Netflix has announced that they will be raising subscriber rates for consumers who want to receive Blu-ray discs by $1 USD beginning next month.
Netflix has been testing such a price increase on certain markets since August but the hike will go official to all Netflix consumers who want Blu-ray on November 5th.
Netflix currently has 800 Blu-ray titles available but says that less than ... [ read the full article ]
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Even if they raised it by $3 or $4 a month, I'd be happy. Blu-rays do cost more to make [for now any way], and it beats the heck out of paying $25-$40 a disc at retail. Netflix's price value has yet to be beat.
1$ is way 2 cheep and very generous. That can't last to long cause they could go as high as 5$ and they still wouldn't lose that many customers over blue ray rentals.
Same here, fair raise, but still, my BD queue is not moving fast enough, i have to feed the queue with DVDs. I'm gonna give it few months with the new raise, just to check the $1 is doing anything positive. If not, well, time to cancel, because NFX just stole few bucks from me for doing nothing.
