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I don’t mind. Netflix is a steal of a deal IMHO. Their media is so satisfying to consume. I’ll take it over a nice entree at a restaurant any day.

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Where do you live that you can get a "nice" entrée for $13? That's what McDonalds costs here...

In Nebraska that'd be about right.

Probably outside of the US where entrée means starter instead of main course

Do you live in Europe? I don't know of anywhere that McDonald's costs that much in the US. Maybe the Times Square one if you get a full combo.

$13 gets you a nice entree in most any US city. Not white table cloth service of course, but you can find good and healthy food. Especially if we are talking just about the entree.

A lot of California, NYC, and other areas would be that much for a meal plus taxes. Also airports large college towns and some downtown areas for larger cities.

I usually don't spend less than $15-20 at fast food. But often it's multiple burgers without a bun, and a couple of side salads.

ok, multiple burgers and multiple side salads is not a normal meal at a fast food restaurant.

$13 is a burger and a soda at any sit-down restaurant in my town. At McDonalds that would get you two value meals.

I literally opened your profile to see if you were some troll account based on your comment. It appears not. A steal of a deal would be popcorntime but that is another story, but even at 13$ I don't feel there was any steal of a deal. It used to be 8$ and for the few times I watch tv in a month 8$ was on price point, 13 is not. I am still waiting for them to give some good reason to join again. Maybe it is because I come from a time where you could split the cable with a simple splitter and the entire house got your cable package. Now they only let so many streams at once or pay more. Now you only get a certain quality of stream or pay more.Nickle and dime us the entire way for no added value. I don't want to have to pay for 5 steams because my kids can't agree on what to watch and all need their own show. I just want the ease and convenience of things like xbmc and the likes. Willing to pay a fair price but once you start nickle and diming it makes people jaded.

It's only a steal if everything you want to watch is on Netflix.

If you want to watch stuff that's not on Netflix, when you start adding in $7.99 for Hulu, $9.99 (?) for Disney, $14.99 for HBO, etc then you're getting into the same price range you used to pay for cable. Netflix used to be a much better deal when it had a much larger movie catalog, but as content owners have cut back how much they are willing to license to Netflix (and/or made it more affordable), it's not such an amazing deal any more.

I'd gladly pay a provider $30/month if they had all of the content that was available. I don't think music streaming would be nearly as popular if you had to subscribe to a half dozen different providers to hear all of the music you want.

It doesn't even have to be a monopoly, providers should set one rate for their content, and others can buy it and monetize it any way they want.

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