I am of like mind...and very much for the same reasons. I'm at $8 per month now, and would gladly accept a price increase to $12/month. I wonder tho at where my "tipping" point would be with Netflix?? $15/mo? $20/mo? $39.95/mo. When would the cost be "too much to pay"?
At any rate, I will not let my Netflix go until such time as I can obtain cable/satellite service "al a carte". In the meantime, I have my digital "rabbit ears", my 44" HDTV, six free TV channels (for news and such), and Netflix for whatever movies I want to watch.
OK...on occasion I hook up to Hulu for something, but that's pretty rare.
Fie on T/W and their ilk!
I signed up for Netflix and got the Roku box for streaming in the spring. It is great. I watch it 2-to-1 over cable TV.
And the streams/DVDs — NO COMMERCIALS.
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Major networks are now trying to get into the streaming. They think they can make $$$. They will, in all probability, eventually drop that, as they will try to go proprietary viewers [meaning download a special program just to watch].
Some networks are already trying to pull back from the streaming services, including Hulu, which, ironically, is owned by a couple of major networks who are stiffling it out of existence.
In the meantime, I have my digital “rabbit ears”, my 44” HDTV, six free TV channels (for news and such), and Netflix for whatever movies I want to watch.
OK...on occasion I hook up to Hulu for something, but that’s pretty rare.
I have a similar setup, and this is why the cable compaines hate streaming over the internet. It has caused people to drop their cable enterly (the cash cow for cable companies). The term is “chord cutters”, and it is a big problem for cable compaines.
When we turned in our cable box recently, there were two people there getting new boxes, and eight people turning in their box. A business can’t survive where you are losing 8 customers for every 2 new customers.
BTW, we use Hulu a lot. Subscribed to Hulu plus (which just went down in price again).
Price wise, I think Netflix could increase their $9 a month fee without much of a hit. When you compare it to the cost of cable TV per month, it is still a great deal.