Wish it wouldn’t go up. But still saving compared to my DirecTV Subscription I had + plus no more commercials. But damn. I’ve never seen direcTV pull all the discounts out of thin air when I was serious about canceling. Free Sunday ticket. Free hockey. Slashed the package price in half… still wasn’t a savings.
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Netflix Again Raises Prices for All Plans, 4K Streaming Now $20 Per Month
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So many costly streaming services to choose from now. Someone should aggregate them all in one bundle, give you one device and you can view it all together and charge you one flat fee. ?
Same, I canceled my TV and have more time for my family and friends
Still seems pretty reasonable. Netflix needs to create better quality content with less padding (streaming shows always have about 20% that can be cut). But I am still happily on board for the 4K streaming. Probably our most used service by far out of Prime and HBO which we get free.
They over pay on lots of shows. For Red Notice they paid the stars like $100 million then had CGI and sets that looks terrible. It’s amazing how much they pay for their blockbusters to still have the quality end up low. Some of them are costing the same price as a movie in the theaters but the quality is about 1/3. They don’t get enough bang for the buck for what they spend for lots of shows.
But $20 bucks is the cost of going to the theater for just me and my wife. So Netflix blockbusters may be substandard but they might be enough to get me to watch. Red Notice has problems but the stars have great chemistry. That’s fun to watch and saves me having to leave my house.
My country's economy sucks balls, but at least streaming services are cheap enough (Netflix being the most expensive, of course):
- Netflix USD 5
- Amazon Prime USD 1,70
- HBO Max USD 1
- Disney+ USD 1,70
- Star+ USD 2
I just opt in for a month if there is a must see movie/series and then set a reminder to cancel at the end of that month until there is a next time. Makes it cost effective and prioritizes things I kinda wanted to see in that month. Still much cheaper than the theater for a family of 4 for 1 show. Disney and Hulu are regular monthly subscriptions for us.
A $1 hike... outrageous!
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.
That's it in a nutshell. Some can't feel good about themselves unless they're ragging on some company or some person.
Being aggrieved and outraged at the drop of a hat is now the new normal.
I'm fine with the extra 5 or 7 cents per day because I like the service and content. That's mice nuts compared to far more serious price hikes like groceries and gas. And just about everything else.
Netflix lost a lot of its relevance after the big companies starting taking their IP’s back. The only series I ever watched was Punisher (only 2 seasons of course) so I’m basically left with documentaries, terrible Netflix movies and whatever other questionable stuff they make. Netflix is basically an indie company now trying to compete with the big boys and costs more than all of them. Quantity over quality for Netflix. Netflix customers should definitely evaluate their use case.
HBO Max, Peacock, and Disney can easily cover 90% of a family household.
HBO Max, Peacock, and Disney can easily cover 90% of a family household.
Yes, Capt.Obvious. I wasn’t going to list every frickin’ hit on every platform. ?
I dropped to the middle plan to save money, now they are catching up to that amount.
I do appreciate their documentaries, love a few shows, but I’m a bit disappointed.
I’m just glad they don’t play ads like cable!
I do appreciate their documentaries, love a few shows, but I’m a bit disappointed.
I’m just glad they don’t play ads like cable!
Oh don't worry, even 'basic' cable doesn't come in HD (read: 1080p... forget about even 4K) in 2022! In the United States!
LOL, like THAT ever happens! 🤭
Yep. I know a recording artist who taught music as a side-gig. He would make his students and their parents sign an agreement: No Television on Weeknights/School Nights.Somehow, I am not using NetflixI am struggling to find time to watch something as there are so many important things to do and achieve in life. But I understand how some might be addicted
That was before smartphones, so I'll bet today he has added to that requirement, but his point was that people would complain that they don't have time to practice their instrument, and kids would be really good at saying they don't have time to practice.
He would call BS on that and say that EVERYBODY has 15-30 minutes or more to practice their instrument weeknights, at least. Unless you're spending 3 hours watching television. Or, I would add, messing around with social media, playing online games, and more.
"Than". And yes, if you have a lot of individual services, that may be true. That's why I limit myself to Prime (free) and purchased media for my own use. Adding more and more services just provides more temptation for me to sit and vegetate.
That's how I left DirecTV.
Yep, that's great advice, "go enjoy something else for a few months". All this content will be here for you when you come back, even if it's 5 years later. Or 10.
No subscriptions here. ? I invest the saved money in stocks like Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet C, Adobe, Accenture PLC, Abbott Labs and so on. Saves a lot of time & money.
I mean. It's $2. And they just raised it $2. That makes it a 20% price hike.A $1 hike... outrageous!
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.
That's also true for old television shows on big flatscreens made a decade ago. I've been binge watching Miami Vice and Airwolf in 480p on my 12 year old 52" Visio screen and hearing them on my 22 year old home theater system, and they look just fine and sound even better than they ever did on my college roommate's 13" Toshiba, lol.
And when something is in 1080P, I can see a lot more detail than ever. Over the weekend, I watched a James Bond movie, and saw that Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn were truly gorgeous in 1983. I also saw the elephant riders would kick the back of the elephants' ears very rapidly to make the elephant walk forward. Never ever saw THAT detail even in the movie theatre, but there it is on my screen as the movie unspools from my NAS over my WIFI to said Visio screen.
480, 720, and 1080 are just great for what I need. I fear that 4K will just reveal at a molecular level the structural underpinnings of the universe, and will shatter my happy movie-watching bliss, like seeing for the first time that the bridge of Kirk's and Picard's versions of the USS Enterprise were really made with 2X4s, construction plywood, #10 nails, and gallons of paint. And on Kirk's ship, that paint probably had lead in it! Forgive me; I'm still trying to get over that revelation. It took me a while to accept the fact that the Easter Bunny uses a toilet.
Those pro tips are indeed pro tips. I have 8TB attached to my Plex server. I also have 2 separate 8TB drives that are backups of the primary 8TB drive. Because you are correct, in the case of a problem that is a lot of re-ripping that will need to be done. (nearly 2000 full length films and over 4000 TV episodes)Subs are the devil's own spawn!
Sheesh, tracking all that would just suck.
I avoided Netflix the last time they raised their rates and with this latest announcement, I'm re-avoiding them. I don't know what I'm missing!
Price or not, calling it a "cola" is dating yourself. ?
Seriously though, I'm four colors of allergic to subscriptions. When I dumped DirecTV, I was paying $150 per month. When I dropped DirecTV, I also dropped my ATT ISP and land line phone, which I was probably paying another $50 or more for.
Now I have Prime, ATT Fiber (ISP only), Ooma (VOIP home phone) and Emby. Prime is annual what, $130? The Fiber is $60 or so per month, the Ooma is $4.00 per month, and Emby is free and works much better for movies than Plex ever did. I might buy 3 things each year on Prime. For everything else, I shop the cheapo bins at Walmart and Best Buy, and for TV shows, I'll shop on Amazon and buy the discs.
The best deals are $9.99 for a movie; better if it has a Movies Anywhere "code" in the package. Once I register the code, then that movie actually just shows up in my Prime list. As I said above, Emby is free and runs on my NAS with a client app installed on my Amazon TV. Very few problems. Just download the trial app for Emby, and use it until it expires. That's when you'll be presented with an offer to buy the subscription. Just decline it, and you'll get to use the "basic" Emby features, which for me is mostly being able to watch TV shows and movies from my NAS.
BTW, I find that 4K is usually not worth the price premium. 1024p is a fine movie-enjoying resolution. Older movies might only be in 720 or 480, but even those are usually better than they originally appeared on the old black-and-white in the basement or the color Magnavox we had in the living room when I was a kid.
Also important: Most movies these days have good to excellent sound, which matters more to me than the resolution it's in.
Pro Tip: Don't let expired codes stop you from buying from the $1.99 to 5.99 bins! Those codes often work months after they've expired, and maybe even longer! Then you don't even need to rip the movie, you just go find it in your Prime Movies app, or whatever that's called. I usually rip them anyway, because having them stored on disk, whether local or NAS, even if the resolution was downsampled, is a nice way to have an alternate copy plus some entertainment options available if I find myself without internet.
Pro Tip #2: Don't skimp on hard drive space. I don't build a computer anymore if it has less than 8TB of capacity. But you hardly need more than a half-terabyte to store several HUNDRED movies in 1080P.
Pro Tip #3: Don't skimp on backup drives either! Whether your TV and movie media are on local disk or NAS, you should be backing them up once in awhile so that you don't have to re-rip hundreds of movies after a fire, flood, or theft.
Pro Tip #4: Rip only the movie. Let the "extras" just live on the DVD. You might watch the extra features one time only, but you'll rewatch the movie many times.
All of my DVDs are in binders. I've ditched the cases for most except for collector edition cases and tins, or unusual packaging like my Caesar bust for the Planet of the Apes collection.
I'm curious about Emby and am going to give it a look.