They should have focused on quality instead. In the new era of streaming competition, you’ve got to have must-watch series. Netflix has long relied on its ubiquity and sheer volume of content, but that’s not enough anymore. I can count the top tier quality Netflix shows on two hands.
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Ad-Supported Netflix Tier Planned for Last Three Months of 2022, Crackdown on Account Sharing Coming
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They cant continue to raise prices and now are going to charge for sharing the account with family. If they really wanted to keep raising prices they need to give more content and there isn’t an increase in actual good content. I don’t see many people continuing with Netflix.
A few good shows, but they should’ve invested in themselves many years earlier to keep interest high but now it might be too late to turn it around.
Black Mirror
Love, Death & Robots
Squid Game
Arcane
Witcher
The terms are BS. There is no such thing as account sharing. People from my "household" can be in multiple locations at any given time and access Netlfix. That's how Netflix works.
To be fair, this aspect has a lot to do with the extra greediness of all broadcast/production companies. Notwithstanding, I would prefer Netflix go back to putting more revenue into licensing other/older content libraries in lieu of green lighting every script waved before them. I can count on one hand the number of current/recent/active Netflix Originals I feel are good.
I assume, probably. Although, a person can amass a legitimate collection, especially if they’re willing to wait and/or their tastes can allow for dollar/bargain/discount bin purchases.
Pioneers always fall because they clear the path to success for followers. To quote Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) “You read what others had done and you took the next step.”
Apple was fortunately revived with Jobs's return in 1997.
This. Piracy will never go away if it's easier and faster to download an entire season, dump it into a Plex server and just watch. Even having subs to all streaming services it's a headache just to figure out what is playing where.
Not to mention not every streaming platform is available in every country, and if it is, often the rights to some content were sold to a local streaming company (happens a lot in Malaysia where I live now).
Another "more legal" option is just to sign up for a month. I wanted to watch "Picard", waited for the entire season to be released, signed up with a disposable one-time virtual Revolut card (to make sure a renewal charge is impossible), watched the show, forgot the streaming service even existed. Still, the content creators are just making it harder, not easier. Occam's razor applies here in full force, many people will go for the easier solution.
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Does the Plex GUI have full screen fast forward, it is amazing that in just about every Youtube review of any streaming interface, almost nobody shows you how fast forward is implemented. And again, hey Netflix, why don't you focus on implementing full screen fast forward, make your product more user friendly and then maybe you can increase prices.
Snap I cancelled my Netflix account before the next price hike. I’m getting Disney plus & Amazon prime combined for what I was paying to NetflixI don't like Netflix anymore. Proudly cancelled my subscription long time ago.
The company has gotten greedy and they are charging for every little thing you can think of.
Apple TV+ for the win
Yes, you're in breach of the terms you agreed to and should get three accounts.
Netflix isn't selling family plans but Basic, Standard and Premium plans.
Agree. These are Netflix' own paying customers. It's always bad business decision to punish your own paying customers. Meanwhile in my country, there are countless Telegram groups posting pirated streaming shows on the day they are released. Someone in Netflix is not doing their due diligence. With other streaming services are trying their hardest to earn new subscriber, Netflix being hostile to their existing paying customers can backfire real bad.
For Apple at least, I suspect Apple doesn’t make too much noise over this as their services help sell more hardware. That and they have a fairly generous family plan (6 users) which is also quite a hassle for non family members to partake in.
Imagine a family of 4 is streaming content to an assortment of iPhones and iPads and Apple TVs over AirPods, it’s still money in Apple’s pocket at the end of the day.
Likewise, Disney+ has other revenue streams like merchandise and theme parks. Like your friend streams “the mandalorian”, becomes a Star Wars convert and proceeds to buy baby yoda plushies.
That’s the difference between a company like Apple with deep pockets and who can afford to keep subsidising their content indefinitely because they have other ways of monetising their user base, and a company like Netflix who is solely dependent on subscriber revenue to stay afloat. Netflix may have hits like squid games, but they aren’t making Netflix any extra money beyond possible additional subscribers (who may not even stay on beyond watching that one or two shows).
I think if Netflix are selling me a plan that can be watched on 4 different screens at the same time, they are aware family are watching it too. i dont think they think im watching 4 different programs myself at the same time.
what i can see is a lot more viewers will switch on and off netflix. at the price point of a year or two ago, im happy to subscribe all year even though some months i hardly watch. If it increases much more i can see me subscribing for a month, bingeing everything, switch it off for two or three months, then rejoin.
Appletv+ was like that before for me even though its cheap, but now they are producing at least one series worth watching every month or so, so im happy with the €5.
Ok so I have a kid at college. He comes home every week-end and in the holidays.
So he can use the plan at the week-end but I have to pay extra for him to use it 5 days a week?
Whilst in the week, only 2 of us are using it?
Stranger Things and then I'm out. Haven't been watching much Netflix the last few months anyways.
Single person household, want 4K content. No way I’m paying for that without sharing (with members of my family who are all on My t mobile plan mind you). Netflix will join the rotation of other services that get subscribed to for a month a year to binge.
Why sharing account is bad? Four users are four users. We pay for that. Why it matters where we are living?
So what, they will manage to read your IP no matter VPN or not?
If yes, it will suck. What about the people who are travelling and constantly changing their IP?
Just do a better service dudes. This stingy measures won't lead you to anywhere good.
So what, they will manage to read your IP no matter VPN or not?
If yes, it will suck. What about the people who are travelling and constantly changing their IP?
Just do a better service dudes. This stingy measures won't lead you to anywhere good.
Netflix should lower their prices. Account sharing restriction might be coming soon.
I was shocked that Disney+ started using a pin code on the Apple TV. Don't know how that helps stop people sharing their subscription.
Their biggest problem is that video media balkanized rather than consolidate behind a few vendors like music media.
The television and movie productions saw what happened to the music labels and had a much better battle plan to keep Apple and a few others from leveraging them and taking control of how their content is distributed on the internet.
Netflix will be a casualty to assuring production corporations that existed before the internet persist despite the delivery method change.
Yeah we bid them farewell after finishing Ozark and not willing to stomach the price hike vs quality content anymore. There are other better services out there.
The fact that you have to pay $15.99 to get HD content (not 4K mind you, just HD 720/1080p) is a real problem. $10/mo and you get crappy 480p? What's their ad-version going to stream at?
I get Netflix for free with T-Mobile, but I have to pay a difference to get UHD.
Now, their plan stinks, because there's only two people in the house, so why would I need the ability to watch on 4 devices at the same time? I'm paying for something I don't need.
It makes more sense for me to stop paying for the UHD upgrade and instead get Disney+.
Now, their plan stinks, because there's only two people in the house, so why would I need the ability to watch on 4 devices at the same time? I'm paying for something I don't need.
It makes more sense for me to stop paying for the UHD upgrade and instead get Disney+.
The wait this is going, it may be at 480i, so unless you have one of those old TVs that nobody wants, watching this content on a HD or UHD TV is going to look awful.
Netflix is ruining themselves. Instead of raising their prices, they should focus on getting more quality content to gain more subscribers. I guess that it's a circle: need money to get more content and raising prices may mean the most obvious way to make money. Ad revenue will also get them some money. Oh well...