You guys rock.

[bronwynrh]

I love my brilliant friends here on LJ. Tonight, hats off to marstokyo who has inspired me to solve my entertainment woes.

I've got a cable subscription with Insight. Insight likes to raise my rates. In the <5 years I've lived here, my cable rates have gone up more than $13 a month. Unacceptable, if you ask me. rozsdan suggested I cancel my cable, especially since I have so much to do this year, and should stay away from the zombie machine, anyway.

He's right, of course.

BUT I need something I can rot my brain to, right? Reading and cross stitching take up too much brain power. I need my mind-numbing media.

Solution? Drop the cable and subscribe to Netflix! 4-8 movies at a time, I can keep em as long as I want, and it's CHEAP.

I am so in. I'm going to call Insight tomorrow and drop my cable plan down to the bare-bones so I will get local weather and PBS, at least. That's just $13. Netflix is, what, $10 a month? Less, maybe? That'll save me more than $20 a month!

Alright, that's it. Decision is made. Netflix, here I come!

Comments

[srallen.livejournal.com]

And will you be needing any recommendations? ;)

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Of course!

I just found that netflix is $20/month - damn, that's more than double what it was when I first learned of it.

That's ok, I'll still save more than $10 a month. That $10 will go straight into my car loan. :-) Easy come, easy go.

[potch1214.livejournal.com]

Yes, Bramey, Netflix is $20/month for 3 movies at a time.

It is $25/month for five and $30 or $35/moth for 8.

Trust me, I watch a LOT of movies and three is just fine.

Plus, look at it this way...

IF you can watch 3 movies over every weekend, and return your movies in the mail on Monday, you have three new ones every Thursday, which works out to about 12 movies a month.

For $20.

Less than $2/movie.

You can't beat Netflix with a stick. I've been a member for 15 months now and LOVE it. In that time, I have been to the video store exactly TWICE because I didn't have movies I wanted to see RIGHT NOW.

YOu have chosen wisely, grasshoppa.

[boreal.livejournal.com]

Mucho clever! *stands up and applauds* Good for you!

[srallen.livejournal.com]

Hells, my queue right now is at 205 movies. If I see 5 movies/discs a month, the costs work themselves out. *grins*

Recommendations? If you haven't seen Lost in Translation yet... School of Rock is a lot of fun, if dopey :) High Fidelity is a must-see and I think that Croupier is noir genius.

NEXT! :)

[suladog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it's like 20 bucks a month or something..we've been members for over a year now..they're great....we get hundreds of channels on our digital cable but most of it except for HBO and various news junkie hits during the day we don't look at most of it.

[suladog.livejournal.com]

we do the 3 movies at a time by the way..we own about 400 DVD's.....we never buy anything we haven't already seen....Alan's just ringing up when we get a month and it's also about 12 films.....sometimes we may look at 2 movies a night..up in Sonoma Blockbuster has a great plan that supposedly they're implementing in other places..20 bucks a month..up to 2 DVDs a day..keep em as long as you want..up there we average between 35 and 60 films a month..sweeeeet!!!!