Now that's the kind of God I like!
Samuri and others, I wonder why you're staying with Netflix, especially after this crap. I was a NF user years ago, before BB online was in business. The movie service was awful. I know there's some fanboyness between BB and NF, but my complaints are very real (and somewhat related to this). Besides the throttling (which BB doesn't do to me, but anyway), they only carried ONE edition of each movie PURPOSELY, so for example, at the time you could only get the regular release of the Lord of the Rings movies, not the extended editions.
I asked them about this, and they told me it's the way they roll. They knew it, and they didn't want to do a damn thing about it. They also didn't carry the supplemental discs of 2-disc sets. This was one of the main reasons I switched to BB right when they went on business, I mean I didn't particularly like BB, but it did offer any amount of different editions available.
Just a couple of months ago, because BB had a second price raise in a very short time and I had a kind of irrational impulse to cancel BB (the raise wasn't that bad considering NF's prices), I tried NF again, to see if they've improved any. The answer was not much, if at all, considering how BB has improved in the years since. They still don't carry several editions for many titles, only the more popular ones (like LOTR). I think this move of going only blu-ray is the same kind of crap they pulled before with different editions of movies. They won't care unless they lose a certain amount of customers. I am much more glad I canceled the trial now. I only wish I'd done the trial a few weeks later, so I could cancel just after they made this announcement, and tell them it's because of this crappy behavior.
Blockbuster carries the same titles, and gives you more options. You can still rent HD-DVDs from them, and I am hopeful they wouldn't announce the death of HD-DVD until it actually died. Other obvious benefits are much better turnaround times (return them at your local BB and the next movie ships - true, it doesn't work like that all the time, but still gives you one day advantage since by mail, two-day turnaround is also not guaranteed), and a number of store exchanges per month (I get my bluray that way).