Netflix, for most of us, is the most legal type of crack cocaine that you can purchase. Now if you excuse me, I have to watch the entirety of South Park, which is posted streaming.
If you have any kind of videogame system or a smart TV and don’t have Netflix, you’re living your life wrong. It has more movie titles than I’ve ever seen in my life, far surpassing the dirty blankets on my street-corner where people hawk new and old DVD’s. It put Blockbuster in the dust – you will never go to another video store to rent a movie.
But they are restructuring – say goodbye to your flat 9.99 monthly rental plan that includes a DVD and a streaming service, instead they’re going to offer a DVD plan or a streaming plan, each priced at 7.99. You can still get the combined plan, but that’ll be for 15.98. And you’re not going to do that, because you’re poor. You’re a poor person who eats noodles at home watching Netflix’s collection of anime. Because they have such an extensive collection in anime, and you don’t see enough heaving bosom in your own life, you have to stay up until three in the morning trying to get through it all.
Yay.
Comments
Dan
July 13th, 2011 - 11:55:07 AM
We were about to switch from Blockbuster's dvd-by-mail service to Netflix streaming+DVD. But not now. Blockbuster doesn't have free streaming, but it has in-store exchanges and rental coupons, and it's down the street with a selection of new releases Netflix can't stream anyway. Add to that the dropping of much Showtime streaming content and I bet Netflix just lost more than a few potential customers.
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