About to sell off a large fraction of the Netflix stocks I own. Here's why: Netflix started this whole game before the rest of the copyright owners and content providers understood that everything would be moving to the internet period. Now they have been at the wrong end of a lot of distribution right deals. They have been forced to create their own content. Somehow Steve Jobs was able to get around all of this with iTunes and basically get all music every on that sales platform. Now Netflix is just like any other platfrom like HBO or Showtime. Disney will continue to run Marvel and Star Wars into the ground by producing as much cheap content as can be absorbed by the market. All video on demand providers can finance and produce their own shows and movies. It is an interesting business case that the rest of the industry caught up to Netflix, and the result is that Netflix now has to fully shift their business plan to compete with them. The disruptor became distrupted.
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Netflix Announces 'Basic With Ads' Plan Priced at $6.99 Per Month
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I would be OK with this, except like Hulu and everyone else that cheaper-for-now ad-supported tier price is going to creep up to $10 and ad-free will become a premium. Mark my words
The only ad-supported tier I am OK with is a free one. Even cable should have never had ads.
Just another excuse for the increased prices of top-tier plans...Soon Netflix will increase them again...but ''hey we have this much cheaper plan with a few ads...!''
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Netflix is being too greedy. It should be priced at $0.99. That's Basic!
OTA TV, which has been a thing since Babe Ruth was playing baseball, uses ads to pay the bills and doesn't charge the viewer a dime.
Netflix got this wrong.
Netflix got this wrong.
I just hope that the ads are placed in between scenes/acts. I hate it when a character is talking, and it goes to ads mid-sentence.
I have Paramount+ (Star Trek fan), and the basic plan with ads is $4.99. I don't really mind the ads, but it is a bummer you can't download shows for long plane rides. But, I get the reasons it works that way. We also have the premium Netflix account....~$20/month. I was thinking of dropping it anyway, so not sure if this new pricing will change my mind.
EXACTLY. Maybe $13.99 cause EVERY streaming service offers a cheap price and then BAM they’re wanting us to bend over the sink.
720p in 2022? LOL.
Netflix doesn't understand that a $9.99 4K 1 stream plan is really the sweet spot. I just want something that doesn't look like s*** on my OLED TV at a reasonable cost. I do not now or ever will I need more than a one at a time stream capacity.
$20+ after taxes for 4 streams with 4K as a bonus is ludicrous and why, combined with the absolutely poor content selection and terrible originals, I canceled Netflix.
Netflix doesn't understand that a $9.99 4K 1 stream plan is really the sweet spot. I just want something that doesn't look like s*** on my OLED TV at a reasonable cost. I do not now or ever will I need more than a one at a time stream capacity.
$20+ after taxes for 4 streams with 4K as a bonus is ludicrous and why, combined with the absolutely poor content selection and terrible originals, I canceled Netflix.
People that can’t afford more?
Im sure everyone on this forum (myself included) can afford the top 4K plan, but let’s not be locked in our bubble. Netflix is expensive. Lower the barrier to entry as much as possible.
Someone once told me a story about visiting a friend and their roommate was watching TV on their phone while a large 60" TV on the wall was unused. The roommate was uninterested in watching the content on the nice TV and seemed completely content with his phone.
I completely don't understand it, but different strokes I guess?
I don’t think they’re expecting anyone to actually pay for this. It’s just to make their more expensive and actually usable tiers seem cheaper.
Maybe 10 years ago 720P might’ve been something people would watch but in 2022 pretty much everyone’s TV is at least 1080P. The only TVs I know there are 720P are the cheapest 32” TVs you get at Walmart and even some of them are 1080P now.
Maybe 10 years ago 720P might’ve been something people would watch but in 2022 pretty much everyone’s TV is at least 1080P. The only TVs I know there are 720P are the cheapest 32” TVs you get at Walmart and even some of them are 1080P now.
Pay for ads? I'm not sure how well this will be received. Youtube has set the expectation that if you see ads, you don't have to pay. This could work with the TV generation who are used to paying with ads, but the younger generations are less likely to be interested.
If Netflix was full of high demand titles and best in class, then maybe they might be able to make a go at this tear. Now, media options are overflowing on the internet.
If Netflix was full of high demand titles and best in class, then maybe they might be able to make a go at this tear. Now, media options are overflowing on the internet.
£4.99 in UK, not bad.
But still, not sure I’ll bother. Ads are annoying, and between Amazon Prime (cheap-ish annual sub with other perks), Apple TV+ (cheaper than Netflix with generally better shows), and Disney+ (cheap sub through my phone provider), who needs Netflix?
But still, not sure I’ll bother. Ads are annoying, and between Amazon Prime (cheap-ish annual sub with other perks), Apple TV+ (cheaper than Netflix with generally better shows), and Disney+ (cheap sub through my phone provider), who needs Netflix?