its sad that theyre the only hollywood studio thats growing/thriving instead of cutting costs and consolidating.
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Netflix Increases Prices Again
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Netflix is copying the Apple PR line, "We do X from time to time and generally don't comment on our plans."
I get it for free on T-Mobile. I honestly would not pay if it weren't included. Most of the content is crap anyway.
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I remember when Netflix came in the mail and the internet came screeching over the phone.
If you stand up and down in your sofa all day long, you don’t have to choose😅
Netflix is not worth paying for. If T-Mobile ever gets rid of the free subscription, I will not be paying for it going forward.
it was fine when it was the only service you had to subscribe to.
Now you have half a dozen services all raising their prices.
I’ve put all these services except for Apple TV+ on 3-6 month rotations. Makes no sense to have all of the services all of the time when all the content is on demand.
I haven't used Netflix since they shut down my wonderful disc-by-mail service. Now you just reminded me of how much I miss that. 😔
Exactly! These prices don’t matter too much if you let content batch up and then only subscribe for a month or so at a time.
$25/mo covers the electricity cost of a pretty nice media server, just sayin…
That's... actually a surprisingly accurate analogy.
I mean, technically it's true for any not-a-la-carte streaming service, but when you have something as big as Netflix with as broad of a range of programming as they do, it does start to feel more and more like you're paying for premium shows even if all you ever watch is the reality TV or true crime junk.
Thinking about it further, in this analogy, you have to subscribe to the expensive premium movie channels even if you're only watching HGTV. That is, in old-school cable land, you could get the basic cable channels for $X, you could get a hundred channels of expanded cable for $X+Y, and you could add HBO, Showtime, etc for $Z each if you actually cared about quality and didn't want to watch ads.
With AppleTV, it's kind of like you're subscribing to just HBO without any of the other stuff--you get a small collection of high-quality programming and a few other things, but none of the broad range or filler.
With Netflix, though, you're paying for the K-Dramas, and the high-budget anime, and a bunch of vintage network stuff, and some older movies, and a huge pile of crime dramas, documentaries, and stupid reality TV, AND a small handful of high-budget shows and some original movies. It's basic cable, extended cable, an HBO-equivalent, and a movie-centric channel like Cinemax. Which is fine, except you can't choose to pay for just the cheap segment of those you're actually interested in if you don't care about the expensive ones.
Granted, it's much cheaper than cable used to be, so economically it probably works out for the vast majority of people who now don't rent anything and also don't subscribe to cable, but I'm virtually certain neither of the two people in my family have watched a single one of the high-budget Netflix original shows in years.
I guess in one version of the world that only exists around the edges (special-purpose streaming services like Crunchyroll, HIDIVE, and Acorn), it's like a-la-carte cable that also never existed: You subscribe to each category of streaming service you want for a few dollars each, and nothing else. In the mainstream version, you pay whatever Netflix tells you to pay and you get a bucket of everything, probably at a discount.
My family already ditched Max and Disney+ due to price increases. We have Netflix because it's free with mobile carrier.
Honestly the best deal in streaming right now is Britbox. $9/mo, no ads, chock full of high quality content. It's fun as an American to watch British crime dramas.
Honestly the best deal in streaming right now is Britbox. $9/mo, no ads, chock full of high quality content. It's fun as an American to watch British crime dramas.
My wife and I cancelled about two years ago due to a price increase then and haven’t missed it at all. That’s literally the only way they’ll learn.
Physical media is the answer! Although it may be too late!
Of course not, it's not too late! Just keep buying discs. They'll keep producing them if people keep buying them. I don't do streaming and love my BluRay collection, so I keep growing it
Agreed. I set up my Plex server after I got tired of keeping track of all the exclusives and price raises, especially after every platform started cracking down on account sharing. The industry needs a iTunes moment that forces all the content to be in one place. Maybe I’ll reconsider if that ever happens.
In a perfect unified world if everyone boycotted Netflix (any large corporation for that matter) I’m certain the prices would remain the same or decrease. Corporate heads need their billions though and they know we are at their mercy.
Torrents are the answer 👍🏻
Torrents are the answer 👍🏻
Even better to rip the BlueRay discs and put it on your own media server so you don’t lose out on the convenience of streaming.Of course not, it's not too late! Just keep buying discs. They'll keep producing them if people keep buying them. I don't do streaming and love my BluRay collection, so I keep growing it
Only reason I still have Netflix is because my family watches it. 90% of the content is 💩.
As someone who cut the Netflix chain off a year ago, I’ll say you don’t even need torrents, just some skillful googling and a good ad blocker!
300 million subscribers and I ain't one. Good for y'all who have disposable income.
enshi*ification of what used to be a decent service.
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