Netflix Increases Prices Again

HobeSoundDarryl said:
Pass the popcorn. This should be about the ninth time everyone is about to promise they are quitting Netflix. I don't know how to quit more than one time but many of us seem to know how to quit 9 or so times. Impressive! ;)
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Quit, re-enroll, repeat 8 more times. Sorry to spoil the magic for you.

But seriously, they’ll keep doing this until folks stop saying they’re cancelling and start actually cancelling.
 
I canceled Peacock and Paramount in December because I couldn’t justify the price. I’ll now add Netflix to the chopping block. It’s such a glut of mediocrity anyway, so I won’t miss it.
 
It is only a matter of time before the prices are increased again.This **** shop just can't get enough. I'm going to cancel my family subscription for good.
 
To be fair Netflix creates a lot more new content every year vs any other platform. Most of the other platforms like Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV and so forth have a few new shows/movies a year. Netflix creates dozens if not hundreds of new content a year.

They also create a very wide variety to attempt to appeal to many. Other platforms are more specific and users either like the content or they don't.

Because Paramount+ was fresh for awhile I started watching it more than Netflix but that dried up fast. AppleTV creates great content but it's much less frequent so we wait a long time between shows to watch.

What helps the other platforms is the weekly episode release. It helps those series spread out more. One of the main features that people love about Netflix, the binging, is what is also hurting the platform. It makes us all feel there is nothing to watch. When we do get a great new series we binge it in one day and then complain there is nothing to watch.

Because of this binging aspect nobody wants to get rid of Netflix has to produce 10x more new content vs every other platform. Sure it may be a lot of stuff some of us do not like but thats what a large platform has to do. Appeal to a wide range of users and tastes. Some people really do want to watch 500 true crime documentaries and nothing else. Strange but true. Some people love reality TV for some odd reason. Netflix gets ratings and viewers from that content so they keep making it. It also costs less to create vs a Stranger Things type of a show so naturally it's easier to make more of it. This is why network TV creates a lot of reality TV as well.

People want more new content and they want to binge it in one day. I'm not sure how Netflix can keep increasing that without increasing the cost. They could be a lot more selective like the other platforms and get rid of binging but that has its faults as well and those other platforms get old fast. I have Disney+ because I have a 7 year old, I love Star Wars and Marvel so it makes sense. My daughter likely watches 5% of the limited content they create however. She is their perfect target audience and still very little appeals to her.

I see a lot of the other platforms really struggling because of all of this. They have limited resources and can only produce so much. Paramount+ had potential but is limited and faces many of the same issues as Disney+. They try to create well made and expensive shows like Star Trek that just do not pull in subscribers like they hoped. This leaves them will little revenue to create other shows. A lot of their content like Disney is older material which is nice for those that like to watch older material. For those that can only enjoy something brand new they can be rough and require investing in three or four smaller platforms. By the time one does that they are paying a lot more than they pay for Netflix.

I'm not sure how Netflix should tackle this going forward. People asked for more new stuff and a larger variety and thats what they got. That costs money. I know it's a weird concept but getting more actually costs more. Of course the alternative is cancel Netflix and pay for three or four other platforms to get staggered occasional good content to watch if you are lucky.

Prime has potential but doesn't feel any better than the others. It looks like it has a ton of content on the surface but most of it is paid content. It feels larger but whats really there as part of the streaming service included in the price is not much better than Apple, Paramount or Disney.

On the plus side we have choices now which is also good.
 
A glut of mediocrity… I like that.

To be honest there is very little I watch on Netflix. I keep returning to Sandman, watch a little Ancient Apocalypse but for the rest it’s all junk. With the next price hike in my country I am gone.
 
I currently dont have netflix cause there isnt much i wanna see on it. I do have apple tv for shrinking, silo and severance. I also have amazon prime which comes with my prime membership. I cut cable a couple years ago. Just have internet and a regular tv antenna so i can watch local sports. But i also downloaded a lot of free tv apps to my iphone & ipad like Pluto tv etc. between that and free youtube i have an infinite number of shows/content to stream. I can watch them on my ipad or on my smart tv. And if there is ever a new show on hulu, disney or another streaming service that i really wanna watch, i can join that service for a month to watch it then quit.
 
smetvid said:
To be fair Netflix creates a lot more new content every year vs any other platform.
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To be fair, 90% of "content" they create nowadays is unwatchable, cringey, woke-propaganda garbage with high school play level of acting. I want to be entertained for my money, not lectured on proper pronoun usage by mediocre actors under mediocre direction.

Sadly, stands true for almost all of streaming services "original content".
 
And the added value for the price increase? Nothing. The reasoning will remain the same as 'cost of operation.'

When will Netflix start forcing ads in the standard tier? Thats my next guess for the future.
 
Still get Netflix free by having a login from a friend. Haven’t ever paid for it myself and aside from one or two shows, there’s nothing on there of interest to me — I scroll through a never ending list of dire ‘content’ of which nothing appeals. So I won’t be signing up myself, ever.
 
I ditched Netflix several years ago due to price hikes, in addition to shows leaving the service. I setup my own Plex server and have been pleased with the results. I
 
I get Netflix for free from T-Mobile. But if I had to pay for the service it would be gone in a heartbeat.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
Pass the popcorn. This should be about the ninth time everyone is about to promise they are quitting Netflix. I don't know how to quit more than one time but many of us seem to know how to quit 9 or so times. Impressive! ;)
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It’s bizarre you’re keeping track of everyone who says that.
 
Glad I cancelled our family subscription last time they increased their prices.

Did you know that second-hand books are now so undervalued that most get shredded? They just can't sell them. Pick up a good book for £1 and read that instead. Also looks good on the shelf afterwards.
 
To be honest, this thread made me have a look at how much I really watch Netflix, and it’s been maybe 20 hours a year for the past year and a half. Absolutely not worth it, so I cancelled.

I would get more out of ten high-quality movies or docu’s that I buy on the iTunes streaming service, to be honest.
 
smaffei said:
Pluto TV looks better and better every day.
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Load it (429 channels) into the incredible Channels app for AppleTV, along with free over-the-air (80 channels), the Samsung Plus free (401) channels, the Distro free (191) channels, and optionally cable(s 490 channels plus cable streaming 147 channels) too via cable card (which costs much less than the version where one rents a bunch of cable boxes) and that can be quite a rich traditional TV service for as little as $0/month to as much as whatever that version of cable costs where you live. Cable brings the live sports and a few desirable channels NOT available from he other options. Anyone not interested in the cable part could do without and take advantage of the rest for $0/month.

Though there are good numbers of duplicate channels across free streaming services and cable channels, my best estimate is I have towards 700+ unique channels that way. Yes, just like the old cable arguments, a fair number out of that 700 is junk channels I never watch... but the Channels app makes it easy to set up "Favorites" collections of channels I do watch. It loads with the short lists of favorites in the on-screen guide (organized in the order I want them) and I can also change to other guides or other favorites (like sports on now, movies on now, etc) with just a couple of clicks. Each person in a household could have 1+ of their own Favorite channel groupings.

I pay the $80/yr for Channels DVR to have whole-home DVR service too... with any amount of recorded content that I fully control and that doesn't have a timetable to be auto-deleted, etc. If internet goes down, all that DVR'd content is still accessible because it's stored here on my own hardware instead of off in some stranger's cloud.

Watch through any AppleTVs, any iDevices or on Mac at home or away.

This app is the most used app on the AppleTVs in our home... pretty much every day. And the popular streamers such as Netflix are not even a close second... the often overlooked Computers app owns #2 most-used app here.
 
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I canceled my Netflix subscription 4 or 5 months ago. Money was not really the issue, though with the increases and the little I was actually watching anything on Netflix is just made it easier to get rid of it. Honestly have not felt like I have missed anything since canceling. I have Prime and use Britbox and it provides all the TV watching I need.
 
I cancelled a while back and they send me emails showing me what I am missing. Trouble is, none of those shows look appealing to me. As for them creating new content, quite a few of what they claimed to be new , Netflix originals I had already seen on BBC or other free services. They just seem to be padding out their content with any old stuff they can get their hands on.
 
I really don’t miss Netflix at all after giving it up a few years back. Netflix certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on great content.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
Pass the popcorn. This should be about the ninth time everyone is about to promise they are quitting Netflix. I don't know how to quit more than one time but many of us seem to know how to quit 9 or so times. Impressive! ;)
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Not so much quitting as adding Netflix to the carousel ride of online streaming services. one month I'll subscribe to paramount+, the next, hbo etc. I have been subscribed to Netflix for as long as they streamed video but yeah, that's ending today. I'll re-up for a month when stranger things comes back and some other shows but the days of just being subscribed month after month are over.

I got an incredible deal on Disney + Hulu. $1.99 a month. of course that will end a year from now and they will go back on the carousel as well.
 
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