I cancelled Netflix three weeks ago for the same reasons.
This past Saturday night, we had family over. We had a sudden urge to watch ‘The Blind Side’
Vudu had it for $2.99.
The lady of the house has her television and DVR, and I have my gaming PC. We didn’t think it was necessary to rent videos we’d probably never watch. Besides, Hollywood isn’t churning out anything worth my time anymore.
That’s another hard lesson for Netflix:
Having driven off a million customers, many are finding it easy and cost-efficient to get recent movies streaming for $2-5 a pop. Didn’t want to go that route prior, having dropped the flat-rate fee for Netflix disc rental, but for those of us who don’t watch much anyway, not a bad tradeoff to get _everything_ streaming via per-viewing rental.
OK, so Netflix figured out the mistake and is restoring/merging disc rentals again. What’s it gonna cost me now? why, being a once-a-week premium-movie viewer, would I switch back to waiting for a particular disc when I can stream whatever I want from iTunes right now at comparable bottom-line cost?