http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/ Engadget HD Comments for Netflix to charge "premium" for renting Blu-ray Discs http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 10:31PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 12:18AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
Ok, I will shut up now.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 12:46AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 1:09AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
I am 99% sure it will be a flat monthly additional fee to have your account enabled for Blu-Ray regardless of how many you rent. Why do I say this? Because every other metered plan they have rolled out, with a few exceptions for people that only want to rent one or two movies per month, have been abandoned quickly in favor of flat pricing for an "all you can eat" model... and I'm guess they have learned that is the way to go.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 12:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
If they had a premium in the first place, I'd have understood. I don't like being hit with it now. Hopefully, they'll grandfather in this long time customer.]]>Apr 21st 2008 10:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 5:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 10:52PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 11:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 11:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
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1st. Milk the sheep since it was forced. You pay $400 for a player and $20-$30 for movies, well you can pay more for renting.

2nd. Studios are paying much more for Blu-Ray disc production. You can of course choose to believe it or not, I'm not gonna argue with anyone. So they need to SELL more discs, thus they are limiting rental chains in the amount of discs they can buy. This directly reflects to the pricing that Netflix needs to do on Blu-Ray members.

Any way you look at it, this is nothing unexpected, we knew this would come with Blu-Ray.. one of the reasons why many of us supported HD DVD and it's usage of regular DVD replication factories.

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You can CERTAINLY bet that the studios are charging a BIG premium for Blu-ray rental discs. I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix was charged $200 or more for one disc.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 4:25AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 9:11AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 11:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 1:24PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
Good for the studios though, that made the decision for us. ]]>Apr 21st 2008 11:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 11:15AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 11:18AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 11:30AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Now that everyone is on board, the manufacturing process will get standardized and streamlined, the media will get cheaper, since there's only 1 type to make (although I'm not really sure about this, does anyone know if the physical media for BR and HDDVD were the
same?) Now that there is one standard, the competition is between the CE companies for the players and the studios for the titles.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:27AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 12:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 11:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
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On a separate note, I hope Blockbuster doesn't follow Netflix's move (which Netflix is probably praying that Blockbuster does to make their own move less impactful).]]>Apr 22nd 2008 7:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/blu-ray discs to my Queue on Blockbuster, I haven't paid an extra
dime as compared to when I was renting SD only.

On a separate note, I hope Blockbuster doesn't follow Netflix's move
(which Netflix is probably praying that Blockbuster does to make
their own move less impactful).]]>Apr 22nd 2008 7:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
So I'll pay a few bucks more, but that means I expect Netflix to ramp up their BD stock. If I am paying a premium I don't want to see half the blu-ray titles marked with with "very long wait" status.]]>Apr 21st 2008 11:34PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 11:09AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 11:55PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 21st 2008 11:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 12:55AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
more movies on watch now service and releasing a set top box.]]>Apr 21st 2008 11:59PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
/sarcasm]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:47AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 12:16AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
content on the watch now service and release your set top box.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 12:09AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 12:27AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 1:04AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 12:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 1:38AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
I recall hearing some talking point that implied that higher prices across the board might be the case if blu won out.

Oh well, the choice was made, now let's just enjoy paying tribute to the victor. (except for Fox, who for some reason can't seem to figure out the hi def part of HD Media and Paramount who are busy reaping what they've sown.)

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Getting rid of it as soon as they start charging more... but wait, if I never recieve any BD's anyway than there won't be any extra charges

lol]]>Apr 22nd 2008 4:50PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/
It's my guess that they're not getting much of a deal for bulk blu raypurchases. Unfortunately, forcing Netflix and Blockbuster to charge more for discs won't drive consumers to buy instead of rent as they manufacturers are probably dreaming (while passing the pipe among themselves).

Sorry guys, but most of the people I know that have gone high def (hd, bd, or hd then bd), have all immediately gotten a Netflix or Blockbuster account. ]]>Apr 22nd 2008 9:05AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/21/netflix-to-charge-premium-for-renting-blu-ray-discs/Apr 22nd 2008 9:19AM