The recent customer uproar over Netflix raising their prices was a little overblown. It’s a business, they need to make money. With the expense of negotiating contracts with studios over streaming content, Netflix needed to adjust their pricing. I understand that, and that’s their right.

Although as customers, we have to decide what to do. Keep what we have and accept the price increase or make changes. I started with the 3 DVD at a time, unlimited plan about 5 years ago. When Netflix added their Watch Now streaming, I saw it as a nice bonus. Most of the time I had enough on my hands trying to keep up with the 3 DVDs. I only watched the streaming when I didn’t have a DVD to watch.

But for me it’s all about the content. I couldn’t care less about the mode of delivery. Netflix’s DVD library is huge. I can get almost anything I want, and 3 DVDs at a time is more than I can handle most times. In contrast, their streaming Watch Now content is full of movies and TV shows I’ve either already seen or never wanted to see. Also there’s a lot of just plain crappy movies.

Sure there are a few things I’ll miss. I just started to get into Mad Men now that it’s on streaming, but then again I can also get those on DVD.

So I’ve decided to cancel the streaming from my 3 DVD at a time plan, and just go with the unlimited 3 DVDs. It’s actually going to save me about $5 a month. Ironically, I think that’s the opposite of Netflix’s hope to wean customers off DVDs and onto streaming only.

If they really want to get streaming going, I think their subscription model is a good plan over pay per view streaming services. But it will never be worth it to me until they get a better streaming selection and new releases. Again, it’s about the content.