Netflix price changes

[keefy]

I did a seach but came up wth nothing.

Some are dissapointed in the price changes. read the comments.

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.

Why the changes?

Last November when we launched our $7.99 unlimited streaming plan, DVDs by mail was treated as a $2 add on to our unlimited streaming plan. At the time, we didn’t anticipate offering DVD only plans. Since then we have realized that there is still a very large continuing demand for DVDs both from our existing members as well as non-members. Given the long life we think DVDs by mail will have, treating DVDs as a $2 add on to our unlimited streaming plan neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs. Creating an unlimited DVDs by mail plan (no streaming) at our lowest price ever, $7.99, does make sense and will ensure a long life for our DVDs by mail offering. Reflecting our confidence that DVDs by mail is a long-term business for us, we are also establishing a separate and distinct management team solely focused on DVDs by mail, led by Andy Rendich, our Chief Service and Operations Officer and an 11 year veteran of Netflix.

Now we offer a choice: Unlimited Streaming for $7.99 a month, Unlimited DVDs for $7.99 a month, or both for $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). We think $7.99 is a terrific value for our unlimited streaming plan and $7.99 a terrific value for our unlimited DVD plan. We hope one, or both, of these plans makes sense for our members and their entertainment needs.

As always, our members can easily choose to change or cancel their unlimited streaming plan, unlimited DVD plan, or both by visiting Your Account.

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/07/netf...plans-and.html

[Completely Average]

I gave up on Netflix. Their streaming to PC support sucks. Poor selection and poor sound quality.

[F34R]

Wtf does this have to do with gaming?

Of course some are going to be upset, it's a price increase...

[.RAID3N.]

I'll stick with the streaming only that I have now. I'm pretty sure its $7.99 right now, so no price change for me.

[KyleH]

I find the recent Netflix price hike a little too much to bear. A few cents increase could have been tolerable for a while, but their price hike this time is a little too much for entertainment. I decided it's better to go for streaming alone, it works for me good enough at $7.99. Better if they improve their streaming library and service with all the additional revenue they're getting, but I'm not putting my hopes too high. I can't deny that they still have some value compared to other brands offering similar services but meh, I have a lot other options if I want some entertainment fix.

I came across some article discussing the best choice among the plans offered by Netflix by details, for those who wants to earn good value with their services it's a pretty good read: Surviving the Netflix price increase.

[seanners]

considering switching to hulu plus