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Re:Netflix kills Qwikster by ctdonath on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:31AM (#3093671)
Having a couple discs rotting on the shelf for a month or so before watching seemed a good indicator to cancel, but having gone thru the trouble of setting up two queues with 300+ titles I wasn't keen on losing that list and the eternal hope of someday getting to those movies. For a couple bucks more a month I'd retain the lists and, someday, watch the movies.

Then the split came. Quadrupling the price of "someday..." wasn't worth it. Copied the lists to a text file, and cancelled. Insofar as Netflix streaming doesn't have everything, iTunes (yay AppleTV!) has most everything else available on a whim for a mere $2-5/rental. With kids streaming their shows on demand (no scratches! no fingerprints! no oatmeal in the DVD player!) from a vast instant library, and me not watching much at all (but when I do, a few bucks for "this, now" works fine), one slick box fusing a few streaming video services (yay AppleTV!) works well.

I'm not sure how Netflix intends to attract back the million or so who cancelled. We've adapted; why return?

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