The best Christmas gift of 2008 that I received was a year long Netflix subscription. Now, I know that sounds a little materialistic. Should not your best gift be “Peace on Earth” or a “Healthy family?” Sure, but those are so generic and pithy that it sounds pretty silly. Netflix, therefore, is the ideal gift given to me.
Why is Netflix my ideal gift? I have a few reasons. First, I spend a lot of time watching TV and movies on my laptop computer because I often have a hard time falling asleep. I can just basically turn off my mind while I watch TV on the PC and drift off to sleep. The 1 year Netflix Christmas gift gives me an almost unlimited amount of content for a fairly low price. It is much cheaper than buying all those DVD’s and then watching them or renting them one at a time. It is even cheaper than the library because I often have a hard time returning the movies on time and the library fees add up very quickly.
Netflix allows you to keep the movie for as long as you want, but you can not get another movie until you return the first one. Therefore, there are no return fees. Secondly, on the subscription plan given to me, I am able to get one movie or TV series at a time – which means I can potentially get 10 movies a month (one day to arrive and watch, another day to return, and the third day to arrive again).
More importantly, the plan which I received allows unlimited streaming. A few years ago, on one the lower end plans, Netflix limited the number of hours that could be streamed per month . But now that has changed and Netflix claims there are 12,000 items available for streaming. Some videos are very old and uninteresting to me, but there are also some recent ones and some very recent television shows.
With my broadband connection I get very high quality streaming. Getting the steaming to work with Firefox took some work even though their web page says Firefox version 2 was supported. Stick with Internet Explorer to watch the videos and you will not have any problems.
And for the kids, Netflix integrated into the Xbox 360 system so there is the opportunity for my kids to watch streaming video as well. I have already set them up to watch “Black Beauty” and the classic version of “Dr. Doolittle.”
If you want to get the Netflix gift subscription for someone you know, check out www.netflix.com. It is $107.88 for the subscription I received for Christmas and you can easily order online. A free trial is available here. http://www.netflix.com/SpreadTheWord?lnkctr=FAQ
What was your best gift?