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Originally Posted by jocampo
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.
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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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