As far as what's covered by the plans, I'm guessing it won't. I'm pretty sure T-Mobile will be willing to cover the $1 increase for "Basic" plans included with Magenta and Magenta MAX 1 line accounts, and the $1.50 increase for "Standard" plans included with Magenta MAX 2+ line accounts.
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Netflix Again Raises Prices for All Plans, 4K Streaming Now $20 Per Month
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As far as what's covered by the plans, I'm guessing it won't. I'm pretty sure T-Mobile will be willing to cover the $1 increase for "Basic" plans included with Magenta and Magenta MAX 1 line accounts, and the $1.50 increase for "Standard" plans included with Magenta MAX 2+ line accounts.
For many years it was common to pay over $100 a month for cable. Many large homes paying > $200. Now all these studios want to have their own service with each charging $5 - $20. Services like Paramount+ are pulling in subscribers because they have one or two 'good' shows. I think this will all come around to a handful of merged services that are around $20 a month. I don't think anyone wants to pay $10 a month for a couple shows long term. How many of us subscribe to services like HBO Max for a few months, only to cancel in the end. It's not the model we need or want.
Maybe, I’m the minority. I have Netflix through my TMobile plan, included. Prime vídeo due to Amazon Prime that I use for my shopping and 6 months free ATV because I bought a Mac. That’s enough. I get a lot of my entertainment through free YouTube.
ocasionally I rent a movie and live sports like NBA, I pirate through streaming.
DirecTV and cable companies are desperate for me to subscribe. No thanks, I’m good.
simplify your life.
ocasionally I rent a movie and live sports like NBA, I pirate through streaming.
DirecTV and cable companies are desperate for me to subscribe. No thanks, I’m good.
simplify your life.
What you are describing sounds like the long existing TV cable and satellite industry. Individual channels/content combined and distributed by mostly third party companies at various package rates. Each of the now hundreds of channels we have available today are essentially individual "streaming services" that have been packaged together and sold through Xfinity, Spectrum, DirecTV and others.
Now's the perfect time to subscribe, I can pay more for inspiring and groundbreaking content like Cuties and Big Mouth
Meh, I just finished the Witcher so I can disconnect. I usually binge on 1 or 2 shows over a month or 2, then disconnect for the rest of the year. No need to keep it year round. Same with Apple TV. Hulu and Disney are included in my Verizon plan so I get a lot of value there. I guess I just don't watch that much TV.
That's actually one of the reasons I typically only pay for 1 maybe 2 months out of the year for Netflix. Their programming is heavily padded with foreign stuff. Oh I've found a gem occasionally, but honestly I'd much rather not have to wade through all kinds of foreign programming to find something in English. It's made even worse that you have to drill down a couple of levels to even see if its subtitled. I don't think I'm asking for much to just have a non foreign movie homepage option (key word here being option), and no the secret codeword search isn't good enough.
As a company I think it's absolutely the right move for them to cater to a world wide audience, I just don't really need them to try and make me think they have more English content than they really have. Netflix, to me, is like TBS, 23 hours of filler junk and an occasional hour of really good content.
Poeple wanted a la carte via their cable provider instead of paying for 200 channels they don't watch. No one wanted a la carte like this.
Funny how it ends up almost the same.
Broadcast always bundled a couple of popular channels with dozens of drivel content channels. Its how the TV packages ended up with these 125+, 200+ channel packages that really don't offer much. Have to add that part they keep repeating the same content several times a month for people without DVR. Now for all the ills of Netflix, its content is actually superior to most of the premium TV channels you opt to pay more for beyond a basic package and those additional cost $15 apiece usually just HD content. The same could be said with several other streaming hosts.
So now you get to play the rotating chairs with streaming shows. You pay more for the better content providers, they all have rotating leasing of content, some have decent collections of their own branded content, but its really not that much different then broadcast, just better video quality because broadcast hasn't even moved into 4K yet, and far easier access and search.
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I canceled Netflix, then the next month got a charge. I had to call to get a refund, and have no idea how my account was reactivated. If I wasn’t paying attention to to my Bank charges, would have paid for it without knowin.
Some companies live on people who is not aware of their bills. They charge you to see if they can get away with murder. I try to keep my subscriptions to a minimal so its easy to keep track. Unfortunately we live in a society where honesty is hard to find.
I suspect most of those people don't have access to reliable Internet services or are older like my parents who have more disposable income than younger families, have poor internet (for some reason every senior I know has terrible Internet speeds but doesn't do anything about it), dislike the idea of multiple subscriptions (even if they're overall cheaper than a cable bundle) and don't completely understand the concept of streaming apps.
It's also just muscle memory. Some people are just comfortable with what they spent most of their lives doing. My parents have a DVR built into their cable package and do record all their own shows but they don't bother to skip the commercials and when I remind them that they can pause live TV or skip commercials, they always look amazed and then forget about it until the next time I visit and show them the same thing.
I don't think options like Spectrum are the answer. I have Spectrum and it has the thing that NOBODY wants....commercials. I ton of commercials. There has to be a commercial-free option.
Yes, there are a variety of reasons why people may choose to still subscribe to cable or satellite TV. My point was simply that the 75 to 80 million U.S. households that do, which represents up to 2/3rds or so of all households in the U.S., is still a significant portion.
I wasn't trying to suggest that Spectrum or any particular company was the answer, just that they and others like them have long had the role of combining and delivering content to customers at package rates.
Commercial-free could certainly be an option but it would come at a healthy premium as commercials subsidize a good chunk of the overall content costs.
I just feel Netflix doesn't have the bankroll, Disney, Paramount+, and others have(i.e. Studios). What those Studios have in Bankroll probably Dwarfs what Netflix has. And in Competing with those other Streaming services, they almost have to pay an extra premium for scripted shows and movies in a bidding war. Paying for Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, along with other burgeoning stars (Millie bobby Brown of Stranger things) isn't cheap especially if a series continues for several seasons. I think the Adam Sandler Contract was terrible for Netflix with the movies Sandler produced and acted in, but good for Sandler.
As far as cancelling series, it happens all the time on TV and other streamers. Get Over it. I mean half the time people scream that it should be cancelled anyways and the other half say it should be given another season.
As far as the Foreign material goes, I happen to enjoy some of those foreign series and films and some of them are quite good. So I keep Netflix for that. I think they have the best Foreign series/film selections of the streamers.
I think there may come a point where Netflix either merges with another streamer or gets bought by one of the other streamers. In all honesty I feel there is way too many streamers at this time.
As far as cancelling series, it happens all the time on TV and other streamers. Get Over it. I mean half the time people scream that it should be cancelled anyways and the other half say it should be given another season.
As far as the Foreign material goes, I happen to enjoy some of those foreign series and films and some of them are quite good. So I keep Netflix for that. I think they have the best Foreign series/film selections of the streamers.
I think there may come a point where Netflix either merges with another streamer or gets bought by one of the other streamers. In all honesty I feel there is way too many streamers at this time.