Jul 12 -

youngmanhattanite: stephenfalk: youngmanhattanite: ericmortensen: erockappel: gregrutter: DVD-only plans and streaming-only plans, but no plan that offers both. You have to get both separately. Also prices are going up significantly (it’ll be $17.99 for one DVD and streaming). Also they’re trying to rebrand their DVD distribution as “unlimited” but you only get one out at a time.  Also they make no mention of 2 or 3 DVDs at a time. Also they suddenly made something simple into something really confusing and complicated Goodbye DVDs. Yes. Blu-ray, too. Steve Jobs tried to kill them, but he couldn’t do it. Netflix can. God fuck it. Seriously. Was Netflix not making enough money? My Netflix payment is the best entertainment money I spend on a regular basis. Fuck it. Hello, Pirate Bay. And this is coming from an Old. “Oh my god a company has hooked me with their underpriced product and now is trying to make more money?!” I understand and semi-join the outrage, but the surprise is disingenuous. (And anyone who has ever written anything along the lines of, “Oh my god, ________ is not on Netflix streaming yet?! Get it together, Netflix!” needs to shut up and give them more money so they can make the increasingly-hard streaming deals with the content owners.) How dare you devalue my surprise, sir or madam! However, after actually reading the whole thing, it appears it will be 18 bucks for DVD and streaming. That’s still a good deal, so I retract my outrage. Oh hey, Bizarro Internet.