A Pox On Your House, Netflix
What a boneheaded thing to do. My wife and I maintain a 2/1 split on our three-disc subscription because she watches many more movies and TV-on-DVD releases than I do. I have no interest in her stuff and she only has a passing interest in most of mine. Now that our queues will be smashed up into each other, we’ll have to manually manage what is coming to us (difficult, if not impossible) to make sure we aren’t stuck with an overload of video for one user and media starvation for the other. This move pretty much kills the utility of Netflix for my household, and I can’t understand for the life of me what practical purpose they have behind it. Sure, I guess they could be hoping that people will pony up more dough for additional subscriptions, but if I wanted to spend $35+ instead of $18 on entertainment, I’d get digital cable and a Tivo.
If someone knows of a compelling technical reason for them to do this, please tell me.
When the wife gets home, we’re going to talk this over. We may well decide to cancel Netflix.