Netflix giving customers the shaft

[Sect122Mike]

Maybe its just in the South but we have rental boxes,big red box,,throw in your debit card grab a movie for a buck.I just wish netflix would add more inventory to their streaming library,but its a sign of the times,blu ray seems to be bombing and dvds may go the way of the cassette.

We have those boxes here in Mass ... they are a great deal.  Works out to a buck .06 w/ tax for brand new releases.


 We have an apple TV box that connects to the Itunes rental library (pretty good, extensive, and reasonably priced).  That box was about a hundred bucks.  BUT it allows us to stream netflix, UTube and other online content ridiculously fast directly to our HDTV.  I pay the $8/ month netflix stream only service and we watch hundreds of movies (or parts of them) per month + a few on demand new releases and are happy both with the service and the price.  If the stream price were to exceed $12-15/month without major increases in inventory, I would probably drop netflix.  Unless they included their new releases ... then I'd probably keep it.

Once my contract with directTV is up, we plan to drop it altogether.  We are going to stream hulu plus, netflix and watch the non hulu network shows online, for a total of less than $25 per month.  If only hbo would go solo stream, we would be all set. 

[MightyGiants]

Here is a good article


http://money.msn.com/saving-money/article.aspx?post=7bb2fd78-bee7-4d04-944d-52f798a8b417&GT1=33026

[dasher]

Jim Cramer says "Brilliant" move by Netflix to get consumers over to the highly profitable streaming video delivery system.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43740688/Cramer_Why_Netflix_s_Price_Hike_Makes_Sense

[weeze]

jim kramer+the guy who told everyone not only is bearstearns stock solvent but buy more 4 days before it crashed.
 he also said lenny dykstra had a uncanny knack for investments!