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Netflix Again Raises Prices for All Plans, 4K Streaming Now $20 Per Month

jonnyb098 said:
Streaming can barely figure out 4k except apple. Once Apple gets even more movies and shows I think they’re gonna eat Netflix’s lunch in the next 5 years. Apple streaming quality is top notch….everything is 4K HDR at a decent nitrate too, its incredible to watch. They just need a bit more content and its getting there.

Add to that…theres still a massive issue on streaming of not even supporting surround sound. Less of a problem on netflix but a huge problem on Hulu and other network apps like ABC, CBS, etc. It’s pathetic in 2022.

With Apple its an automatic given that picture and sound quality is top notch compared to competitors (if you have the right equipment and care about such things of course).
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I agree with the technical side of apple streaming quality. However, the content side is absolute trash. The shows apple produces or Apple TV consists of are a pile of heaping dung. You can't even pay me to watch it; in fact I've had appletv free for nearly 2 years now and I don't even watch anything on there - if I did watch like that piece of garbage called Invasion I had to fast forward because I was falling asleep faster than my pet dog after eating all his snacks.

Netflix is getting expensive because they have no competition. AppleTv is garbage, prime video is full of "Hollywood video" titles, and the only other nerd infested streaming service in hot demand is disney+ (with their nerd marvel/Star Wars). Speaking of shows the only decent show is on showtime - DEXTER NEW BLOOD. it was great up until the last 5 minutes of the last episode..

If appleTV had something like game of thrones or breaking bad that would be great but no they invest in woke programming and cater to all these really stupid movies and shows.
 
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How many hours a week you watch TV people? I can barely keep up with Apple TV+ and it’s tiny collection of shows. And since it’s included in my Apple One subscription, I unsubscribed from Netflix and I don’t miss it.
 
4jasontv said:
With cable you have one maybe two ISPs, and chances are one of them if not both are also a TV provider.

Netflix was the first streaming platform and they haven’t updated their features since they bought geocities. Considering they also raised prices $2 last year I find myself paying $50 more to watch the same dancing hamsters.
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Would you prefer YouTube Premium for $11.99/month? Yes they have dancing hamsters. :p

 
Realityck said:
Would you prefer YouTube Premium for $11.99? Yes they have dancing hamsters. :p
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I also pay for YTP. There is a lot of great content. We watch YT while cooking, and I’ll pull up a video while playing a game. I get my money out of it. I hate YouTube music though. I’ll stick with Apple Music.
 
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Fine, Netflix.
Now can you spend that extra money to make the compression a little better?
I mean, 4K is completely useless if it looks like a 4K VHS.
 
A $1 hike... outrageous! :p

Um. Aaar. How is a $1 Netflix price hike related to Apple or Rumours other than the fact it'll stir up a bunch of fanboys who are like 'waaa non-Apple company streaming movies is EVIL... EEEVIL!!!' Sigh.
 
djgamble said:
A $1 hike... outrageous! :p

Um. Aaar. How is a $1 Netflix price hike related to Apple or Rumours other than the fact it'll stir up a bunch of fanboys who are like 'waaa non-Apple company streaming movies is EVIL... EEEVIL!!!' Sigh.
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It’s actually $2 hike ..no one is using SD
 
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$22.99 for the 4K plan in Australia. And I would argue they don’t really have that much 4K content. These guys hit $25 and I am gone. It is just not worth a monthly subscription for a good show every now and again. I can’t help but think we are paying the so called royals tax and overpriced movies that are not really that good.
 
Steeley said:
We’re in the midst of the pandemic, businesses are going under and people are uncertain about their financial futures. Way to read the room, Netflix.

And for what? Netflix has had its bones picked by every studio launching their own streaming service and we are left with Netflix Originals and crappy shows and movies from the throw out bin at Blockbuster.
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Even the shows Netflix calls originals are not really that.
 
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Wildkraut said:
Sadly my wife still watch Netflix, but it’s my fault, i brought it into our house, just like ClashOfClans. Meanwhile i don’t watch Netflix anymore, and I don’t play ClashOfClans anymore, but my wife and my kids still do. Heh

Okay here and there i watch a movie on Netflix, but I stopped watching series, it wastes too much of my life time.

Most series becomes endless crap, or gets cancelled anyway, i hate this.

Movies are starting to get on my nerves too, always the same crapy stories rewritten.
Trailer woohhh, movie boooo.

I should read more!
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+1 for reading more. I'm always telling my wife I could go the rest of my life without TV/streaming, but she's not a reader, so that probably won't happen ;)
 
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The idea of having a streaming service that isn't 4K is a joke. Most TVs made today are 4K, and some are 8K. The subscription price is now at a level where people think twice. I no longer subscribe to Netflix in perpetuity, only resubscribing when there’s a series I want to watch (most recently Witcher). The next time I’ll subscribe is when Stranger Things comes out.

Till then, I have Disney+, Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium and the occasional subscription to HBO Now.

Netflix’s pricing will mean more people start to take the same approach, but the bigger risk for them is that there’s now a higher bar to catch my attention with a new series (when the series I’m vested in are done, they’ll really struggle to get me to subscribe more often). The fact that muscle memory now sees me go straight to Disney+ by default doesn’t bode well for Netflix keeping my custom (their annual subscription model and massive catalogue of things I actually like puts Disney+ well ahead of Netflix for me).

At the end of the day, it’s Netflix’s business, so they can do what they like (till the shareholders are unhappy). I’ll simply spend less with them, which is my choice too.
 
Just in time for Ozark Season 4 to drop. Oh, and they split the season into two, so that we come back for Season 5 later in the year.

I'm a little stuck. We're a family of 4 with one kid in college, the other in high school. We pay for the standard Netflix, the annual Black Friday Hulu deal with ads ($1 a month), Prime, Disney, and Apple+. Ironically the only one of those services that we DON'T use several times a week is Prime, but I consider that to be "free" with the Prime shipping service, so it's not like we're going to drop it (Damn you Bezos!).

All told we are paying $43.16 monthly for streaming, with this price hike. Still cheaper than Cable, which we don't have, and we use my dad's Comcast login for other services like HBO, EPIX, and the network stations. But should that fringe benefit go away, we'd likely go back to a cable package at this point.

With this article I actually though about telling the kids Netflix is going away for a while. Except we are right in the middle of Seinfeld, which is our "watch one or two episodes during dinner" series, so we have a ways to go on that.

The big argument happening in my noggin is whether to renew Disney+ in March. Of course just this week Thing2 announced she hasn't seen most of the Marvel movies and just started with Iron Man yesterday.
 
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Netflix has its share of series and movies. Of course these will also come on regular TV channels, but cut with adds and I don't like that. For the time being it remains a good deal IMHO.

I have more an issue with DC that is sharing its universe over several streaming services (Sky/HBO, Prime, Netflix), making it difficult to follow their stories.
 
The minute they ad a dime on top of that 20 I am canceling it and go Native lol
 
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