It was inevitable. I received the following email today from Amazon informing me that the price of their Amazon Primewill go up from $79 to $99 per year. Dear Russell Turley, We are writing to provide you advance notice that the price of your Prime membership will be increasing. The annual rate will be $99...
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Netflix Without Starz
Just about the same. Not a big deal. Before (2/29/12): After (3/2/12):
Netflix Loses Almost 1,000 Movies at the End of the Month
Most of them you probably won’t miss, but it’s worth taking a look anyway before they’re gone. » 981 Starz Movies That Netflix Lost Stuff I Google.
Netflix says “One Stream for You!”
Today I was greeted with a new message on my Roku box. While trying to watch an episode of Caprica this morning I was told by said Roku that I was trying to watch Netflix on too many devices. A quick trip into the family room revealed that the children were watching Kick Buttowski via...
Netflix: It’s an Error
Yesterday I posted about Netflix limiting it’s streaming customers to one streaming show at a time. Apparently though, it was an error rather than a crackdown as previously thought. While I had suspicions that this was some mix up (I hadn’t had the problem at my home) the fact remains that it didn’t surprise me....
Backing the Wrong Horse
If you’ve been a backer of Netflix, you’ve probably backed the wrong horse. One year ago they looked invincible. I was happily getting one DVD at a time, streaming on my two Roku units and loving life. Flash forward to today and I’ve cancelled the DVD service because of the price hike and now I...
VUDU: The Other Streaming Movie Rental Service
I was reminded of the VUDU service today. VUDU is a streaming service that lets you rent or buy movies and TV shows and streams them to you. They started out life as a dedicated box you would purchase that had a portion of the movies on their service cached on the internal hard drive. ...
Netflix Alternatives
As you read here, or on some other source, Netflix is raising their prices for the streaming and DVD combo service. They are raising it from $9.99 per month to $15.98. From the sound of their blog post on the subject, they are pretty resolute on this change. As always, our members can easily choose...
Netflix Raising Prices 60% in September
Or, if you go back in time to the point that Netflix added streaming to the service ($7.99 then) they are effectively doubling the price for streaming and one DVD at a time. Amazon Prime, and their one price for Prime shipping services and streaming, is starting to look more interesting. Prime is $79 per...