The company had been treating DVDs as a $2 add on to the unlimited streaming plans since its . However, it soon realized that DVDs remain a popular feature, and that strategy didn't make "great financial sense" for the company.

I do consider this change to be somewhat unfortunate given the state of Netflix's streaming offerings. At least for me--in most cases--I often find the selection woefully inadequate for what I'm looking to watch. So putting it on even pricing with DVDs doesn't make sense to me.

You'd think if it costs the same, it should offer the same right? Well it doesn't. But then again, as far as DVDs-by-mail go, Netflix is pretty much the only game in town now that Blockbuster . Oh well, there's always Redbox.

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