The great Netflix pricing kerfluffle

It's old news by now... but Netflix has decided to separate out their streaming service from their DVD rental service in September, and charge extra in the process (up to 60% more, for people with the current unlimited one-DVD-at-a-time service). This has, of course, set off much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Internet, because the old setup was a Good Thing for consumers... but, of course, all good things come to an end.

In my case... well, right now I'm on the two-DVD-at-a-time service level, with an extra charge for Blu-Ray discs on top. The thing is, most of my reason for having DVD service at all is to get at some older content (especially anime) that simply isn't available on anybody's streaming service legally, to the best of my knowledge. I toss in some more "normal" fare between those discs, and sometimes I stumble across something more than "just OK" that way, but few and far between... and, more and more, the old discs are slowly fading from the Netflix library, which can be really annoying if you've watched the first few discs of a multi-disc series.

So, barring a sudden reversal by Netflix, I think I'm going to go on an anime binge, and round out any disc-based series that I'm mid-way through. After that, I'll likely hold on to the streaming account for the time being... so long as the price on that doesn't start creeping up needlessly, and the available selection continues to work for me, and streaming quality through Comcast doesn't go back downhill again, it's a reasonable price. Of course, should Amazon improve their selection and give better queue-management tools, or some other service comes out that I can use my Roku box with and that I think I'll like better, I'll jump ship in a heartbeat.