On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:12 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > > I know there is still a lot of bitching and gnashing of teeth about this, > but my experience is that Netflix just gave me a price cut. I was always > going to go back to 1 disk + streaming in September, and with the exception > of the Christmas holiday period, we almost only ever used that last year for > streaming purposes. The only exception was that my son and I got into > watching Voyager, and would try to watch a disc every week or two - but now > that all of that is streaming (with, I am told, DS9 to come online soon) we > really wont miss the 1 disc much.
Once I looked over the options and decided to drop streaming Netflix became cheaper for me too. I can think of a situation where I would drop the discs and just go to streaming, which would be cheaper still, but I can't think of where I would want two discs and streaming. <snip> > > But for the most part we are happy with Comcast, especially because we are > saving about $70/month over previous services from DIrecTV and AT&T, with > access to all of the premium channels, and all of their HD channels, which > we did not have before (plus the money I am saving not paying for the NFL > package - or the NBA package if the lockout continues). I guess that savings > will last for 2 years (somewhat decreased in year 2), and of course, now we > have a clear signal on every channel, something we had lost on about half of > the DirecTV channels. My kids also think its cool when we can see who is > calling the land-line on our TV screen. A friend called me yesterday asking advice on TV options. He told me that Comcast charges him $170/month for hookups to three TVs (one HD) and landline phone. DirecTV is offering him the TV hookups (no DVR) for $57. And they're throwing in a year of Sunday Ticket. For his phone, he has a cell phone from work and his bosses don't care about using it for personal calls, so I told him he could either drop the landline completely (I just read that 20% of households are cell only) or get the cheapest plan from Verizon and make all his toll and long distance calls from his cell phone. For TV I told him to call Dish Network to see if they have a better offer and to call Comcast before the satellite installer comes to see if the retention department can make it worth his while to stay. -- 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
