Going by my history in the account, I recieved a substantially higher number of movies given the plan I was using, compared to today. However, I am have known about this policy for a long time, and I fully expected it to be in effect eventually. The only time I found the throttling to be really bad was when I tried to go on an 8 at a time plan, and my number of movies would not increase over the number I recieved at 6 at a time, even though I was paying more.
Is it bad policy? IMO, yes. I would be okay with it if they would not advertise *unlimited* such as they do. They could charge me a per unit cost so that I could always get maximum processing speed, and I would find that satisfactory. The real problem is that I can't get more than 20-22 discs per month no matter what I do. It stays the same regardless if I am on the 6 or 8 at a time plan. This might seem excessive to some readers here, but realize that I do not really watch television. I try to throw in a DVD once per day for my 'television' time. Obviously, 20-22 discs per month is not fulfilling my requirements for 1 disc per day. I could use a 2nd service in addition, but I would highly prefer to use a single service, since it's eaiser to organize/set-up the movie queue and keep track of what I have seen. Note: I was getting 20 discs per month when I first joined and was using the 4 at a time plan on the 2nd month. I am now using 6 at a time to keep the discs per month equal to the service I recieved when I first joined.
-Chris
