netflix decides to hemmorage more members

[noiseredux]

I don't really know why everyone's flipping out. $16 a month doesn't sound like some painfully unreasonable deal to me.

well for some people it is. My wife and I have a cable bill, so the extra $10 for Netflix was already a flagged question-mark in our budget. So raising that $10 by 60% is kind of much for my sensibilities. We're gonna drop the discs, though and just go to streaming for $8.

[CRTGAMER]

Wear and Tear
I wonder if streaming is good for PCs and Consoles. I know hard drives have a reputable long service life, but the drive light is flickering thru out the movie. A lot more milage compared to watching short YouTube clips. My son signed up for the one month free trial. He put his laptop on its side to cut down the hard drive noise, the drive head kicks once in a while. I have a feeling his drive is on shaky grounds already, now compounded by the continual run with streaming.

Unnecessary milage on a locked download content console
Better to use a PC to preserve the console download purchased games, the restore support won't be there years from now as new consoles come out. I imagine the 360 and PS3 hard drives are also getting a workout thru the continual rewrites as a movie dumps. If not mistaken, the Wii does not have a hard drive, perhaps the flash memory is constantly being rewritten while the movie dumps segments thru streaming? Can't be good for the longevity of each system. I plan on keeping my consoles till I die, would like the consoles to last.

What about all the extra footage
As in games, I can see where streaming will kill the hard copy market due to convenience of a mouse click. A shame since only the movie gets streamed, no behind the scenes and extras. The movies that one can own and watch anytime without the leash of a website might be a thing of the past.

[swiftzx]

y'know I'm starting to notice a pattern here. If you recall I bought my PS3 the week before PSN went down in the whole big fiasco. Then I bought another PS3 last week and put my first one in the bedroom because my wife wanted it MOSTLY for streaming Netflix. Then this.

You got another ps3 mostly for Netflix?! Why not just use your Wii?

[AppleQueso]

Cable AND Netflix?

seems a little redundant to me.

I don't have either btw.

@CRTgamer: I'm pretty sure HDDs have little to nothing to do with streaming.

[noiseredux]

y'know I'm starting to notice a pattern here. If you recall I bought my PS3 the week before PSN went down in the whole big fiasco. Then I bought another PS3 last week and put my first one in the bedroom because my wife wanted it MOSTLY for streaming Netflix. Then this.

You got another ps3 mostly for Netflix?! Why not just use your Wii?

no I got another PS3 mostly for backwards compatability. I traded a box of stuff that was moving on my tradelist along with $90 for a 60GB PS3. Great deal really. And good timing. After I upgraded my VGA box to component, I found that my PS2 wasn't outputting a component signal that my monitor wanted to read. So for that deal it was ideal.

Instead of getting rid of my other PS3, I figured I'd keep it as a backup and put it in the bedroom for Netflix, BR or if my wife wants to play it.

[swiftzx]

y'know I'm starting to notice a pattern here. If you recall I bought my PS3 the week before PSN went down in the whole big fiasco. Then I bought another PS3 last week and put my first one in the bedroom because my wife wanted it MOSTLY for streaming Netflix. Then this.

You got another ps3 mostly for Netflix?! Why not just use your Wii?

no I got another PS3 mostly for backwards compatability. I traded a box of stuff that was moving on my tradelist along with $90 for a 60GB PS3. Great deal really. And good timing. After I upgraded my VGA box to component, I found that my PS2 wasn't outputting a component signal that my monitor wanted to read. So for that deal it was ideal.

Instead of getting rid of my other PS3, I figured I'd keep it as a backup and put it in the bedroom for Netflix, BR or if my wife wants to play it.

Ah, gotcha. Btw I sent you a friend request

[noiseredux]

Ah, gotcha. Btw I sent you a friend request

I'm pretty sure I accepted already.

[s1mplehumar]

Bummer! I'm still keeping both services. My wife really appreciates the offerings via streaming, and I'm more apt to utilize the DVD/Blu route. And I still refuse to pay for cable unless Comcast hooks me up with 210+ channels for $19.99 again for 2 years

Still, this is disappointing. I've been with Netflix since 1999

[DinnerX]

Unnecessary milage on a locked download content console
Better to use a PC to preserve the console download purchased games, the restore support won't be there years from now as new consoles come out. I imagine the 360 and PS3 hard drives are also getting a workout thru the continual rewrites as a movie dumps. If not mistaken, the Wii does not have a hard drive, perhaps the flash memory is constantly being rewritten while the movie dumps segments thru streaming? Can't be good for the longevity of each system. I plan on keeping my consoles till I die, would like the consoles to last.

Hard drives are pretty sturdy in my experience. I've got some that are over ten years old. Sometimes they do have a mechanical failure though. Flash memory is good for 100,000 rewrites or so. If there was much of a concern surely one of the companies would put out warnings, since they warn you about even the slightest hazard most of the time.

[CRTGAMER]

Unnecessary milage on a locked download content console

Better to use a PC to preserve the console download purchased games, the restore support won't be there years from now as new consoles come out. I imagine the 360 and PS3 hard drives are also getting a workout thru the continual rewrites as a movie dumps. If not mistaken, the Wii does not have a hard drive, perhaps the flash memory is constantly being rewritten while the movie dumps segments thru streaming? Can't be good for the longevity of each system. I plan on keeping my consoles till I die, would like the consoles to last.

Hard drives are pretty sturdy in my experience. I've got some that are over ten years old. Sometimes they do have a mechanical failure though. Flash memory is good for 100,000 rewrites or so. If there was much of a concern surely one of the companies would put out warnings, since they warn you about even the slightest hazard most of the time.

Agree, memory and hard drives last for a long time. Just something to consider for limited online support of a purchased download game. The console will eventually wear out.

Look at the size of the Wii internal memory, even with an SD Card the movies go thru the internal memory. Now take into account the size of one movie stream. A lot of rewrites just for the one movie. Now multiply the milage how many movies over a years worth of streaming.