When I chat with friends and coworkers I feel like the only person who doesn’t have a Netflix account. When I admit to this I usually get a laundry list of reasons I should join followed by a “I never watch TV anymore” as if sitting your couch potato butt on the couch watching a Netflix DVD is so much better than watching broadcast TV. Here’s my list of reasons why I don’t use Netflix:
1. I have DirecTivo – Dual tuners even that grabs whatever shows I want. If you have a single tuner Tivo you don’t know what you’re missing.
2. DirecTV Pay-per-View – If I really want to watch a movie I just set my Tivo to record it a few weeks after it’s arrived on DVD.
3. My Tivo is easier to work than my DVD player, and I don’t feels stressed about getting a DVD back to Netflix to they can RUSH me the next movie in queue.
4. Netflix keeps changing their prices – Hard to believe but I was an early Netflix user when you could keep four movies for $15. Then Netflix raised their prices to 20 bucks for three movies. I just got tired of their crap.
5. There’s enough good TV – The Daily Show, The Office, Lost, 30 Rock, Studio 60…..just to name a few.
There is one thing I do miss about Netflix and that is the access to hard to find indie or documentary films that don’t hit PPV or our local Blockbuster. Movies like “The Smartest Guys in the Room” or “An Inconvenient Truth” I end up buying anyway.
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When I got Netflix, I assumed I would mostly use it for new Hollywood blockbusters, but something strange happened about 2 months in. I started watching TV shows in full season format, something I could never do with my Tivo alone.
I finally caught on to the rich, creamy goodness of Battlestar Gallactica a few weeks ago, and have obsessively been watching episodes back-to-back, without the headache of trying to record reruns and the like.
I’m convinced this is simply the only way to watch TV shows that are into a new season. I missed the first few episodes of 24, no problem. I don’t get HBO for Deadwood and Entourage, no problem.
I’m not really avant garde in my timelyness, but I can live with that.
And finally, the ability to watch an entire season is a heavely, glorious thing in this age of on-demand lifestyles. If I could do this with all seasons of Lost, I wouldn’t have to suppress the overwhelming urge to beat all of its writers with a ham.
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Being able to watch entire seasons would be nice. I guess we are too impatient. We did that with Lost but ended up buying the first season on DVD. That’s a show that benefits with back to back to back viewing. It does feel a bit strange to end up paying for a service like Netflix when I’m already paying for the programing on DirecTV.
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