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In Reply to: RE: No comments on the Netflix price increase? nt posted by ksnyder3 on July 12, 2011 at 20:27:29
business model: an incredible and VAST collection of art films from every important country on earth. Comcast? Just the same-old, same-old that any company offers. Unfortunately, there is VERY little price difference between them all. You get these great deals during your first year and then, WHAMMO! The big thumb to your eye comes out.
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One of them is my gunsmith - he is so old-fashioned, he uses phone to communicate!You can't blame Comcast for giving the populous what it needs - mindless sport and dumb movies 24 hours a day. They would not make money off you and my gunsmith. I know of some people with very, very low income who pay well over $200 a month for their cable. Add to this the obligatory iPhone, etc and you are in the $300-400 a month territory, just for garbage.
My wife bitched and managed to get our Comcast bill down to $105... with very few channels.
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I have Comcast and agree it blows. I think I pay around $120 a month for internet and cable with about 50 channels, of which I probably watch 5 99% of the time. A couple of my Comcast-subscribing friends have had good luck calling the Co. periodically to take advantage of the "new subscribers" rates offered every now and then.
It's too bad Comcast doesn't offer a package which let's one get more movie channels. I'd gladly trade all channels that show sports and (primarily) reality tv for a couple decent film channels.
only the package which offers Turner Classic Movies. This is $7/mo on top of the bare bones cable + High Speed internet. I think 12MB/s and a heafty hunk of web storage. If I had a 46" plasma screen I;d pay for the streaming.. as it is I was taking 3 DVD's a month for whatever it was... I'll probably go back to a two at a time plan come the Fall.
Then I'd complain!
:)
Cable companies are "given" monopoly districts. At least someone could try to compete with Netfilx.
Fucking cable companies.
Lets face it, the objective is to kill the dvd. At this point,if they would have to stand on streaming alone they are toast. By killing the dvd they pressure the content providers to make up for the lost sales of the dvd.
For my family, the attraction of the dvd is newer movies. The attraction for us with streaming is series that we can't get on cable and filling time while waiting for the next dvd to arrive. Therefore, streaming doesn't have the value to us that it does to some (at this point). The content for streaming just isn't there.
Another threat to the model could be the content providers doing their own streaming. We already have Sony streaming and MGM on cable. The barrier to entry of the market might be lower without having to buy all those dvds,especially if you already own the content.
I think they pulled the trigger too soon with the separation of dvd and streaming. It just puts it on the table that it can be one or the other(for now). At this point, I'm still in the dvd camp. If I want to watch old crappy movies I can just stick with cable.
And by the way, my increase would be $5.29
Because Netflix alreay jacked their prices up, what, a year ago?
increase was November 2010, which was $2.12 and I went from 3 dvds to 2 to offset some of the increase. I'll probably drop to one this time or stay at 2 and drop streaming.
art/foreign/classic films, you won't find them streaming anytime soon.
I don't know what their plans for expanding the streaming base are, but hope they are moving aggressively.
improvement of HD? Blu is a BIG step beyond that.
Hey... 6 cylinders is a giant step forward! :)(Not to mention 8...)
Not to mention the supercharger.
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invest in a performance car. But, to live in an urban area and once in a blue moon get to blow it out? Crazy. It just makes you drive dangerously where you shouldn't, is my experience (10 years with an MR-2). I had the tickets and ridiculously expensive insurance to prove it, Vic. Prius, btw, has some "go." It isn't the slug you might think. I actually abuse it: it's a hatchback and when the back seats are folded down and a plastic mat installed, it mimics a pickup pretty well. I've been redoing a 1/2 to 2/3rds acre garden this year and it's hauled tons of stuff. It's a bullet-proof little machine.
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