WOW! Netflix

I have been sick of cable tele­vi­sion for a long time. I have never been happy about pay­ing $60/mo for a hand full of chan­nels. I dropped cable like a bad habit, but I didn’t like over the air tele­vi­sion either. I went a long time with­out watch­ing tele­vi­sion at all.

I tried watch­ing ultra pix­e­lated Net­flix and Hulu streams through PlayOn and my Nin­tendo Wii, but that did not sat­isfy me. Around this time I heard Net­flix was com­ing to Wii, so I signed up for a disc.

Finally, my >Net­flix for Wii disc arrived about two week later. It was a highly antic­i­pated event, and I ran from the mail­box to the liv­ing room I like a child who just received a Nin­tendo DS or something.

I popped the disc in, and learned that the setup was sim­ple, and that choos­ing movies and shows were sim­ple, as well. I like that it showed pro­grams that were not in my queue and also gave me rec­om­men­da­tions based on what I have in my queue.

The pic­ture is ultra clear on my 32″ CRT HDTV. I can enjoy pixel free pro­grams with no stut­ter­ing, and it has caused me to watch more TV than I had watched in at least a decade. (I usu­ally watch about two hours of TV a week).

Since we only have one tele­vi­sion in the entire house (by choice), it”s nice that I can look at Net­flix on my lap­top and desk­top if the tele­vi­sion is occupied.

I enjoy the movie options that I have, and when com­bined with my Net­flix DVD’s I feel like I am still cur­rent with shows and movies.

I really can­not say enough about Net­flix, it’s lib­er­at­ing to know there is some­thing you want to watch on TV, when you decide to sit down and watch it. Even my 3 year old daugh­ter can pick up the remote and watch TV. Net­flix has allowed me to sleep in a lit­tle longer, because she can turn on Net­flix, and choose Veg­gi­eTales, Bar­ney, Caliou, and Dora with ease (The Wii sys­tem is eas­ier for her than the TV remote).

Either way if you just want to save some money by cut­ting a bill, or if you strug­gle to find show you like on cable, and then won­der, why do I pay for this every month, I think it’s worth a try. Net­flix even made it easy for you to test the water by offer­ing a 14-day trial.