Exactly. And let’s not forget you can “rotate” services — for example, there isn’t enough on Apple TV+ to justify us subscribing all year, so we just hop on for a month or two, then remove it and get something else and catch up on that one.
Every time Netflix raises prices this is the usual comment, then their subscriber numbers grow because they continuously acquire a wide variety of content to be developed or licensed for streaming by them. They also seem to be the largest international streaming provider of foreign language content. Remember back in Jan 2021 they Leased two production facilities in Korea? Squid game was theirs. They now seem to be getting a lot various asian productions on a regular basis, some dubbed, most subtitled. From Japan, Taiwan sources also. A lot of counties they stream to subscribers, demand local production content be included. Does HBO, Disney do that? Amazon? Even if a lot of their content appears so so they are marketing to the world which is pretty unique.
I think you're forgetting that Netflix is also a business who, like others, is probably also facing rising costs due to the pandemic? Nonetheless, with the trash content on Netflix over the last few years I agree that they shouldn't be charging customers for sub-par content.
I might not understand the morale of the story properly. It looked like finding 30 min a day for something important is always possible. But do you say that Netflix is a good thing and is worth find time for?
Things have changed. Netflix is churning out plenty of original content that costs billions to produce and that content currently justifies the current prices. I'm fine with it for now but there has the be a balance.
lol, the $10-$20 savings on Netflix that you don't actually subscribe to (so not actually a saving) won't make you Bud Fox.
Content production costs billions. They are actually making their own content rather than limited time licensing like they were doing previously. The main problem is that all the content owners have gone the route of creating their own sites, like Disney, ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal and are cutting a lot of deals to get back most of their content. Most of HBO is WB based, so heavily on movies, some deals with TMC/Criterion, some TV content. Most of their content is only HD. I know they have a 20% off discount right now, but normally they are ad supported $9.99 HD normally and $14.99 4K no ads normally. So I guess most feel that all the streamers should charge the same, but it really comes down to is there something on a particular streaming web site you need to watch, if so sign up for a month if the service is not your cup of tea.
Content production costs billions. They are actually making their own content rather than limited time licensing like they were doing previously. The main problem is that all the content owners have gone the route of creating their own sites, like Disney, ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal and are cutting a lot of deals to get back most of their content. Most of HBO is WB based, so heavily on movies, some deals with TMC/Criterion, some TV content. Most of their content is only HD. I know they have a 20% off discount right now, but normally they are ad supported $9.99 HD normally and $14.99 4K no ads normally. So I guess most feel that all the streamers should charge the same, but it really comes down to is there something on a particular streaming web site you need to watch, if so sign up for a month if the service is not your cup of tea.
Disney will be more of a contender when it can dissolve the Comcast ownership of Hulu here in the states and create that matured content section on Disney +. Hulu is indeed doomed some time in the next 2 years, because it only runs in USA and Japan, not internationally. (in UK its the Star content)
Once upon a time it was.... but if you never changed plans I believe you never lost the HD stream unless you canceled and came back.
So many streamers still don't even off 4K at all (Looking at you Hulu) or very limited. HBO Max is awful with that... and things dont stay in 4K. When Tennant was in theaters and on HBO max it was 4K, now it's just in HD.
