Originally Posted by
Zaphod
That's a fair comment, but here's a few things to consider:
1. Based on the pricing you've outlined above, your Amazon Prime membership appears to be the special $2.99/month intro offer, so we should probably talk about the normal full price which is $6/month.
2. Your Light box sub isn't really free, it's just bundled into a larger broadband fee, so that's another $13/month - remember, you could subscribe to an ISP like Bigpipe and get unlimited cap and 100/20 service for $20-$50/month less (dependant upon which plan you are on with your existing ISP)
So for Amazon Prime + Lightbox + Netflix you're really spending $34/month + the extra fees associated with your broadband cap. Let's say you're having to spend another $20 to obtain a higher cap, so now you're up to $54/month. So the savings aren't quite what they appear to be.
My take on Netflix is that although the back-catalogue of older content is large, we (and most of our friends) have seen a large proportion of that over the last 15+ years elsewhere, so it's the new exclusive content that we're interested in. Of that there's a few worth watching but there are a lot of very average shows in the catalogue. Hence why we end up with sub's to multiple services and we're back approaching SkyTV costs.