Already canceled my account with them.
The BluRay discs we were renting sat for weeks not being watched while we kept up with our favorite shows on the DVR.
The instant queue/streaming movies were all oldies or indies. Any of the movies we really wanted to see were DVD/BR only, which was enough to convince the lady of the house to drop it altogether.
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.
**Already canceled my account with them.**
Same here. Now if they revoked their price hike, I *might* consider going back. I found that I didn’t use it neatly as much as I thought I would.
Yeah, losing a million customers in a matter of weeks does kind of get a company’s attention.
I had the same issue: would sit on discs for weeks, as streaming provided 90% of what we wanted on a whim, while discs require “ok, I’m ready to watch THAT now”. Had long debated cancelling the discs, but frankly the one thing that kept me signed up for 2-discs-a-month was having two queues totaling some 300 titles - too much effort went into making those lists only to abandon them over a couple bucks a month. When that “couple bucks a month” became much more, saying “enough” was easy.
Now an obnoxious question: if customers who cancelled disc service come back, will their disc queues be restored?
We went from 3 movies at a time (which we are horrible at finding time to watch) to one at a time.
We do a lot of streaming. But we have a big home theater. when it is time to pop popcorn and sit back to watch a big action movie on blue ray, the discs are still the way to go. (for a little while longer at least).
The streaming is a little like the on demand movies on cable, the greatest collection of mediocre movies ever assembled.
Yep - when the local rental places went out of business, we stopped renting - period. Paying for a premium TV service with HBO as the one "luxury" keeps us plenty busy as far as choices go. If a "must see" movie hits the theaters, we go (sneak our own drinks and candy in). The rest will eventually hit the TV somewhere down the road - once you get out of the "gotta see it now" mode, you don't really miss anything, you just delay the "pleasure" which is the most cost-effective way to go. I haven't even felt the need to use my subscriber service to pay for the "privilege" of viewing something a bit sooner.