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Post your comments for Goodbye, Netflix DVDs...Hello, Redbox here

[Kadidelhopper]

Some of us can't stand the crappy vcr like video quality of the "streaming" from netflix. What do you say about that? That you have went into a time machine back to the early 90's? That it looks "ok" yeah that's what i thought. Don'
t push your vcr video onto us. Some of us like good video and audio. Others are like you.

[AlexHumva]

To the above; if your quality isn't good, your internet isn't good. If you have anything above three megabits though, you should be getting better quality; do you live in Canada? You have to manually select quality there now.

Me, with my netflix movies, I can get above two a week; send out movie on Monday, get new one on Wednesday, send out Thursday, receive new one on Saturday. Not all that hard, but I guess I'm just lucky, having faster mail service.

Seeing as there's no Redbox near by, and to drive to one would cost more in gas than to rent the movie, I don't see Netflix's DVD service going out the window quite yet. Besides, a six dollar increase, while it does equal to an extra seventy two dollars a year, is not going be THAT big of a deal.

This post has been edited by AlexHumva: 30 August 2011 - 03:23 PM

[RogerPack]

Definitely I think people will switch to streaming only + redbox. Why spend the $6 on DVD's you never watch when you could spend it on a new release from redbox?

[puterdood]

If the movies that are on disk could be converted to streaming, then I would definitely cut out the disk option in a heartbeat. If Netflix wants to nudge people away from disks, raising the price aint the way to do it. They should have converted all the popular movies and shows to streaming, THEN raised the price. I have had very good results overall out of the streaming service. Most of my problems stemmed from slow DSL service from AT&T. I switched to cable and now the quality and reliability has improved tremendously. Netflix apparently did not put enough thought, or the right thought, into the process of raising prices. In the future, I am sure this will be a very good example of how not to do business. It is possible they are pricing themselves right out of business. I hope not, because I really enjoy Netflix and hate to see them falter. There are alternatives out there if you really want to hunt for them. The problem is they are not integrated with DVD players, TV boxes and such, etc. To Netflix I say, "Come to your senses people!!! You are killing a very good thing here. Have a little common sense and listen to what your customers are saying. They could become your ex-customers very quickly!!!"

[mcmidi]

I don't know where you live, but I get my Netflix Blu-ray DVD's overnight without fail, and have been a member for over 5 years. Their best value plan is for 3 discs at a time (around $23/month - forget actusl price) and I just copy them to my hard drive as images using Slysoft's AnyDVD HD until I'm ready to watch them. I average over 20 Blu-ray or SD DVD's per month with full Blu-ray Quality. I don't know why it takes you 2-3 days, most of the country can get theits overnight. Be honest, Dude if you're gonna post something as slandering as that about a company that offers a good product, good service at a great price. As far as any price increases, blame that on this country's refusal to do anything about it's addiction to fossil fuels and the epic destruvtive behaviour of past republican control of the economy, but that's a different topic. Just do your research before you blab irresponsably! I know I'd appreciate it.

[SheldonGlassp8el]

The streaming of the movie selection on Netflix is DREADFUL!

[plutoman67]

AlexHumva, on 30 August 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:

To the above; if your quality isn't good, your internet isn't good. If you have anything above three megabits though, you should be getting better quality; do you live in Canada? You have to manually select quality there now.

Me, with my netflix movies, I can get above two a week; send out movie on Monday, get new one on Wednesday, send out Thursday, receive new one on Saturday. Not all that hard, but I guess I'm just lucky, having faster mail service.

Seeing as there's no Redbox near by, and to drive to one would cost more in gas than to rent the movie, I don't see Netflix's DVD service going out the window quite yet. Besides, a six dollar increase, while it does equal to an extra seventy two dollars a year, is not going be THAT big of a deal.

I couldn't agree more!

[puterdood]

plutoman67, on 31 August 2011 - 12:30 PM, said:

AlexHumva, on 30 August 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:

To the above; if your quality isn't good, your internet isn't good. If you have anything above three megabits though, you should be getting better quality; do you live in Canada? You have to manually select quality there now.

Me, with my netflix movies, I can get above two a week; send out movie on Monday, get new one on Wednesday, send out Thursday, receive new one on Saturday. Not all that hard, but I guess I'm just lucky, having faster mail service.

Seeing as there's no Redbox near by, and to drive to one would cost more in gas than to rent the movie, I don't see Netflix's DVD service going out the window quite yet. Besides, a six dollar increase, while it does equal to an extra seventy two dollars a year, is not going be THAT big of a deal.

I couldn't agree more!

I would agree also. When I first signed up for Netflix, my DSL speed was 3mb. The quality was decent, nothing to complain about. Then AT&T, in their infinite stupidity, decide to lower it to 1.5mb. Netflix quality was very poor at that point, but it was not their fault. As soon as I could get rid of AT&T, I went to cable at 10mb (for a lower price at that). Now Netflix quality is super. I have not had any issues and have been very happy with the service overall.

[oldschoolh4ck3r]

If Netflix stops offering DVD rentals, they lose me as a customer. Their streaming selection isn't that great.

[Mattzy85]

Yep. We just left Netflix. Can't afford the higher prices on our limited budget.

[Mattzy85]

Yep. We just left Netflix. Can't afford the higher prices on our limited budget.

[Mattzy85]

I'm switching too!

[HolliSmith]

At first I cancelled my DVD service when I heard about this because I only got like 1 disk a month it wasn't worth the price hike. Then I got on demand and realized that half the stuff on there I couldn't watch because I was 1 or 2 seasons behind on the show. So I decided to cancel my cable all together and upgrade my DVDs service with netflix to 4 at a time. With 4 at a time and instant streaming I never run out of something to watch and I did the math it actually saves me $60 a month. But if you are addicted to your cable and watch more tv than I do (about 1-2 hours a day) it might not work for you. Plus I am not really into movies so red box is ok on occasion but it doesn't fulfill my TV show needs which i prefer to watch over movies. There is less of a short term time commitment with TV shows.

[BoHerrmannsen]

they lost me as they stopped accepting prepaid's

just for the fun of it... go here: http://netflixcommun...goodbye-netflix

just say short you are stopping.. could be fun to see how the "netflix lovers" would freak out :-D

EDIT: first choice for me is itunes... hulu next, but they are loaded with ad's even for those who pay

This post has been edited by BoHerrmannsen: 22 November 2011 - 01:41 PM