At about $18 a month, it’s surely a big savings over cable TV, not to mention the freedom to choose content explicitly.  Or maybe the increases were a way to cut back on disk mailing except for a subset of customers. 
Netflix is a lot cheaper than other vendors too e.g. Blockbuster.
Face it - it’s much cheaper than smoking and it won’t stain your teeth.

This should be worth a hefty bonus for the CEO. I’m sure it’s in his contract.

@Robespierre

I concur. I have always used the library and its extensive resources wherever I
have lived—from small town to big city. Public libraries are just about the last
bastion of democracy.

@ MeHere

I saw Eyes on the Prize years ago on PBS—a couple of times, at least, but
thanks for the reminder; it’s time for the grandkids to see it. I get a lot of
foreign films from Netflix, and many of them are streaming, but they are short
on a lot of the BBC stuff (not their fault—difficult negotiations involved they
say).

I will end up re-subscribing, but wanted to protest what I still see as an
excessive price increase. I don’t turn the CD’s around fast enough to justify it
on a fixed income, but I do have to praise their customer service. You get a live
and knowledgable person in Portland, Oregon who listens and helps in a timely
manner.

If the prices are too much at Netflix people should have the common sense to support their local PUBLIC LIBRARY. California, despite all its faults, has an excellent system with all the latest DVD releases available FOR FREE. And not just popular movies, they have all the best rare documentaries, TV programs, independent films etc.

Obviously, different people expect different things from Netflix.  My interest is
in international film, including work done in the US and other English-speaking
countries -from classic to modern in various genres, feature and documentary,
and some TV work.  I love film as an artistic medium so most Hollywood and TV
production is not on my rental list. Netflix is the only source that I know of
which can provide what I like. They don’t have everything ever made (some
things are not on DVD) but their collection is vast and they keep adding new
titles.

I’ve been very pleased with their service for years. At the moment, I only have
the one-at-a-time subscription (no streaming) and this has just gone down in
price.  Not everything that they have on DVD is also available on streaming. I’m
looking forward to increasing to two-at-a-time or adding streaming in the
near future.

If you’re interested in political/social issues and you haven’t seen the superb
documentary called “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Year 1954-1965,”
Netflix has it in 3 discs. I recently got it from Netflix.

“Greed often backfires.”????? Maybe in the movies!

While I knew an increase was coming, I thought it was excessive and cancelled. I
will look elsewhere or just…READ MORE BOOKS.

@ Patrick

Most of the PPL I know open their browser with minimum of 50 news websites world wide and up to about 500.
Firefox with addons: adblockplus, betterprivacy, cookie blocker, downloadhelper, noscript, flagfox, remove it permanently, session manager, tor network or some vpn for privacy

Netflix is bullshit ... for those who are newbies to net.
If you savvy ALL info is Free .. ALL of It! .. it is the premise Internet is built on.

I have never tried netflix, by the way some of the other posters here recommend it I think I will try it.

I often watch Link TV and Thom Hartmann, Al Jazeera is an eye opener as compared to anything the MSM has to offer.

I am a Netflix fan, and I am now paying less per month than I was due to Netflix’s separation of streaming and mailed DVDs. I never used the streaming function, so now I don’t have to pay for it. When and if I do use it, I will reduce my number of DVDs out at one time and not pay more.

Is this another case of people not paying attention to the details of Netflix’s alterations and just cancelling their subscriptions in a huff? Like all the petulant Obama supporters who voted Republican last year?

By the way, Netflix is the only place I know to rent superb documentaries ranging from the film about Cynthia McKinney to Sir, No, Sir (with a ton of extras that wouldn’t be available in a theatre).

And Lawful sharing of files between individuals went up by about 5 million in the same time ... hmmm.

There are more and more PPL getting together and buying direct fiber then ever before ... Outside of business jurisdiction and under Common Law.
Get the hint?

The Soldier Who Killed Herself After Refusing to Take Part in Torture

antiwar dot com

It’s just business, no need to get excited. In fact it could be great business if they can raise their rates 60% and lose only 4% of their customers.. Planners may even believe the customers who leave will be the ones that were spending the least.

NetFlix isn’t a right or a basic service. Let them charge whatever the heck they want. If it doesn’t work out, so what. My thought is they know very well what they are doing.

Want to get uppity about the price-gouging and poor-quality of a product? Pick one we rely on.. the water that comes out of the tap! For starters..

Adios!

Same reason why the traditional rental stores either collapsed (Hollywood Video) or are having serious problems (Blockbuster Video). Ticket prices at the local theater are also going up and up, of course they don’t get into too much trouble because the population marches in like idiot sheep to pay for junk food like “Transformers.”

Greed often backfires.