Heads up.....Netflix to increase fee from $7.99 to 15.98 for streaming + physical DVD plan

[masmdu]

However you can do just streaming for 7.99

http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/12/netflix-dvd-only-unlimited-plan-appears-price-for-streaming-and/

[Cant trust em]

1. I hope that at least some people call their bluff.

My wife and I are cancelling our subscription.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. I canceled about an hour ago

might come back eventually but I wanted to make a statement


Hulu Plus will give you a week free so I may try that for a while. Same price as Netflix for just streaming.

If they do some package deal for something like $12.99 I will come back to them but for now they lost a customer.

[Cass]

3. The streaming choices are limited, they need to upgrade that.

Why not stream it all?

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. That and they just lost the Starz contract

All Starz programming has been pulled because Netflix' subscriber headcounts exceeded the Sony/Starz contract limit.

[Drale]

4. To you guys who are canceling

Good luck finding a cable package or renting movies from a store for 15 dollars a month.

[Pryderi]

5. Just cancelled. Streaming has nothing I want. Hulu Plus, here I come!

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. I have watched TV shows on Hulu - do they do movies as well

(recent releases)?

What do they charge?

[Pryderi]

14. No recent movies.

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. Ah. Thanks.

I watched all of the episodes of The Event on Hulu as I could never remember to tune in when it aired. Never checked out what else they did.

[Lisa0825]

6. Anyone know what Amazon offers?

I clicked around for like 10 minutes and never found a straight answer as to what kind of deals they have for their video streaming plans. Is it just per video as opposed to monthly plans?

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Actually it is $9.99 to $15.98 (60% increase) effective with the September bill

Here is the email. I posted it earlier:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1473874&mesg_id=1474214

[AnOhioan]

8. You guys realize you can cancel streaming all together...

and just go with a dvd only plan....they lowered some pricing for dvd only.

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. DVD and Streaming went to $7.99 each from $9.99 combined

They combined them to $15.98 to stream + 1 DVD at a time (unlimited). They split the business into 2 units - one for streaming and one for mail DVD.

Good news as reported by some DUers who have the 3 DVD at a time plan and can't stream as they cut costs.

Sucks for those of us on the 1 DVD plan who might do 1 DVD every 6 weeks while streaming weekly because of the limited titles they offer on streaming video.

[AnOhioan]

18. I had two dvd's plus streaming for 14.99......dropped streaming

now paying 11.99

[Shagbark Hickory]

11. 'Good grief. Does this topic need to be posted like 4 times an hour? Like this is earth shattering

news or something.

$7.99 for unlimited movies is a great deal. And the movies even come to you for free.

You can't even hardly get a sandwich for $8 now.

[B Calm]

13. Predatory Capitalism or Freedom, you decide!

Make a nice bumper sticker.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Well, production houses know this is the future of distribution and contracts are coming back up in

2012-2014.

I heard a few years ago that the defining image of the 1930s depression was the photo(s) of the soup lines, and in the 2010s will be the blue glow from the TV shining through the solitary window over the garage where a family has been forced to move back in with their elderly parents.

Poetic for this topic. In a sad and depressing way.

[S_E_Fudd]

17. Netflix isn't a charity...

They do have a right to make money. It has been clear for sometime they would need to raise prices. The studios are putting the squeeze on them for the right to stream their catalogs. A victim of their own success.

Still a far better deal than Cable, PPV or RedBox...

[KarenS]

19. Yep,,,,, I think we'll be going the other way, tho,,,,

We'll keep the streaming and cancel the DVD option.

We use Amazon for streaming the new release movies anyway.

It's their business and they can do what they want,,,, but so can I. :P

[mysuzuki2]

20. Well, why not?

now that video rental stores are almost non-existent. Isn't that what any monopoly would do?

[cutlassmama]

21. Thanks for posting this. I had only heard a tidbit and was wondering what

the deal was.