would I, if they weren't REDUCING the streaming service from my perspective. Dozens of movies on my streaming queue have disappeared before I could get to them - something I didn't mind so much so long as I could at least get the disc version. General consensus seems: if pretty much everything were available streaming, fine - but it's not, and it's that "not" part which is small enough to make the DVD plan too expensive yet the content is personally important enough that we'll pay anyway.
- encoderer 15y ago
  I agree, I hate that. The nuts and bolts don't matter, bad service is bad service, but in case you're just curious, the reason that most often happens is due to their StarzPlay agreement. A lot of the decent newer movies on their service come from their contract with Starz to stream any of the movies currently playing on that network. Well, Starz only gets movies for a certain period (same as any other TV network). So when the run is over on Starz, it's removed from netflix as well. This isn't the entire story, but I've found 9/10 of the movies that are removed from my instant queue are because of this.

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So for folks like me, who have Unlimited Streaming + 1 Disc + Bluray, we've been paying $11.99 before taxes. Now, we'll be paying $17.99. That is a very signi

by encoderer 15y ago

ctdonath 15y ago
"I don't begrudge what they're doing: Weaning you off your DVD habit and onto their streaming service." Neither would I, if they weren't REDUCING the streaming service from my perspective. Dozens of movies on my streaming queue have disappeared before I could get to them - something I didn't mind so much so long as I could at least get the disc version. General consensus seems: if pretty much everything were available streaming, fine - but it's not, and it's that "not" part which is small enough to make the DVD plan too expensive yet the content is personally important enough that we'll pay anyway.
- encoderer 15y ago
  I agree, I hate that. The nuts and bolts don't matter, bad service is bad service, but in case you're just curious, the reason that most often happens is due to their StarzPlay agreement. A lot of the decent newer movies on their service come from their contract with Starz to stream any of the movies currently playing on that network. Well, Starz only gets movies for a certain period (same as any other TV network). So when the run is over on Starz, it's removed from netflix as well. This isn't the entire story, but I've found 9/10 of the movies that are removed from my instant queue are because of this.