<p>To answer youdon’tsay–in the early days of Netflix, all movies came into/out of one distribution center. Later on they added many more regional mailing facilities, and I’ve always been surprised at how quick the turnaround is. I live somewhat rurally, but if I mailed back a disc on Monday, I’d often have the next one in my mailbox on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Re: the switch in pricing, I thought Netflix had been fairly open for the last year or two about wanting to move to all-streaming. I still haven’t decided–we do use the streaming more than the discs (have had the same one at my house for about a month, but I’m blaming DH for that). We have a roku (and I think they’re down to $50-$60), but Netflix is the only subscription channel we get. I’d be happy to hear about others that people think are worthwhile. The TV we have the roku hooked up to does not get any TV channels (if that makes sense), so we use the roku virtually every day, particularly now that the kids are out of school.</p>
<p>I’ll be dropping streaming and keeping DVDs-by-mail, at least long enough to get caught up with Dexter. (I’m halfway through season four.) I’ll cancel after that unless I get hooked on another series.</p>
<p>I’ll cancel after that unless I get hooked on another series.</p>
<p>I was in the middle of a Doc Martin episode & Netflix did away with streaming anything but the first 6 shows.
( but it is still cheaper than cable)</p>
<p>Oh, drat! I’m a few shows in to Doc Martin, too. There’s some twitter feed that notes when shows are going to expire from streaming, but I don’t check often enough. Things do seem to come back into rotation.</p>
<p>I only recently signed up for Netflix streaming, and have been so disappointed by the choices and the poor video quality through our Wii (would have to buy a Roku to get HD) that I was about to add the mail option. Now, I wonder if it makes sense. I, too, miss being able to pop over to a well-stocked video store and pick up something interesting at the spur of the moment. We have one tiny video store way across town that’s still hanging in there. It’s far, but I might just pay a visit…</p>
<p>Can someone tell me about the Amazon service? Can movies be streamed to TV? HD? How is the selection and the quality of the transmission?</p>
<p>i just found out about this and am disappointed. I have my account on hold until I start a job sometime this summer and have been looking forward to reactivating it. I won’t be able to afford it now and will have to cancel. </p>
<p>We still have a real blockbuster, but I haven’t been in years because I just assumed they’d be going out of business. I got netflix because with the frequency I like to rent movies it was cheaper and Blockbuster doesn’t have any selection at all of older movies. I can’t really afford to be renting movies at blockbuster all the time either.</p>
<p>Strangely, in my situation this price hike makes going to the movie theater the cheapest option of all.</p>
<p>another person here who wants to know about Amazon Streaming with the prime subscription; I spent 30 minutes last night trying to figure it out…</p>
<p>Is it unlimited streaming for the $39/year? or does that just give you the ability to “rent” the movies? How much is it after the year is up (the free trial for Prime is over)?</p>
<p>has anyone tried it yet? There is a disclaimer that you cannot download to a MAC, but not sure that’s important…</p>
<p>I’m gonna try to call Amazon after lunch and get the “scoop”; I’ll post later…</p>
<p>if you have more than one kid in college, they could share the Nexflix streaming for the same price as the two Amazon $39 subscriptions (unless they can share that too?)</p>
<p>MommaJ, Amazon Prime says there are 6000 titles available for instant streaming that are included for free with your Amazon Prime membership. You can also purchase or rent additional titles via Amazon Instant Video–I think it’s around 90,000 titles. You don’t need to belong to Amazon Prime to purchase instant video. To stream Amazon videos to your tv, you’ll need a compatible device like a Roku, or an internet-ready TV or a Blu-Ray player with the Amazon app. These devices will also allow you to stream Netflix in HD. You could also hook up your computer to your TV, though you might need a special cable (look at meritline or monoprice online rather than paying $$$$ at Best Buy). </p>
<p>We watched the most recent season of “Mad Men” by purchasing it from Amazon instant video. You could purchase it as regular or HD format, with HD being slightly more expensive. Newer stuff is more expensive, but there are movies available that rent for $3 or less.</p>
<p>I think we’ll drop down to one disk at a time (now we have two, and we don’t take advantage of it) and maybe eventually drop Netflix altogether. We have a Mac Mini hooked up to our TV, and even though H and I are real bird-brains about it, I think we can figure out the Amazon streaming (we have a Prime account). The Netflix price increases irritate me.</p>
<p>I understand Netflix has to raise their prices because the studios that provide content are asking for more money, but a 60% raise if you want to continue to receive DVDs and be able to stream is ridiculous. </p>
<p>However, I’m surprised by people who lament the loss of the video store. In the waning years of Blockbuster, the selection was horrible, especially if you wanted a classic or indie film. </p>
<p>Streaming is good enough for me. The selection could definitely be better, but there’s always some thing to watch. I’m not the type of person who ever NEEDS to watch anything, so this will not really affect me.</p>
<p>Are you sure? We currently have the 2 at a time disk plan and it is showing that this is still available under the billing history info. They show that plan available after Sept. 1 with a price increase.</p>
<p>BTW, just read an article by PCWorld.com. It was comparing Netflix to Amazon streaming. Netflix apparently has 4 x (about 20,000 vs. 5,000) the number of titles currently that are available for streaming. Correct me if this is wrong. </p>
<p>I was considering going to the one at a time plan with streaming, but is that going to be available through Netflix?</p>
<p>I dropped my Netflix months ago because we live in the Boonies and have only Dish Network as an option for TV reception. When they offered free movie channels for a year (Cinemax maybe?) I dropped Netflix like a hot potato because I was ordering all of these DVD’s for DH that he would hold onto for a month or more without watching. Waste of money…</p>
<p>Then I thought I might upgrade to an iPhone on AT&T for the streaming possibilities in order to listen to movies and TV series etc while at work. Of course, AT&T had to go and put those ridiculous caps on their Data plans (and we were not grandfathered in). So I was waiting out my contract (a couple of months) to move over to Verizon. Low and behold Verizon decided to cap their data plans as well. Now Netflix has put the final nail in the iPhone coffin for me. (we don’t have a Wifi network at work for employees to use for personal use) Poor me boo hoo (just kidding). Guess I will have to live on podcasts on the old iPod for the rest of my working days lol.</p>
<p>I would gladly drop streaming and pay the same amount to get three by mail instead of my current one-at-a-time, as would many people, I expect, but it appears that this is not what they plan to offer.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read, one at a time unlimited disc with unlimited streaming will still be available-- that’s what I have. </p>
<p>It’s frustrating for me because I ALMOST use streaming exclusively, but when I want to watch a SPECIFIC movie (ie not just looking for SOMETHING to watch) and it’s not available to stream (ie almost ALL THE TIME), I use the disc rental feature to get what I want. If you’re someone that actually uses netflix to watch anything specific you need the disc feature, but if you use it more casually you need the streaming feature. Either you pick one or the other or pay out the nose for both.</p>
<p>northeastmom, thanks for the catch–my parents have 1 disk at a time + streaming and the email they got implied that there was only going to be the 3 disk plan. The DVD-only plans will be $8 a month for 1 DVD at a time, and $12 for 2 DVDs at a time. If someone’s not using streaming, this looks like a price drop.</p>
<p>FWIW, we love Redbox for new(ish) releases. We have one less the a mile from the house so it’s really easy and great for spur of the moment which redbox DVD by mail isn’t. We have streaming and 1 at a time. We will keep the streaming so my son can log-in at college and watch, but I am not paying $8/month to get 1 movie out at a time. Our cable bill is insane considering we watch on TV primarily and don’t have HBO, etc. With internet we pay $150/mo. It’s obscene really. </p>
<p>I’ve looked briefly at Amazon and wondered what it would take to get set up/if it would be worth it to switch from netflix streaming. We have a blueray player but I don’t know what else we would need. Just one more thing for DH to look into. If it’s only $30/year with a Prime account then perhaps I’ll move it up on the to-do list.</p>
<p>It doesn’t look like a price drop to me. I currently pay $8 for streaming plus one DVD at a time. Soon I’ll pay the same and get the same DVD plan but no streaming, right?</p>
