For now, yes. I would gladly pay Netflix more, especially if they'd carry shows like Mythbusters (and don't think they won't, eventually). That $71, though, is a waste of money, because 95% of it is crap. We haven't had cable since Shark Week 2008 - that was the straw that broke us. Of an hour, twenty minutes were commercials, thirty-five minutes was reality-show crap asking the divers how they felt about swimming with scary sharks, and about five minutes were actual footage of sharks.

We cancelled cable shortly thereafter and haven't really missed it since. Netflix streaming, though - wow. I've caught up on Heroes, watched Avatar straight through (the cartoon one), and watched half a dozen movies in the last couple of weeks that even my video store doesn't bother to carry. There's simply no comparison. And it's worth far more than $8 to me. We regularly spend more money than that on video rentals, so Netflix streaming could easily charge us three or four times that.

I can only imagine it's a loss leader for the next couple of years or something.