Netflix has a new DVD-only plan.
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)The $7.99 plan, offered at a new page on the Netflix site, allows users to have one DVD out a time on an unlimited basis. According to a Netflix salesperson who spoke to CNET today, those who want to include Blu-ray discs in the new plan will need to pay $9.99 per month. Internet streaming of video content is not included.
NewTeeVee was the first to report Netflix's new plan, which will help round out the company's current slate of plans. In addition to its streaming-only $8-per-month option, Netflix offers customers DVD-and-streaming plans that range from $9.99 to $55.99, for between one DVD and eight DVDs out a time.
However, there might be more changes afoot. Engadget is reporting that a "tipster" claims that Netflix is nearing a dramatic shakeup in plan structure. According to its tip, the company plans to charge customers $15.98 per month for its single-DVD-and-streaming plan, rather than the $9.99 per month it currently charges. The changeover, Engadget says, could come as early as tomorrow night.
For its part, Netflix confirmed to CNET that it's offering the new $7.99 plan, but it declined to comment on any other changes that might be coming to its plan structure. Even so, reports have continued to pop up from time to time claiming that Netflix is thinking seriously about changing its current plans.
In April, for instance, Netflix used its investor site to answer questions related to its current plans, acknowledging that it was thinking of ways to encourage multiple people in a home to have their own accounts, rather than a single household sharing an account that everyone uses.
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