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I, like many other people, got the Netflix apology in my email this morning. I was underwhelmed.
The idea of splitting the service into a streaming service and a re-named DVD-by-mail service didn't make me happy either. For one thing, it looks suspiciously like they're planning on dumping the DVD service sometime in the future, at least to me. Given that what I want to watch is by a wide majority is only available as DVD -- documentaries, foreign movies and tv, and weird indie things -- this is the reason I dropped the streaming service two months ago when they tried to jack the prices up outrageously.
At the moment, I'm probably going to drop my subscription by one disk anyway -- I'm just not watching media like I used to -- Netflix/Qwikster might lose me as a customer entirely if I find an option that is better for me. I hear Blockbuster and Amazon Prime are worth investigating...
The idea of splitting the service into a streaming service and a re-named DVD-by-mail service didn't make me happy either. For one thing, it looks suspiciously like they're planning on dumping the DVD service sometime in the future, at least to me. Given that what I want to watch is by a wide majority is only available as DVD -- documentaries, foreign movies and tv, and weird indie things -- this is the reason I dropped the streaming service two months ago when they tried to jack the prices up outrageously.
At the moment, I'm probably going to drop my subscription by one disk anyway -- I'm just not watching media like I used to -- Netflix/Qwikster might lose me as a customer entirely if I find an option that is better for me. I hear Blockbuster and Amazon Prime are worth investigating...
