Netflix Launches Streaming Movie Plan for $7.99

Tell Netflix: No captions, no money - http://bit.ly/hQqkek

Hi Jessica,

Thanks for pointing out the issue of captions for the deaf and hearing impaired.  It’s certainly not one that is not being addressed well currently for the streaming service.  Though it’s only recently that many movies were even streamable in HD through Netflix, so the service still has plenty of development ahead of it.

Hopefully, closed captioning will be addressed in a future release.  Perhaps if you contact them, Netflix will also make acommodations for the DVD pricing plan for the hearing impaired.

They said they were going to address it 8 months ago. They did. However, 300 out of 17,000 is just not good enough. The only way they’ll listen is if a big enough group of deaf and HOH people cancel their subscription. We’ll see how this all turn out.

I am so Disappointed. I just signed up for a trial of Netflix streaming and immediately browsed and searched through listings available. I wasn’t asking for the newest or hottest releases, simply a few fairly new, but not too old ones (Harry Potter - Azkaban, Sherlock Holmes, The Toothfairy) All were available to Disk rental, which is the last thing I want. There were a ton of movies I had NEVER heard of on there as well a small handful of decent ones tossed in for good measure.

I almost canceled within 10 minutes of activation, but am sitll considering the value of waiting. If I keep it past today, I’ll set an alarm to remind me to cancel within 3 weeks if the selections haven’t improved significantly.

@Cyn Netflix streaming is definitely not a great solution for newer releases, especially the Hollywood Blockbusters.  Vudu or Amazon OnDemand are better, but you need to rent on a one-off basis, typically paying $4.99 per movie if you watch in HD, making them much more expensive options.

The fact that there are a ton of movies you have never heard of on Netflix may be a good thing.  Because many of these are GREAT movies - just older or smaller release/foreign films - and you may find some surprises that you would not otherwise have known about.  For instance, Steig Larsen’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is a terrific Swedish production that is on Netflix.  Now Hollywood is making their own version, which will no doubt be much worse and not available on Netflix.

Netflix is also great for kids shows.  We watch tons of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Mythbusters and Walking with Dinosaurs in our house. And Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods does wonders for encouraging our kids to try new foods!