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Netflix Co-CEO Confirms Plans for Cheaper Ad-Supported Netflix Tier
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Well, all their content was ripped when all these "+" services started to appear. In hindsight, Netflix dropped the ball by not focusing on content earlier.
It's hard to believe that a streaming service still charges tier pricing for the quality of the stream.
everyone keeps saying lackluster content…they just had the biggest streaming show in the world with Squid Game. They are very hit and miss but so is HBO. Half their shows I don’t make it past the first episode. Cancelled Disney because their streaming content was so weak. Let free Apple lapse because already saw Ted Lasso. Most shows on broadcast TV don’t make it past the first season. Thats the business.
my personal wish is getting 4K resolution in cheaper tiers. Asking extra money for better picture is like any hotel asked for having bed in room.
Can anyone point any other streaming service without 4K without paying extra?
Can anyone point any other streaming service without 4K without paying extra?
The coffee's worth more than Netflix.
Don't know why people got so unhappy with a cheaper option. Making previous service levels more expensive is the real bummer.
They’re “trying” from many years, and considering its not something hard to implement, seems they’re not so interesting in doing it. Get rid of account sharing means get rid of many customers...
Yeah, come to think of it... do you know how long it's been since they sent me a DVD from my list? 🤔
The content sucks for the most part. And when it doesn’t, they cancel the show after a season or two when it starts to get expensive. And they charge for 4K.
Putting in advertisers won’t help. We’re all running away from the cable model of mountains of crap content, nothing to watch, and ads we have to sit through.
Putting in advertisers won’t help. We’re all running away from the cable model of mountains of crap content, nothing to watch, and ads we have to sit through.
It doesn't really cost Netflix more money to serve 480p, 1080p, or 4K content since they have their Open Connect Appliances (OCAs) set up.
The different pricing tiers is just to get people to pay up for higher resolution content.
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Why Do Streaming Services Charge Extra for HD and 4K?
It's 2019. Why do so many streaming services charge extra for 1080p HD and 4K? Who's watching SD video?
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Premium streaming sites can’t use storage and web hosting as an excuse for selling SD and HD video at different prices. Maybe it just costs more for websites to deliver HD video to customers, so they offer SD video at a reduced price. That makes sense, right?
Of course not. Streaming services operate over Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Open Connect Appliances (OCAs), which significantly reduces the cost and difficulty of HD content delivery. These terms sound very abstract and dense, but they’re really quite simple.
Internet traffic is like regular traffic. If everybody tries to take one road, then they’re going to create a traffic jam and move very slowly. The same thing happens on websites. To combat this problem, streaming services build CDNs. A CDN is a dense, global network of servers that all contain the same content. They’re like different roads to the same destination. This way, Netflix doesn’t come to a standstill every time a new season of Stranger Things comes out.
OCAs are similar to CDNs, but they’re built to prevent traffic jams on the entire internet, rather than just a single website. Like OCAs, CDNs contain an extensive library of videos, and they’re spread around the globe. The big difference is that CDNs are operated by your internet service provider. When your entire neighborhood goes to watch the new season of Stranger Things, your ISP will redirect that internet traffic to a CDN, which keeps non-Stranger Things fans from experiencing any internet traffic jams.
Obviously, these CDNs and OCAs cost a lot of money to maintain. But they’re what you might call “internet infrastructure.” The investment’s already been made, so the cost of delivering HD content instead of SD content is negligible at best. Yet some premium streaming services still want to charge you different rates for SD and HD video, and they’re still behind the ball on 4K.
They already have ads. The mandatory pre roll stuff they force on us. Then the auto play stuff while you’re looking for something worth watching. I don’t want ads, I want a better interface and more sensible pricing.
Plenty of customers of streaming services offering ad-supported models seem to feel ad-supported versions are worth the discount. Obviously, it's not "right" for everybody but that's true for all products and services.
It's nice when the option is there and if someone decides ad-supported is no longer for them, it can be easy to switch to ad-free. The choice is theirs, including cancelling the service completely, and choice is a good thing.
If someone doesn’t think it is worth the price then they shouldn’t pay it. But to gripe about a service that costs 67 cents a day that you can use 24 hours a day if you wanted to seems petty.
That's not data. That's an anecdote. And it's not that Netflix is too expensive, but that their value proposition sucks. And clearly more and more subscribers are coming to that same conclusion based on Netflix recently losing subscribers for the first time.
That's just it. They're not customers. They should have implemented a "Family" plan with 5 accounts or something like YouTubeTV does. It costs more but allows you to share with others. If you just want a single stream then pay less.
I honestly don't understand the entitlement of people who think it's somehow their right to steal stuff. This is basic licensing agreement stuff. "Sharing" your password ... let's call it what it is. It's theft. If you don't like the service or content then cancel.
Single 4K stream wallet is ready Netflix is not....
It's also stealing on Netflix's part making indiviudals pay for 4 people to get 4K content.
Huh? They released House of Cards, the first Netflix original, almost a decade ago now. The problem is that most of their originals are lackluster these days while they charge more than anybody else.
One show can't be relied on to keep people coming back. Netflix should have kept momentum going with their shows, yet they started doing it until other services came online.
In other words, they became what they set out to kill.