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Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month (time.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Millions of Netflix customers are about to start paying more to stream their favorite movies and TV shows -- and chances are, they don't even realize it. In May 2014, Netflix raised the price of its standard streaming plan for new subscribers, to $9.99 a month. However, the price hike did not apply to existing customers, who were grandfathered into their current rates of $7.99 a month for a two-stream, HD plan, Business Insider reported. Unfortunately, the good times are about to end for this customer base, which analysts estimate at about 17 million people, or 37% of Netflix's U.S. subscribers. In May, all grandfathered customers will be required to fork over $9.99 to continue to watch Netflix. Even worse, about 80% of those who will be affected by the price increase did not realize it was coming, according to research from JP Morgan.
they've also removed a LOT of content in those two years....so frankly maybe even less content overall than they had then, although i can't go back and count every single addition for every subtraction. They removed Miami Vice, Knight Rider, a bunch of Law & Order stuff, the Mission Impossible movies, Rambo movies, Rocky movies, a bunch of kids stuff (Sesame street etc)... to review it even closer to can go to Whats On Netflix
..before marriage and kids b/c it was just so much cheaper than going out and paying an insane amount of money for just one season of a tv program.
A lot of those shows come on regular tv often but they have removed a LOT of 70s-80s shows/movies that a lot of people watched regularly and the main reason I even joined Netflix
The other thing is, is that they STILL have not improved their user interface. There still isn't an way to search a list of movies that are new, old, popular or just look at all of the movies in an alphabetized list. Basically you have to know what movie you want to watch, search for it and then hope that its there. Thats a pretty epic fail. So yeah, I think $2 extra a month is pretty ridiculous when they haven't even made any improvements on that front either.