blog.netflix.com - 3/30/2009
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Hi, Jessie Becker here, VP of Marketing, with a message for our members who have added Blu-ray access to their accounts. This message does not apply to you if you have not added Blu-ray access to your account. The number of titles available for us to purchase on Blu-ray has increased ...
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Netflix Raises Blu-ray Rates: Time to Switch to Blockbuster?
Today @ PC World —
... change will affect you: Basically, the higher your monthly bill, the higher your Blu-ray fee will soon be. If you pay $13.99 a month for the two DVDs at a time plan, for example, you'll have to pay $3 a month extra for access to Blu-ray titles under the new system. On the other end of the spectrum, if you pay $47.99 for the eight DVDs at a time plan, your Blu-ray surcharge will jump to $9 a month. (You can find a full list of all the Netflix rate plans and how they'll be affected here .) As for the reason driving the change, about 10 percent of Netflix users now rent Blu-ray ...
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Netflix to Charge Customers up to $9 More Per Month for Blu-Ray Rentals
Maximum PC —
... "We’re committed to providing a high quality Blu-ray experience for our members who choose to add Blu-ray access, and in order to do that we need to adjust Blu-ray pricing. As a result, the monthly charge for Blu-ray access is increasing for most plans and will now vary by plan," wrote Jessie Teitz, Netflix's VP of marketing, in a blog post. ...
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Netflix ups Blu-ray surcharge to $9 for heaviest users
arstechnica.com 3/30/2009 —
Less than six months after Netflix imposed a $1 surcharge for Blu-ray lovers , the company has decided to jack up its rates once again. In an e-mail sent to subscribers today, Netflix said that it would be raising its Blu-ray access charge to as much as $9 per month on top of a ...
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The Last DVD and Blu-Ray Ripping Guide You'll Ever Need —
Maximum PC
We’ve become so accustomed to the ease and convenience of iTunes and blink-and-you-miss-’em CD rips that we forget how in the mid-1990s, ripping a CD was a time-consuming process fraught with peril. Shoot, ripping a single disc to a 128Kbps MP3 could take eight hours on a 200MHz ...
Netflix hikes rates for Blu-ray subscribers —
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Netflix announced yesterday that they would be increasing the monthly fee by 20-22% for those subscribers that have added Blu-ray rentals to their accounts. According to Jessie Becker, VP of Marketing, Blu-ray adoption among subscribers is at about 10%...
Netflix Brings In a Hefty Blu-ray Rental Increase —
Digital Trends
While others are cutting prices in the scramble for more business, Netflix has decided to take the opposite tack. It’s increasing the premium for Blu-ray discs by $3 a month on its three discs at a time plan, pushing the price from $16.99 a month to $20.99.
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Netflix ups Blu-ray surcharge to $9 for heaviest users —
GamingHeaven.net
It hasn't even been six months since Netflix first imposed a $1 per month surcharge on subscribers who want to rent Blu-ray movies. Now, the company is bumping its rates even higher for almost all subscription tiers, topping out at $9 per month on top of the normal rate. Netflix says it's ...
iPhone to become Blu-ray player remote —
Hardware Zone
NetBlender will announce on April 10th BD Touch , a new iPhone/iPod Touch app that will allow the Apple devices to act as a remote for Blu-ray players. BD Touch utilizes the networking functionality of Blu-ray players as well as the Apple device hardware to transmit data seamlessly.According... ...
ArcSoft Launches New Blu-ray and HD Media Player —
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ArcSoft has announced its latest media software for the PC called TotalMedia Theater 3. The software allows users to playback Blu-ray content and other HD media with enhanced features. The new version of the software supports the Xonar HDAV series audio ca...
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