(From another thread, where it's off-topic).
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Originally Posted by
buonforte 
Mike, you sound like an intelligent guy. You certainly have a lot of posts to your credit. I take you as the kind of guy that has a State-Of-The-Art Home Theater system. A fantastic display and full blown 7.1 surround sound. Probably, top notch names.
Therefore, I cannot understand why someone of your status, would even consider using Netflix. I would think that you would only buy/rent HD/blu ray movies. Do you really care that it's only 8.00 a month? There's a reason it's only $8 a month. Like anything else, you get what you pay for.
Living on disability retirement benefits, I don't have the money for the latest and greatest and all of my A/V equipment is pretty middle-of-the-road. I find that I don't require BD-quality 1080p and lossless surround for everything, just for the big sound, big picture, special effects laden extravaganzas; for those I generally rent or purchase the BD.
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Therefore, I cannot understand why someone of your status, would even consider using Netflix. I would think that you would only buy/rent HD/blu ray movies. Do you really care that it's only 8.00 a month? There's a reason it's only $8 a month. Like anything else, you get what you pay for.
My most common use for Netflix streaming is to watch television shows that I didn't choose to watch when they first appeared, as well as British series that I don't get a chance to see at all. One example of the former is
Warehouse 13--in the summer lull I'd taken an interest in it and set a "Season Pass" to record it on my TiVo, but had missed the first two seasons. I watched the entire first season on Netflix, in 1080p w/5.1 sound. Sadly the 2nd season isn't available on Netflix yet so I had to pick it up elsewhere, but even having the first season available was a good thing. I watched the first couple of seasons of
Damages and some other stuff, am currently watching the UK version of
Being Human before watching the more recent US version and plan to watch
Downton Abbey,
Breaking Bad and
The Walking Dead.
Most of the movies that I've watched on Netflix have been indie films, like the Swedish "Millenium Trilogy" (
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo and its sequels), both
Let the Right One In (also Swedish) and the US remake,
Let Me In and
Trollhunter (Norwegian--just a coincidence that the first ones that I thought of off the top of my head were all subtitled scandanavian films
).
Lately there've been an increasing number of recent films, like
Limitless,
Trespass,
No Strings Attached and the 2011 remake of
True Grit (they also have the 1969 John Wayne original). But if you're primarily interested in recent blockbuster theatrical releases, Netflix isn't where you'll find them. For $8/month, it's unreasonable to expect to.
I've been told that it
great for people with kids. Not having any, I couldn't say for sure, but the Disney Channel's
Phineas and Ferb is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I partially kid only because it amazes me people still think as FB and Twitter as wastes, even though you don't have to use it for the things they think are wasteful)
I imagine most of the video content providers have similar ones.
