Netflix raising their fee by 6 dollars!

They don't have good enough quality or selection to do that!

Holy moly. Well one more reason we're going to cancel on the 26th of this month. We were going to cancel last month but I forgot to do so before our billing day.

They never implementing Closed Captioning on the Watch Instantly and they promised it last summer!

Ugh I know what you mean! I was waiting for over a month for them to fix the Dexter episodes, reporting them every single day. According to the comments people have been waiting longer and for all I know, they're still waiting for them lol. I gave up and watched them somewhere else.

They are raising prices so that they can increase their selection of both movies on instant watch and on dvd. The production studios have caught on to the fact that this is the way the future is looking so they jacked the cost up for companies like Netflix, Redbox, Cable companies etc. to be able to run their businesses. There is a whole reddit thread going on about this. If you want the link I will share it.

I Honestly I will be more than happy to pay the extra money for it. We canceled cable because 99% of the things we want to watch are on netflix or hulu. If its not on those two, half the cable companies have stuff online the next day. $16 a month VS $50 for cable tv...yeah guess which we pick.

I've never had a bad experience with them. The only time our video has sucked has been our internet servers fault, not theirs. We restarted our router and all was well again. And the few times we had a damaged dvd we had another copy or our next in line the next day basically. Although it helps that the shipment center is in the same state...

That will be fixed by the end of the year. http://blog.netflix.com/2011/02/30-o...ntent-has.html

Just trying to get some other opinions out there

I guess that's where the difference is. Most of the things we watch on Netflix streaming are available for free on Hulu or other websites. We pretty much pay for the convenience of being able to stream it through our ps3 plus a show/movie here and there that aren't available for free anywhere. Not worth paying $8 on its own if I'm already paying $11 for 2 dvds. I rather pay the $6 to get local channels.

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like we'll be dropping them.

At first I was outraged, but I watch more stuff on Instant than I do on DVD now anyway, so $7.99 for instant isn't too bad. We'll cut back to 1 rather than 2 DVDs unlimited, and the cost will stay pretty much the same.

They will be moving more to Instant, which is understandable - there's more issues with DVDs, so it makes sense.

It's still a lot cheaper than a night at the movies, and given we have about 300 movies in our DVD queue and maybe 80 in our Instant queue (plus a bunch of TV series), we've never had issues trying to find something to watch.

Gary and I have the habit of watching tv shows from Episode 1. We will not start midway through a season. We actually just finished LOST tonight! And I watch both Netflix and Hulu at work. We were actually debating on getting Hulu+ too so that we can watch the few shows that arent on netflix or that we keep up with the next day instead of waiting for the end of the season.

We've never had an issue w/ Netflix - DVDs arrive promptly, never had one damaged. We've had it probably 1.5 years? We may drop down in how many DVDs we receive, as we just don't watch that many anymore.....we do watch instantly fairly often.

And IMO, w/ everything else in the world getting more $$, doesn't surprise me they raise their prices, too.

im pretty sure we are dropping down to the $5.99 2 dvds per month limited plan.... im not paying $16 a month for movies, i rather GO to the movies every 2 months with mu husband on a date nite instead

Shipping DVDs is an outdated business model that they need to transition off of and encourage streaming.

It is very expensive to produce a physical copy of a DVD, store it, sort it, mail it, receive it back, sort it, replace it if its damaged, and repeat. Restamping damaged BluRay disks is particularly pricey, and all but a few less intelligent or painfully honest Ned Flanderers will actually admit that they were the ones that damaged the disk and will pay for it out of pocket, and for the rest there is no way to prove it wasn't cracked or scratched in shipment. And when people fail to return disks, it is of no value to them, and Netflix pays for number of licenses it has in circulation at any given time, so it is a lose-lose situation.

It costs only around 1-2cents though to distribute media digitally, and there are no real incidental costs. If they were to implement a P2P network system, as is done for World of Warcraft for example (well, and 99% of piracy), their costs would be virtually nil.

Netflix has essentially encouraged streaming and discouraged DVD shipment by reducing the cost of streaming and increasing the cost of DVD shipment, a wise move IMO.

The problem though is that their media library isn't as complete for streaming, but that is NOT Netflix's fault, its the fault of the media industry as they hold the rights and many refuse to grant a license for online distribution. Their greed is going to bite them in the butt in the long term.

I completely agree. It's frustrating from a pocketbook standpoint but I have never had a single problem and Netflix is something I use every single day because I don't have cable. I'm a documentary junkie and they have a huge selection. Plus, more & more things are being added to streaming, so I'm not jumping ship.

I'd go with the streaming if they all had closed captioning. 80% by end of the year is not good enough for me.. I want 100%. I don't want to be disappointed if there's a movie I really want to watch and it does not have CC.

I'm going to cancel. not worth it anymore, I barely watch movies anymore either

There is no way I will ever pay for movies OR my favorite shows ever again when everything is available for download for free these days.

Do you mean illegally? Too much risk involved in that. I don't want a virus OR five years in federal prison. And if you think it can't happen to you, I refer you to this video.

No, of course you're not. I'm the only one who's NOT upset about it, ! I've been a Netflix customer for more than three years, and always marveled at how inexpensive I thought it was. It's not a shock and not an outrage to me, personally. But I understand that lots & lots of people are upset.

Yup, saw this coming, Netflix is now quite officially transitioning out of the DVD mail-shipment business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=c8Tn8n5CIPk

DVD mail business is now spun off into a separate new company division called Qwikster. I would wager that this is simply brand damage control, as Qwikster investment is likely to be minimal and declining, while Netflix moves into the future with increased investment in a purely digital distribution model.

So while technically Netflix "raised prices" for anyone that was doing mail-shipment, they did actually reduce prices for those that were just using the streaming service by $3.

Netflix reported last week that their customer base erosion was much large than they expected, and there is real concern in the market that they might not survive it. My guess is they will, but with an entirely different customer base.

Are you KIDDING ME?! I'm only on the free trial period and was considering purchasing it but now forget it! Their selection is terrible I can NEVER find the movie I want!!

I'm on the xbox netflix thingy where you don't have to get the dvd you can just instantly watch from there.

Stop N' Shop has a "Red Box".. $1 DVD/Blu Ray per night. I use that when I want to watch a movie and its a block away on my way home from work, so I won't be going out of my way for it. Cheaper than $5 for 2 DVDs, or whatever Netflix is charging these days

They're generally up-to-date on DVDs, and I am happy with their selection. You can also buy select used DVDs for $5 too.

I got an email this morning about them raising their prices, with an "explanation" behind it. I probably will keep them around. We haven't had any problems with Netflix yet. We do watch streaming and Instant quite often now (have been watching "Bones" seasons 1-5 for the last couple months - we'll watch an episode a night, sometimes two. Hoping season 6 pops up on there soon!)

I have a HUGE queue of movies waiting to be shipped - I think I'm up to 97 that I want to see. Until we start having real issues with it, we'll keep them. I do understand though how some people would be upset with it!

Netflix shot themselves in the foot with this decision.

Netflix Shares Plummet

Netflix DVD service to be renamed, an explaination from the CEO

In the end, digital distribution is more future proof and more cost effective and allows them to market globally, and their pure digital accounts were ~ 22 million compared to only 2 million for pure hardcopy accounts.

After all, the US population is less than a 20th of the world population they could reach digitally, but w/ hardcopy its difficult and expensive to expand into foreign countries that all need their own offices, their own libraries with appropriately region formatted disks, their own distribution, etc. The license costs and logistics are just so much higher.

The reason I don't have netflix though is that last I checked, their digital library sucked compared to their hardcopy library.

Supposedly that was not by choice, but more due to a battle with the rights holders refusing to license digital copies, or wanting to only distribute digitally themselves and not through netflix. So my guess is that by raising the price of DVD shipment accounts (and then abandoning it into a separate division/site) while simultaneously reducing the price of digital streaming accounts, they were hoping that they'd be able to increase the number of digital subscribers and use that as leverage against the media industry to pressure them into releasing more to them digitally or losing sales.

I think it's an incredibly smart move for them for the long-term business. They're ensuring streaming which is the future stays alive and well, while the DVD mailing is run as a separate entity. I think it still has its place, but they can easily shut it down in the future if needed without affecting the streaming.

They would have different charges from the studios for licensing for DVDs vs streaming, so why charge streaming only customers extra for DVD licensing if that's not what they use? I think they are in a healthy enough state to sacrifice some customers now in return for long-term growth.