I’m thinking of changing my Netflix subscription to streaming only. I’m paying 18.57 right now for 3 DVDs at a time. I opted out of blu ray a few months ago since every blu ray was on long wait. There are some things that aren’t available on streaming such as a lot of the music/opera and sports DVDs. But, I figure I can always find something I like on streaming and there are plenty of redbox machines around if I want something current.
I share a Netflix account with my roommate and we are most definitely going to switch to the streaming only subscription. In the past month we’ve had 2 dvds, both of which have sat around for over a week before being watched. Netflix instant is just great.
Right now I basically have Streaming only. I got the one DVD at a time plan. My parents get the DVD, I use the streaming, and we split the payment.
It should be offered for way less money since they have virtually no overhead to provide the movie. It’s only $1.00 a month less than the “streaming + DVD” option that we currently have. That’s going up to $9.99 a month but I can’t see going to streaming only.
I don’t think so. Many new shows and movies are not available on streaming.
No, I’m not going to streaming only, but my current three-at-a-time plan including Blu-Ray discs is going from $19.99 per month to $23.99 per month. That’s a substantial hike, for no good reason that I can see.
Could be worse. You could have been paying 20.99 a month for the same plan all this time like I have. 
I am downgrading from 3 disc plus streaming to streaming and 1 disc, just in case there is something I absolutely need to see that is disc only.
I just love streaming, I really think that it is the future of entertainment. I just wish that I could have some sort of cable tv option where I can just subscribe to the specific cable channels I like and stream them instead of paying a flat fee for 300 channels of garbage to get the 20 or so channels I actually watch. I am happy that I can get some of my first run tv series online.
[I would love it if the cable channels in my On Demand would actually stream all their selections for the month instead of only about half of them. I was under the impression that the cable channels were going to stream their entire monthly selection when they first announced On Demand.]
I’m at the 2 disc + streaming, and I might go to steaming only, or maybe just 1 disc. I have had the two DVDs I got from them sitting on my shelf for a long time, unwatched…I figure the few DVDs I’d rent from Redbox would be covered in the savings.
We are. We’re buying the box for our Christmas present to ourselves. It’ll be a fun step up from where we are now; if we find that too much new stuff isn’t available I’m sure we’ll pony up the extra dollar or two to have real DVDs also.
Netflix streaming is the coolest thing since sliced bread. My entire family absolutely loves it. Now if I could just get around to watching the 500 or so selections I have lined up in my queue…
Personally, I find the streaming to be too full of chaff to be worth an independent subscription and am annoyed that they’re using it as a justification to raise my rates. For every decent movie made in the last 2-5 years, there’s seemingly 10,000 old TV episodes I’m not interested in, terrible low-budget sex-coms from the 80’s & 90’s and sequels, sequels, sequels. It seems like half the movies end with “II” or “III” but the popular original is rarely available via stream.
I’ll wind up coughing up the dollar just because I do use the streaming for something to watch at 1am when I’m up with the baby and a couple movie rentals from the local store will run me as much as my monthly subscription (without the streaming option) but I’ll think about cutting back my subscription size and canceling the Blu-Ray option.
We’re considering it. Since the streaming movie selection got better and we got a Tivo that handles it, we’ve been doing almost pure streaming. I have 3 discs sitting here that I’ve had for 2 months and we never get around to watching.
That said, there’s still times that I want to watch something that’s not either available via streaming or Amazon Video-on-demand. In that case, I want to be able to rent a DVD, and I’m not sure what I’d do if I didn’t get it from Netflix.
I notice that those RedBox and Blockbuster vending machines are popping up around town. How are those? Do they generally have all the latest & greatest movies (since those are the ones that I typically can’t get from streaming/Amazon)?
Redbox (and I assume the BB version) pretty much specialize in the “latest and greatest” movies. If you want something older or less popular (and unavailable on streaming), you’d have to find a physical video store or else go back to Netflix via mail.
I’m tempted by streaming only. I’ve had the same Netflix DVD sitting on my shelf for about six months, while I’ve watched dozens of streaming movies/shows during that time.
We’re seriously considering it. We like the idea of disks, but then realized that the one we have now, we’ve had since March. However, we watch something on instant about 2-3 times per week.
… I should really get around to watching that disk, though.
No chance in hell. I’m on the 2 DVDs at a time plan, which I guess offers free streaming but I’ve never used it. I just checked my queue, and of the 100 items, only 22 are even offered as streaming. And the previous 100 were even more geared toward the old, foreign, and esoteric, and I only recall maybe 3 being offered as streaming.
Plus, there may be a way for me to watch streaming on my TV, but I haven’t looked into it. I’m certainly not going to watch a movie on a computer. (That’s why I spent the $$ for a decent TV and home theater surround system)
I’m thinking about it. Like others have posted, I have a disk sitting on my coffee table for over a month. There’s a Redbox machine a mile away and Vudu is coming to the PS3 today (I think). However, I’m finding that some older, disc only movies aren’t available on Vudu and I’m sure won’t be at Redbox.
Speaking of Vudu - anyone use it? Whatcha think?
Yes! I’ve been waiting for this since I signed up for Netflix. I’ve not ordered a single DVD from them, having gotten Netflix just to stream movies on my Xbox 360.
Well I’m glad to hear that my procrastination with my DVD returns to Netflix is nowhere nearly as bad as what I’ve read here. We usually take a week or two with ours unless we actually sit down and burn through the movie/show to get it back.
I really dig the streaming as well because I can just sit down at my computer and watch an episode of something if I have 20 minutes to spare – something that doesn’t seem as involved as if I went into my bedroom to watch something on DVD. And yes, I know my laptop has a DVD player.
In addition, I have an older laptop that’s plugged into our TV in our TV room in the basement so we can watch a movie or I can just throw the kids down there to watch something. Yes, I am that good of a parent.
We’re going to keep the 1 DVD at a time option. There is stuff out there that isn’t streaming or whatever.