Netflix Raises Prices on Blu-ray Rental Plans

In a daring move today Netflix announced that it will be restructuring (raising prices) on their additional monthly charge for Blu-ray discs.



Nexflix members were greeting with an email this morning explain the new pricing structure for Blu-ray discs will be seen on your monthly bill on or after April 27. The new Blu-ray plan is tiered and your additional cost is dependent on the plan to which you subscribe.

For example, the unlimited 1 DVD a month plan has a $2 a month Blu-ray sin tax, the unlimited 2 discs at a time has a $3 sin tax, and so on.

And to think it was only October when Netflix announced they were only charging an extra dollar ($1) for Blu-ray on all plans.

The Netflix email claims the price is attributed to their need to grow their current Blu-ray collection and to offset the more expensive cost of Blu-ray discs because they are "substantially more expensive than standard definition DVDs." (their words not ours)

Click on the picture below to read the email in all its glory.



Good thing you can read blogs at no extra cost.

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