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Sounds like Hastings charmed them.

I'm a Netflix streaming subscriber and even though it's so cheap - I'm considering canceling because they don't bring enough new content online for me to get value from the service.




My wife and I use Netflix differently than you. Netflix is not what's new but what's good. And over the past year we have discovered that there is a lot of good content on Netflix, you just have to change your viewing habits. We don't look for a movie released last year. We look for a sci-fi movie with a time-travel theme or a comedy show about evil corporatations. Also, I highly recommend instantwatcher.com to find good stuff to watch.


Netflix is not what's new but what's good.

Exactly. It's like the early days of DVD -- you had people whining and moaning about the lack of Star Wars or Titanic, when there were already more great films in release than you'd ever have time to watch. Netflix streaming works the same way -- you can't turn on the TV with the intent of watching a specific Hollywood A-list movie, but if you turn on the TV with the intent of watching something good, you will not be disappointed.


You really can't get one movie's worth of value out of it per month, even with the extensive catalog of older stuff they have? Cause that's all you really need to get out of it to make it worthwhile...

I'm finding Netflix streaming over the $99 AppleTV to be an incredibly better deal than paying $70-$80 a month for digital cable.




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