Watch Now is like the free drugs a dealer gives out before he starts collecting the money. Anybody who thinks it will have the same hundred thousand title collection included in the current Netflix physical library AND that it will remain at 10 dollars a month (or even 20) is naive.
Physical rentals have limits. If you pay 10 bucks for 2 at a time Netflix knows its unlikely that you'll rent more than X number of discs a month. But with streaming it totally different. Since there is no mail or throttling to slow us down, the 10 dollar month person consumes just as much or more than the 40 dollar month person.
So don't expect the 10 dollar a month free ride to last forever. If Netflix eventually becomes this amazing repository of movies and TV shows for which you could justify canceling cable TV then an all-you-can-eat subscription won't go for anything less than what a reasonable digital cable tier goes for. I'm guessing 60-80 dollars a month.
But that assumes they can get the good content in there before they have to start charging more. I doubt I'd pay even 10 dollars a month for what they have right now.
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minimalist @ Dec 19th 2008 12:30AM
Watch Now is like the free drugs a dealer gives out before he starts collecting the money. Anybody who thinks it will have the same hundred thousand title collection included in the current Netflix physical library AND that it will remain at 10 dollars a month (or even 20) is naive.
Physical rentals have limits. If you pay 10 bucks for 2 at a time Netflix knows its unlikely that you'll rent more than X number of discs a month. But with streaming it totally different. Since there is no mail or throttling to slow us down, the 10 dollar month person consumes just as much or more than the 40 dollar month person.
So don't expect the 10 dollar a month free ride to last forever. If Netflix eventually becomes this amazing repository of movies and TV shows for which you could justify canceling cable TV then an all-you-can-eat subscription won't go for anything less than what a reasonable digital cable tier goes for. I'm guessing 60-80 dollars a month.
But that assumes they can get the good content in there before they have to start charging more. I doubt I'd pay even 10 dollars a month for what they have right now.