Netflix's Internet option low on content

November 19, 2008 By Eric Benderoff

As my family looks to control spending, one option is to lower our in-home entertainment costs. We watch a lot of movies. But spending for HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel and Starz each month really adds to the cable bill and is starting to feel excessive.

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moj85 - Dec 09, 2008
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Gotta watch out with streaming online content - many service providers are now limiting the amount of Data you can send per month (oh how I love limitations for my money!). Dunno how much data is being sent per movie..
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