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Old 11-11-2011, 02:14 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by jocampo View Post
To be fair, New Color will provide access to Hulu and Netflix, if I'm not mistaken. Now, let's do some calculations.

Basic Netflix subscription is about 9 bucks (monthly) and Hulu is about the same. Assuming people got both, will be paying almost 20 bucks per month, after a year is a bit more of $216.

Let's say a user only subscribe to Netflix, that $108 per year, without access to most recent movies or TV shows. Still, about 30 dollars more than being a Prime member.

I don't see how (for movies at least) the B&N device can provide a better value.

However, at least for movies or multimedia content, a Kindle fire user will be tied up to Amazon. So that's kind of a disadvantage, less freedom I think.

For the records: I'm Netflix user as well.
I don't think people are taking the price of Netflix into account because chances are most people already have Netflix account. So using Netflix with the nook is a plus. Where as I don't think everybody who is interested in the Fire has a Prime membership.

That said I think this argument is moot because the Fire is getting Netflix and Hulu.

And folks that have a nook can just as easily watch Amazon Prime movies over the browser with Flash. That's how it's done with google TV and it works just fine.

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