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I can understand that maybe their agreements w/ Sony etc... might prohibit a true "all you can eat" setup, when it comes to new releases... BUT AT LEAST set it up so that I'm entitled to 10, 20, 30 new releases per month. Don't JUST release B movies, documentaries, indy films, and Family Ties, Season One. That's fucking bullshit. Seriously.

Also... NXE shoudl add hulu, and boxee.

Maybe tha'ts just me dreaming, idk.]]>Feb 1st 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
I'm skeptical that my cable company is clamping my stream to netflix because when netflix tries to reduce quality all the time I will do a speed test and I'm getting fast speeds (3 to 4 mps)... Conspiricy?]]>Feb 2nd 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
I'm sure Netflix would love to have streaming for every title in their catalog, but the studios won't allow it. I'd pay $10-$15 a month, just for unlimited streaming if they had every title available, without any physical media.]]>Feb 2nd 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
Besides, after the fee for "premium" BluRay service, I'm disinclined to give them any more money for "premium" services.

Only one of my top 10 BluRays in my queue is available with less than a "long wait", despite over half of them having been in there 3 months or more.]]>Feb 1st 2009 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
And that's the market that Netflix is exploring. There are quite a lot of people who don't have cable, don't have satellite, don't even have broadcast television. These people currently spend $0 per month. Like you, these people cannot get HBO for $10 per month. If, however, they already have Netflix, they - like you - can spend an extra $10 per month for additional programming.

All that being said, $10/month is too much.

And, as Steve likes to say, "one more thing": The restriction on what Netflix offers via streaming has nothing to do with Netflix. They offer what the studios allow them to offer and nothing more. The studios are still stuck in the past and, even though we're in a tough economy, likely won't lose their grip on their past behavior until they file for bankruptcy. ]]>Feb 2nd 2009 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
I can get more channels of HBO in better quality HD with 5.1 surround from my cable provider for the equivalent or less money.]]>Feb 1st 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
Bottom line is Netflix will be completely digital downloads one day. The question is whether they will continue to offer up good service at a good price, or will they get greedy?

On the other hand, I'm paying less now than I did when I began as a NF customer. I could see the rates go up a bit for more service, but $10 seems steep. ]]>Feb 2nd 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
It doesn't suck now and I'm not currently paying $10 extra for HBO content, so I fail to see how it will suddenly suck if you decide to not pay the extra $10 if additional service becomes and retain the same service I currently have.]]>Feb 2nd 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
While some of you may hate the idea or think its too much, I personally like the idea of it. Yeah cheaper would be better but $10 is sure far better then what I would be paying the cable company.]]>Feb 1st 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
According to the Engadget post, you would be getting both HBO TV shows and MOVIES, so it sounds like it would be just like the Starz Deal where you would also have access to any movies HBO has the licenses for.]]>Feb 1st 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
By HBO shows and movies, they mean HBO shows and HBO-made/distributed movies, like Hacking Democracy for example.]]>Feb 1st 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 2nd 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/]]>Feb 2nd 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
Bret: [while being mugged] But Jemaine loves that camera-phone.
Jemaine: You can keep it.
Jemaine: I think you might have ruined my phone when you made me that camera-phone... and my camera.
[hands over old instamatic camera super glued to the back of a cellphone]]]>Feb 2nd 2009 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
Oh, and I'm certainly not paying $10/mo for HBO alone... unless we get access to every movie ever shown on HBO.]]>Feb 1st 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
If you're wanting to watch a HD movie you're looking at around 1.5-2GB per movie being streamed.

]]>Feb 1st 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
Maybe if the movie is only 80 minutes, 720p and still overcompressed.

I know H.264 is a good encoder, but you're going to lose a lot of quality compressing a normal movie into 2GB of data. It's still not great at 4GB!

To me, one of the big impediments to HD adoption is people are seeing poor quality sources and (rightfully) saying "what's the big deal"?

Do yourself a favor, watch a BluRay (or HD-DVD if you want, they look the same) or two. Let's get REAL HD started off on the right foot.]]>Feb 1st 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
On a related topic, I'd rather see Roku bringing Hulu with ads than Netflix having HBO for a fee.

At the top of my wish list for Netflix:
1. closed captions,
2. more recent releases,
3. more content (the entire PBS catalog for instance.)]]>Feb 1st 2009 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
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But even if we play devils advocate here and yeah they offered all the movies on HBO as well and then started only putting the "good" movies in that price tier, if you don't like it, you walk away from it.

Enough people do that and Netflix would get the idea but you don't take a stand against an optional service from a company thats goal is to make money all because your afraid of what they MIGHT do in the future.]]>Feb 1st 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 2nd 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
We figure this is a better plan than using our Blockbuster online subscription; this way at least we know we'll get them in order.

If Netflix would stream HBO content for $10 extra a month I'd order the Roku box tonight.]]>Feb 1st 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
Now personally, for me, this isn't that intriguing, as I DON'T subscribe to HBO. I subscribe to Showtime. If this was Showtime, and if everything they aired was available on-demand, immediately, I'd switch without blinking. I assume if I valued HBO the same way, I would do the same.]]>Feb 1st 2009 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/
It would open the doors for more selective content tiers- the best thing about the netflix streaming service is the depth of their catalogue. If they begin fracturing who can see what, I'll be pretty disappointed.]]>Feb 1st 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 1st 2009 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 2nd 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/

I just hope they keep the rates low and don't get too greedy.]]>Feb 2nd 2009 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/01/netflix-considering-premium-price-tiers-for-additional-streaming/Feb 2nd 2009 12:24AM