Less than a month ago, Netflix
announced it was splitting its DVD/Blu-ray mailing and streaming video
services into two separate Web sites, each subscription requiring its
own account, Netflix remaining for streaming video, with the new
Qwikster site for mailing DVDs and Blu-rays.
A hue and cry rose up – including in this space ("Netflix + Qwikster = DUMB") from customers who, like me, use Netflix for both streaming video and for getting physical discs in the mail in the now-familiar red envelopes.
While not exactly the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street, we have peaceful reversed this ridiculous corporate division.
Netflix will remain as it is; as Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings says In This Blog, "This means no change: one website, one account, one password…in other words, no Qwikster."
Qwikster, we hardly knew you – thank goodness. Anyone wanna buy a slightly used URL?
Same service, same price
Netflix's price increases, announced last July, also elicited a hue and cry, but are, IMHO, not anything to complain about.
As Hastings hastily explained, studios have increased their fees to Netflix, and the company had no choice but to pass these higher costs on to us.
To review, Netflix has three pricing options:
Plus, Netflix continues to add streaming content. Hastings has noted the company has recently added 3,500 TV episodes and hundreds of flix to its net from Paramount, Sony, Universal, Fox, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, USA, E!, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Discovery Channel, TLC, SyFy, A&E, History, and PBS.
Add in Hulu+ ($7.99/month) to get current programming, attach an HDTV antenna to watch local content, and you can come close to cutting that expensive cable cord. Almost all the HDTV you can watch (albeit not always on the day it is broadcast, and minus pay cable sports, damn it) for $24 a month? That's one way to beat today's economic woes.
And with Netflix no longer splitting itself in half, getting to that content will remain pretty easy.
Source: Life Goes Strong
A hue and cry rose up – including in this space ("Netflix + Qwikster = DUMB") from customers who, like me, use Netflix for both streaming video and for getting physical discs in the mail in the now-familiar red envelopes.
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While not exactly the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street, we have peaceful reversed this ridiculous corporate division.
Netflix will remain as it is; as Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings says In This Blog, "This means no change: one website, one account, one password…in other words, no Qwikster."
Qwikster, we hardly knew you – thank goodness. Anyone wanna buy a slightly used URL?
Same service, same price
Netflix's price increases, announced last July, also elicited a hue and cry, but are, IMHO, not anything to complain about.
As Hastings hastily explained, studios have increased their fees to Netflix, and the company had no choice but to pass these higher costs on to us.
To review, Netflix has three pricing options:
- Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs/Blu-rays): $7.99/month
- Unlimited DVDs/Blu-rays (no streaming): $7.99/month.
- Unlimited DVDs/Blu-rays & unlimited streaming: $15.98/month ($7.99 + $7.99)
Plus, Netflix continues to add streaming content. Hastings has noted the company has recently added 3,500 TV episodes and hundreds of flix to its net from Paramount, Sony, Universal, Fox, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, USA, E!, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Discovery Channel, TLC, SyFy, A&E, History, and PBS.
Add in Hulu+ ($7.99/month) to get current programming, attach an HDTV antenna to watch local content, and you can come close to cutting that expensive cable cord. Almost all the HDTV you can watch (albeit not always on the day it is broadcast, and minus pay cable sports, damn it) for $24 a month? That's one way to beat today's economic woes.
And with Netflix no longer splitting itself in half, getting to that content will remain pretty easy.
Source: Life Goes Strong