I've had it a couple of months and I have watched pretty much what I wanted to watch. I'm sure there are some more documentaries or old movies I could watch. I am thinking I should cancel and get it again when Orange is the New Black is on. Thoughts?
Do you guys think I should cancel Netflix?
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Why are you asking us? Is deciding to keep or cancel an $8 a month service that difficult of a decision?
Kaido
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Seriously. I have friends with satellite & sports packages who pay more than my car payment on it every month :biggrin:
Maximilian
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Average netflix customer, you need to tell them what to do.
No OP don't cancel it! I have several good reasons why. Also buy an iPad. :thumbsup:
That sums up why Netflix has all these millions of subscribers. It is 8 bucks and there is "something" to watch, even if that something is nothing worth while
OILFIELDTRASH
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I go back and forth on it. I've cancelled a couple times in the past. Sure $8 is nothing but if you're not watching it then cancel it. Its not like you can't renew it in 5 minutes when you get the itch again.
phucheneh
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Netflix + Hulu = less than twenty bucks for more 'something' than $100 worth of cable gets you.
I've had it for a few years now. It's a steal in terms of entertainment value. I pretty much always find something I want to watch.
I generally always find something worthwhile, or at least every bit as much as when I had cable or any other service offers.
They do have lulls where it's like you've seen most of what they currently have that you'd want to watch, but that generally doesn't last too long. Plus that happens pretty much everywhere else (including on TV and stuff since they cycle through a lot of the same content).
I feel the same way. No it's not the most up to date, but they have a pretty good variety, enough that I can't seem to keep a queue below 20 for any reasonable amount of time (and often it balloons up much more than that, which granted some stuff I've had in there for a long time as I'm not always in the mood for it).
Yes there's a lot of really bad stuff on there that I wonder how much Netflix paid (some stuff I'm more hoping they paid Netflix just so they could get some people to watch it) for, but there's a glut of content that I can always find something.
Personally it seems to me the people complaining about Netflix having so little content really need to branch out and watch stuff they normally wouldn't. Give random ones a try, if it's not good then try something else. There's tons of stuff I've watched on there that I didn't know existed, likely wouldn't have given it a try if it wasn't dirt cheap to watch, and then found out that I actually really enjoyed it. Watch old movies, watch different genres, shows you might not normally. If you're the type that just wants to watch movies and TV shows from the past couple of years then yeah Netflix isn't spectacular (although not bad really on TV shows, but you'll be 6 months to a year behind, but eh who cares), but why would you want to limit yourself so much?
Still blows my mind how much bitching went on about that. I could understand the complaints over splitting the disc and streaming and the rebranding stupidity they pulled, but the price went up a tiny bit and fact is content costs were going up (a lot of content companies started trying to stick it to Netflix by jacking up prices, much like how you've seen with the public fights between Dish, DirectTV, cable with certain content companies). It's the same reason why the big ISPs pulled the shit they did. They knew Netflix had made such an efficient setup that it cost them very little, and they knew how little Netflix cost made them popular which then cost them cable/TV subscribers, so they tried to throw a big wrench into it. So again, Netflix will have to pass on some limited increases (the recent one where current subscribers get to stay at $8 for a while).
I remember people going apeshit over the Netflix price change, who were paying $150 a month for digital cable (that was increasing more than Netflix at a more frequent rate too), and spent more time watching Netflix. It was a major WTF for me.
Oh and now you can share a single account for streaming (at the same time, I believe it's 2 concurrent at the standard plan), so it's actually less expensive for a lot of people (unless Netflix didn't used to limit it at all and several were sharing, but I don't think they used to let more than one stream from an account at the same time like they do now).
Oh, not saying you're wrong as hey if you don't miss it at all then it isn't worth it to ya, but I am curious, what content are you viewing and how are you getting it? Do you just watch new stuff, and so have TV or maybe Hulu, and go to the movies? Not watch much in general so even when cheap you weren't really getting your money's worth?
I cut the cable 3 years ago, so Netflix is worth it to me just to watch last year's shows, along with movies I didn't care enough about to rent the disc.
And I do find nice surprises I'd never have seen without it, like the two Detective Dee movies, Iron Sky, Upside Down, or most recently the voice actor documentary I Know That Voice.
But how the puffin would I know whether you'd get any value out of keeping it, OP? I'm not your movie-taste stalker
And I do find nice surprises I'd never have seen without it, like the two Detective Dee movies, Iron Sky, Upside Down, or most recently the voice actor documentary I Know That Voice.
But how the puffin would I know whether you'd get any value out of keeping it, OP? I'm not your movie-taste stalker
Almost clicked that one last night. Sounds interesting. I ended up watching "A Year in Burgundy" instead, which turned out to be pretty great. Recommended if you've ever had any interest in ancient winemaking traditions.
poofyhairguy
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If you cancel you lose the grandfathered 8 bucks and it'll be 10 if you re-subscribe in the future.
I spend more at lunch and only get about 20-30 minutes of entertainment. Netflix is a steal for entertainment value imo.
So I tried to watch Netflix after a long time the other night. Had seen the first episode of Luther a long time ago. Started watching the second one. Couldn't stand all the "thrill" music, the forced attempts at dramatizations and so on. Quickly turned it off.
Having recently watched such a quality show as The Wire, this is what happens when you try to watch the run of the mill stuff. Not that I was ever into the standard fare in the first place. Never watched TV shows actually.
Having recently watched such a quality show as The Wire, this is what happens when you try to watch the run of the mill stuff. Not that I was ever into the standard fare in the first place. Never watched TV shows actually.
I keep it for the archived TV shows. I'm still in the process of watching these:
The League
The Office
How I Met Your Mother
Breaking Bad
Arrested Development
The League
The Office
How I Met Your Mother
Breaking Bad
Arrested Development
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