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solum: Re: The more I dig the more things I find to watch. I think their system is horribly set up where it's really difficult to see what they have to offer. It's something they should really address. But there's no question half of their content must be "B" rated movies.
I totally agree. When I bought my most recent universal Blu-ray player and accessed Netflix, it seemed like it had become even harder to find a good movie to stream, which was probably one of the reasons I chose last week to drop that aspect of my Netflix service. But I've kept the mail part -- I'm quite obsessive about buying both DVDs and Blu-rays (owning over 4,000 DVDs alone), and Netflix has singlehandedly saved me thousands of dollars on movies I would without any doubt have bought had I not seen them first through them. And because of that, I don't grumble when they raise their rates. But streaming, for someone like me with ALL the premium movie channels, just wasn't worth it.
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solum: Re: The more I dig the more things I find to watch. I think their system is horribly set up where it's really difficult to see what they have to offer. It's something they should really address. But there's no question half of their content must be "B" rated movies.
I totally agree. When I bought my most recent universal Blu-ray player and accessed Netflix, it seemed like it had become even harder to find a good movie to stream, which was probably one of the reasons I chose last week to drop that aspect of my Netflix service. But I've kept the mail part -- I'm quite obsessive about buying both DVDs and Blu-rays (owning over 4,000 DVDs alone), and Netflix has singlehandedly saved me thousands of dollars on movies I would without any doubt have bought had I not seen them first through them. And because of that, I don't grumble when they raise their rates. But streaming, for someone like me with ALL the premium movie channels, just wasn't worth it.
That is one of the reasons I do enjoy Netflix. There are various BBC programs I am interested in but the cost of the BluRays are ridiculous in the States. So I don't want to waste my money if it ends up I don't like the series. If I like the programs after watching them on Netflix, (which is very affordable), then I'll buy it on DVD or BluRay. I would never go all streaming for things that I like. I want to "own" the media and know I can play them any time I want.
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Agree with both above. First, I can't justify the added expense of Blu-ray because so many of the movies I rent from Netflix aren't available in that format - so why bother? And it's like pulling teeth to get a complete listing of new releases -- but I can see why they make it so hard. If they had a proper listing of what has been released most recently, millions of subscribers would probably put them at the top of their queue, so they would have to buy far more copies of the same films as soon as they are released. I still keep the service because it has stopped me from buying tons of movies I would have regretted as soon as I watched them, so, for me, as imperfect as they may be, they've saved me more money than I've spent, even during the many years I had both mail and stream.
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Sounds like that between your internet speed and shifty billing policies you have a shitty cable company. There's probably no perfect company to be with, and I'm sure that if the Time Warner/Comcast merger somehow goes through we're all in deep sludge.
We're on Time Warner with internet coming through Earthlink and have had relatively few problems as to image quality and streaming speeds. We have had a few occasions when it froze but going back to the "play" page and starting from there usually cleared up the problem.
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). I'm going to be spending a lot more time on the couch in the near future, I think... 
