Buffy ,'Chosen'
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I doubt they had much choice. Their studio deals will be expiring in the next year or two, and those will be a lot more expensive next time. DVD sales are dropping so streaming revenue is a bigger deal to the studios, and now there's actually competition.
Pachter predicts Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180 million in 2010 to a whopping $1.98 billion in 2012.
All of this is probably why they've been looking into original content as well.
All those dwarves really look like paintings. I think Kili is the first one where I was very familiar with the actor, though.
As I said elsewhere, a hot dwarf just seems all wrong. He doesn't seem to have any facial prosthesis at all!
The new pricing bites though. Beau uses physical media while I only stream. So one of us is going be unhappy or we double the price.
I guess their plan is to have everyone cancel the DVDs? Must be their plan.
Well, it's going to send me in the opposite direction unless they vastly expand what's available for streaming. I can probably watch everything in my queue that's available instantly within a month of dedicated viewing, but DVD selection is in the low 100s.
I can probably watch everything in my queue that's available instantly within a month of dedicated viewing
They own me. I will never finish my streaming queue. I have 200+ discs, and ~200 queued streaming. Ah, well.
Oh, that blows. Unlimited streaming + 1 DVD out is perfect for us, but not at twice the price.
Grr. Us too. My instinct is just to drop the DVD.
I think I am going to drop the DVD.
Does anyone know how to get a new red envelope? I am sitting on 2 DVD's because I have no envelope.
Honestly, unlimited streaming + 1 DVD out for $9.99 a month (which is what we do too) is awesome, but WAY underpriced for what you get, in my opinion. I think it's only that price now because when it began, streaming was mostly a curiosity, without enough selection to be worth it. So the pricing was low.
Remember, until very recently Blockbuster was charging $3-$5 per DVD rental. To watch anywhere close to as much content as I watch with Netflix 1 DVD + unlimited streaming would cost me $40+ a month, easily, in that world. We can do one DVD of Friends or an equivalent amount of Sports Night in a day, and often do. I'm willing to pay $16 a month for that.
