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

[cola79]

The irony is, Netflix got big with content from other creators and they were cheaper.
Now that the quality content is gone and they produce the same trash tv like old analogue tv channels with advertisements, their prices go higher and higher.

I saw that coming a couple of years ago and quit Netflix. I don't see them survive against Amazon, HBO and Disney.

 

[jdb8167]

So now Netflix is $20/yr for me. I don't know what everyone watches on Netflix that makes it worth keeping a 12 month subscription. For me, I wait until I have some free time and subscribe for one month. I watch everything that is interesting and then unsubscribe for the rest of the year. Right now I think the only interesting series is The Witcher season 2. There might be a few movies too: Passing, The Power of the Dog, and News of the World.

I just don't see enough high quality content to be worth $240/yr and I have no interest in less than 4K HDR playback that I get on other services for the normal price.

 

[Syk]

May be time for me to think about putting Netflix on a sub/unsub rotation
Bad enough you have to even pay extra for 4K when HBO and Disney give you that, more streaming at once and cheaper. Disney, ESPN+ and Hulu bundle still comes out cheaper and 4K
Heck HBOMax was even giving your movies for the first 30days they were in the theaters.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Man if broadcast TV could figure out 4k, I think everyone would just give up the 13 a la carte services and switch back.

I wouldn’t. Even with 4 services it’s still cheaper than $100+/month for mostly channels I don’t watch and couldn’t watch shows on demand. I don’t miss cable at all.

 

[winxmac]

Will prices in other countries also increase/get affected?

What I hate about these services, be it Netflix, AppleTV+, Spotify, Apple Music, is their region-locking of content... You are a paying subscriber, yet, your access is not the same as others in other countries... There are content they can only access and since you cannot access it [without going there or using VPN], it leads you to doing shady practices just to get access to the same content...

 

[Marshall73]

As soon as the price hike hits me in the UK Netflix is gone.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

As long as its under $10 a month, nutflix will remain my one subscription. Over that, and it's back to Jack Sparrow's Bay

 

[TechRunner]

they cancel their best original shows without giving them a chance to conclude properly.

Nailed it. This is one of our pet peeves with them.

 

[Dark enV]

If T-Mobile wasn’t paying the majority of my Netflix bill I would’ve dumped them years ago. Thankfully even with this price increase I will only be paying $5 to have the highest tiered plan but I’m with everyone. This is ridiculous. If the basic plan at least offered 1080p or higher this wouldn’t be as bad but you’re still charging $10 a month for 480p content???? Are you serious???? Disney+ is a better deal in every way by first being cheaper and 2nd by having 4K content and third by arguably having more content to watch. What a joke.

 

[sw1tcher]

I can't decide what's more outrageous—that Netflix is charging $20/month for 4K or that their Basic plan offers 480p in the year 2022. Who the hell can even watch that?!

Maybe it's for those who live in areas that still only get 1 to 3Mbps DSL because no high speed broaband provider wants to build out their service. ?‍♂️

(Yes, places like that still exist in the year 2022)

 

[AppleTO]

So their tiers continue to be a rip off... Even a single person has to purchase the most expensive tier just to get the resolution that matches their TV.

 

[TimB21]

Netflix has factored your cancelations into their price rise calculation.

 

[Kulfon]

Somehow, I am not using Netflix I 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

 

[Schnegg]

The tiers are a joke. If you care about quality there's no choice.

 

[TechRunner]

Netflix has factored your cancelations into their price rise calculation.

I'm sure they have. The world runs on algorithms, and I'm sure they have one developed for this

 

[Flight Plan]

Even with this price jump, I'm still saving money.

Before I cut the cord over 10 years ago, I was paying $70-$80/mo just for cable tv (no internet). With internet and Netflix and Hulu, I'm paying under $60/mo.

And I get to subscribe to Disney+, Amazon Prime, etc. for a month, binge, and cancel if I wanted to... and which I have. You can't do that with cable tv.


. . . . so I just checked Spectrum for current rates to compare . . . .

$44.99 for internet (discounted by $24/mo for 12 months for new subscribers)
$44.99 for tv (discounted by $32/mo for 12 months for new subscribers)
$17.99 for broadcast fee
$8.99 for HD box
$5.09 for taxes/misc fees

That's $122.05/mo, then it would jump to $178/mo after 12 month promo... just I can get them to extend promo price by threatening to cancel.

Ridiculous!

Subs are the devil's own spawn!

It can still be pretty cheap if you cycle through the services watching what you’re interested in and then unsubscribing and moving on to the next one.

Sheesh, tracking all that would just suck.

I dumped Netflix the last time they raised their rates. I don’t miss them.

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!

I remember when I could buy a Cola for 50c.

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.

 

[Syk]

Maybe it's for those who live in areas that still only get 1 to 3Mbps DSL because no high speed broaband provider wants to build out their service. ?‍♂️

(Yes, places like that still exist in the year 2022)

That's a simple fix. Use less bandwidth option in the app, allow you to pick 480,1080,4K

 

[sw1tcher]

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

$9.99 per movie is a best deal? ?

I buy used movies at the local thrift store ($1 each) or from Redbox sales (when they're $2.99 or less)

 

[SFjohn]

I remember when I could buy a Cola for 50c.

I remember when gas was 15 cents, an attendant came out to wash your widows, fill your tank, and give you a very large bottle of Coca Cola just for filling up at that station.

 

[kirk.vino]

Netflix has been getting ballooned with commercial garbage content. There’s rarely anything worthy to watch on it anymore. They have canceled most of their best shows and substituted them with cheaper middle-of-the-road stuff. People in the industry all know that Netflix is infamous for having many executive people who have nothing to do with creativity whatsoever. Those are mostly business-oriented people and it’s really getting more obvious by day.

 

[twistedpixel8]

Geeze, this is ridiculous.

The least Netflix can do is offer 4K across all tiers, differentiated only by # of simultaneous streams.

But then most people will be able to downgrade so they 100% won’t do that.

 

[UltimateSyn]

Uh huh…. That’s a LOT.

 

[OliOliOliOli]

Netflix is not worth $240 a year. The shows lately have all felt uninspired and algorithmic and then if a show is good it’s canceled too soon. I stopped Netflix almost 2 years ago and really don’t feel like I’m missing anything that compelling.

I feeling the same… more and more they just feed the beast then coming with great content.
I have the time and I watched all the things who the new said that movie or series have the 3 stars and sadly most of the things are not so good and now is more then 2 years that I don’t feel the need to buy something in blue ray or on an another support.

 

[LV426]

That's the key here. Netflix will lose 100,000 subscribers for price hikes like this. But the rest of the 200 million will stick with it and pay the extra $1.50.

Yup. I imagine the Netflix Marketing & Revenue department is a pretty large building, and they will have this well factored into their projections.

Who knows, the company might even turn a profit one day!

 

[polaris20]

Supply chain, guys. The streams are getting difficult to get, and until this stream shortage eases up, we'll have to pay more.