I SPLIT [SPIT] on your grave?!.....uh oh, Netflix just raised their rates AND.....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....SPLITTING DVD rental......from streaming.....so you now have to pay TWICE as much [$7.99 times 2 - $7.99 for DVD rentals and $7.99 for streaming. that is a 100% increase!!].....

.....effective now for new customers......starts September 1 for current customers.....enjoy.....!!


Netflix Introduces New Plans and Announces Price Changes

Jessie Becker, here to share two significant changes at Netflix with you.

First, we are launching new DVD only plans. These plans offer our lowest prices ever for unlimited DVDs – only $7.99 a month for our 1 DVD out at-a-time plan and $11.99 a month for our 2 DVDs out at-a-time plan. By offering our lowest prices ever, we hope to provide great value to our current and future DVDs by mail members. New members can sign up for these plans by going to DVD.netflix.com.

Second, we are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into separate plans to better reflect the costs of each and to give our members a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan or the option to subscribe to both. With this change, we will no longer offer a plan that includes both unlimited streaming and DVDs by mail.

So for instance, our current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:

Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming), for $7.99 a month.

The price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). For new members, these changes are effective immediately; for existing members, the new pricing will start for charges on or after September 1, 2011......


the SKY'S the limit......??

[Trouble]

Cool. I never using the streaming so I'm saving money by switching to the DVD only plan.

[M A V I C]

Blah, kinda sucks. I'll pay it, but only because it's still much cheaper than cable TV.

[(vikm)]

Netflix can suck it. I'll Redbox stuff and actually save money with a number of others who are planning the same thing. Here's hoping we don't all live in the same area so we're not fighting the already existing customers of Redbox.

It'll be interesting to see what further options/offerings Apple may have in store. I think this is a really bad move for Netflix. There are a number of options for people now and that extra fee will make the decision easy for them. Had they done it via the lobster effect and not hiked it so much at one time, people may have been ok with it. Seems a poor decision.

[M A V I C]

If Redbox ever had anything in stock, they might be an alternative in this area. To me Redbox is a complete waste of time. Every single time we've tried to use them we've searched several locations and never found a movie it had that I wanted to watch.

[freeradical]

There is no inflation.

[bazookaman]

what a load of crap. i have to say i'm either going to drop it completely or drop one or the other. I've rather enjoyed renting my one movie at a time and letting my daughter enjoy her cartoons streaming. I wish I could just arbitrarily double my salary.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I assume the "DVD" plan includes Blu-ray? I would (strongly) argue that it shouldn't - a DVD is an entirely different item than a Blu-ray.

[bazookaman]

blu-ray has always been extra.

[Trouble]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I assume the "DVD" plan includes Blu-ray? I would (strongly) argue that it shouldn't - a DVD is an entirely different item than a Blu-ray.

BR is @ $1 - $2 more per disk allotment per month. Adding BR to a 1 disk per month plan is $2 per month. Adding BR to a 2 disk per month plan is $3 and so on.