On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:41 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Why did you change now? I thought there were keeping the status quo for >> current subscribers until September 1? > > I haven't changed yet. If changing the plan now will lower the monthly > rate to $12 I'll do so quickly, if the rate will stay at $15 no matter > what, I'll wait until the end of August.
More to the point, I read about others who switched to streaming-only plans and lost their queues. I suppose I am just mentally preparing myself for life without streaming. I'm telling myself it's better to make a clean break rather than going to the streaming queue for the next 6 weeks and deciding which of the 150 films/TV series in the queue I'm going to have to give up on in that format. And to get a little more personal with it, I pretty much gave up going to the movies in the late nineties. And not having any cable movie channels, I just gave up watching movies and started compiling a mental catalog of movies I'd really like to see someday if the opportunity arose. When Netflix came there was a satisfying period of a couple of months where I could scour my memory or leaf through TCM listings or Maltin books, identify movies in my must-see list, and add them to my queue. In my first two years as a Netflix member I watched about 100 movies each year (I counted). My must-see list is depleted. I still have long queues for both DVDs and streaming, but those are more opportunity movies, movies I would like to see if I get a chance, but if I don't there are no regrets. And at the same time I started Netflix I made a personal commitment, in the form of a New Year's resolution, not to buy any new books until I finish reading the books I already own. While I haven't been perfect on the buying side, although I have gotten a much better sense of impulse control, my lack of speed in getting through books is dismaying. The two main factors keeping me from reading are time spent on the internet and time spent watching Netflix movies. I have cut back my time spent on the net considerably and I hold on to Netflix discs longer, not pushing myself to watch them immediately when I get them and exchange them quickly. Which leads to my final answer: I am considering dropping Netflix streaming before September 1 in order to free up more time for reading. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
