Anyone downgrade their subscriptions and gone to NETFLIX for the movies?

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You know, Dish should make a box that has a Netflix app on it. They can't fight this, they should join it and make it really convenient for us. If they make it, I will buy it.

Surely the 922 could run a Netfix app.
 
I don't have Dish but I have dropped all premium channels on D*. My monthly bill with Netflix runs about 19 and it includes two DVDs out at a time, streaming, Blu-ray and taxes. To get all of the premiums on D* would be close to 50.
 
We watch HBO alot, both for movies and their show series, and specials. I find the price is worth it, but would have to reconsider if it were to rise much. That along with the free Encore movie pack, to me is a pretty good deal for someone who watches movies.
 
I dropped the spanish package and also dropped to 120 a year ago because E* dropped Voom, GolTV, and had my duoDVR 625 replaced twice with crashed drives. I've had netflix for 5 months and love it.
 
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I would echo the suggestion to give it a try. That's what I did a couple of years ago and have loved having Netflix ever since. At first, I just hooked the Laptop to the TV and streamed it that way. Now I have 2 blu-ray players w/netflix, streaming on the wii and I watch it through media center on the pc ( needs live to stream ).

The highest I have been was 2 discs at a time when I first joined. We dropped back to 1 disc at a time (unlimited) because that was about all of the movie watching we could fit into a week. Now I do one disc and stream stuff now and then. Lately, I have been catching up on older shows of Top Gear and Battlestar Galactica.

But like others have said, you can try for a month free. Netflix customer service is very nice and won't argue if you change your mind.
 
I have the 1 disc, blu-ray and streaming and I'm working on her to let me drop the premiums and maybe even downgrade from 250 if we drop the premiums. I have really enjoyed Netflix. As for new stuff, I don't know how far down the list I am but both Red and Salt arrive later this month. Don't know when they're scheduled for one of the premiums. And I too have been catching up on old series that I previously missed. Plus watching some over, like The Dresden Files I'm working on now. And many of the good BBC mysteries are on DVD so I get them through the mail. The timer got messed up for the last episode of Luther. A couple of days later it was in my mailbox and I got all caught up.
 
I started with Dish and the AEP package then dropped to AT250 with 2 movie channels and currently have the AT200 package with no movie channels. I recently added the Roku box and joined Netflix. Neflix has been great so far both in streaming quality and speed of DVD shipments. I hope Netflix doesn't follow the rest and continuously raise their prices. They offer a great price for the amount of movies they offer. If Dish keeps raising fees and prices, and I will continue to drop down on the package levels. Dish has way too many shopping channels and is not worth the price that they charge.
 
KAB said:
You're forgetting the shopping channels PAY Dish and all other providers to be on.
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In addition, I would set up a favorites list to take out the channels that I do not want to flip through such as those shopping channels. :)
 
rexlan said:
Looking at NETFLIX I can't tell if they essentially have most of the movies all the premiums have. Seems most of HBO/Stars is junk anymore with the series stuff and soon to be commercials in between.

Has anyone any first hand experience with NETFLIX ... good - bad - waste of time?
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Netflix is the way to go. Plus all Starz movies are included with Netflix in Starz play.
 
I am the only one disappointed in the quality of Netflix streaming. I don't know if it's my internet speed but I think it is less than dvd quality
 
I dropped down to the 120 HDFree and Netflix. I'm couldn't be happier I did that. Most of what I watched was on the locals and the SyFy channel. I could get all the movies I want from Netflix. Forget the overpriced PPVs. Two of those and my Netflix sub is paid for.
 
I am using the google revue unit and it is upconverted to 1080p. The hd movies look better to me over netflix than on DISH premium movie channels. I have good internet speeds as well.
 

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