Haha it just makes Amazon Prime all the more sweeter 
I think I’ll cancel my Netflix as it’s not really worth it for me currently.
I think I’ll cancel my Netflix as it’s not really worth it for me currently.
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So you wouldn't have an internet package without the streaming service?
no, i don’t really care about original content.
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hahaha! you know, that might just be where we end up with netflix in the next 2-3 years.
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value is great, but im still overpaying for something im not interested in. it’s like cable tv packages all over again...
Me too and that will be the downfall of Netflix and I can't wait. I though original content was going to just be a fad. A few adult shows here but when they kept removing more licensed content and raising the rates I knew the service would get worse.
I guess in 2019 when Disney is gone and CW leaves soon it will happen when Warner has there own streaming service NF will be all originals 90% for adults "not for the kiddies" with maybe 5% for the kiddies and no where near the quality of Disney and the other 5% foreign junk original. Also plenty of B bargain bin movies and TV licensed shows to go around.
I can live with that. at least i wouldn’t be paying for something i wouldn’t use!
Umm, yeah, if you actually need 250 channels, pay for them. No ****.
Most people with cable who are contemplating dropping cable already have and pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime, so those don't count in the "cable replacement" comparison. Likewise, YouTube Red does not include content which you have on cable; if you want that content, you are subscribing to that no matter what the state of your cable subscription is. And frankly there is absolutely no reason to have both DirecTVNow and Hulu. Personally, I see absolutely no draw to DirecTVNow/HuluTV/PlayStationVue/etc "skinny bundle" packages, but let's assume you are someone who finds value in those.
So, in your theoretical model we are comparing all of those services except Hulu, to Cable plus Netflix plus YouTube Red plus Amazon.
Net is, DirecTVNow replaces Cable in that package, at half the cost, saving a good $45 per month.
For our house, we went from Cable to Hulu and increased our single-season purchases of shows for the shows we wanted to watch, and went from a $90 cable bill in 2008 (note that the equivalent last time we priced it out was approximately $130/month) to about $30/month on entertainment. Netflix and Amazon came in, replacing much of the ad-hoc bought seasons (but not all of them), and our monthly video entertainment bill is on the order of $40, and I definitely feel we have more and better entertainment choices already paid for in that budget today than we ever ever had with cable. Even adding Amazon Prime in there is kind of cheating; we have it primarily for the shipping, not for the video service, and would absolutely have that even if we still had cable. Saving $90 per month ain't half bad either; pays for a LOT of vacations over the course of the year!
Also, all of that is ad-free, something we couldn't even get close to with our old cable bundle no matter how much we were willing to spend. My wife and I regularly travel and stay at hotels with "free cable TV"; the TV sometimes goes on as a novelty, but ten minutes later we end up turning it off, well reminded of how constraining the time-based cable TV programming schedule and overwhelming ads are.
Yes, we do have to live without five channels of sports we don't watch, and ten channels of bible thumpers, and thirty-seven music channels, and a big game shooting channel, etc. Again, though, the net quality of entertainment available to us went up dramatically when we dropped cable in 2008, and has only increased since then.
Well in the US we are losing stuff. No new Star Trek Discovery that is on CrapBS Some Access in glorious 540p with ads or $4 without ads still in craptastic 540p.
Those other shows you mention are on Amazon Prime in 1080p and 5.1.
Those other shows you mention are on Amazon Prime in 1080p and 5.1.
it's the principle of it. I was with Netflix for years, I was grandfathered and when they started to raise prices I decided to leave. I never watched their original programing that is not why I joined Netflix, and after the comments that Mr. Hastings made I will never go back to Netflix. Good luck to them.
Honestly that's what I'm paying for at the moment anyways. All the new TV I care about is on Netflix or broadcast networks, so that's all I pay for. And $11 a month is just fine for all my paid TV wants as far as I'm concerned.
Holy cow... you like, actually take these price hikes personally, don't you? I mean, you've already said you cancelled, meaning that nothing Netflix does is really going to impact you in a meaningful way, and yet you're still so personally invested. That's kinda wild.
As the article you linked to (or rather, the one it used as its source) says, the US saw about a 1% decline in the raw number of titles on Netflix, which is well within the expectation of statistical noise. In other words, it is losing as many titles as it is gaining.
In other countries where Netflix is building its presence, it is gaining far more titles than it is losing. That seems obvious and natural, doesn't it?
Again, though, in general, Netflix is adding as many titles as it is losing each month; some months it loses more, some months it gains more. The impression of the library shrinking is due to (1) shows that you in particular enjoy are leaving, and (2) you are not noticing the new titles coming in.
IMHO, I'd rather have a high rate of churn in content. After I've watched a show on Netflix I'm not going to come back a month later and want to watch it again. It might as well go away and be replaced by something I haven't seen. The downside is when you are in the middle of watching a long series and it "goes away" out from under you. That does suck, I agree. But just watch out for what is coming and going on your streaming services and you can pretty much always avoid that. Worst case scenario, watch the last couple episodes elsewhere.
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For me, our internet is built into the HOA fees of our house, and are never bundled with any TV service. But in the imaginary world where I was paying separately for internet without cable but would get it "free" with TV, the $90/month we save without cable buys a **** ton of internet service.
Again, though, aside from saving a lot of money each month, we have better entertainment, no ads at all, and more freedom about when to watch any of it.
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Haha it just makes Amazon Prime all the more sweeter
Yeah, 'cause Amazon would never ever raise the price of a Prime subscription from $80/year, right?
Oh.
But seriously, a huge benefit of Netflix/Hulu/etc over cable (not so much Amazon Prime, but whatever) is that you can totally cancel it in thirty seconds, then re-subscribe three months later with naught but another 30 second investment. If you are not seeing value with Netflix, cancel it!
(Note that this is easier said than done if you are dealing with a whole family watching shows, but if you are an individual or even a couple I don't see why you would have Netflix for a month where you are not actively watching multiple shows per week on it.)
I'm sorry but this isn't a good reason. Prices increase, that's the way everything works. Netflix has done a ton of original programming. It's asinine to insist that prices never be raised. Its a single dollar extra a month, and you have zero commercials.
I spend a WHOLE LOTTA time scrolling through Netflix offerings. Then I watch something on Plex.
No idea why there’s hate for their original content.
The crown
Stranger things
Narcos
House of cards
Orange is the black
Are all great and there’s only so many hours in the day.
I do miss sonethings from FOX but I don’t miss the huge bill every month. Plus we just get fox streaming for a couple of months a year for GOT.
The crown
Stranger things
Narcos
House of cards
Orange is the black
Are all great and there’s only so many hours in the day.
I do miss sonethings from FOX but I don’t miss the huge bill every month. Plus we just get fox streaming for a couple of months a year for GOT.
My costs haven’t gone up for a while? I pay for the year up front, it is a lot cheaper then Netflix and that’s before it’s latest rise..
And you can ditch Amazon and rejoin just the same as Netflix if you pay monthly.. no difference between the two, that’s a flawed argument where I am.
But with Prime I get the next day delivery including Sunday’s, I get online storage and photo storage and music streaming... as well as films and programmes.
yeah netflix keeping a backlog of some tv series i like to rewatch now and again between HBO seasons is the main reason i don’t just ditch them and do that in HULU. but hulu’s new UI is flaming garbage at the moment
Depending on the content it’s not necessarily a bad thing. If watching something on my phone or comedy / documentary who cares
For now - how long until it's *exactly* the same as the old cable prices and you still have to pay the cable bill!
Sense8 is already coming back
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for twice the outrage from cheap whiners who think everything should be free.
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i like the chsracters, but last season was terrible. Adding the stupid mytholgy and the multiple cells ruined it.
lol But we have 2 seasons of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn as well as Bella & The Bulldogs (both Nickelodeon), & the US doesn't. You're welcome.
Hmm... No more Last Man Standing, price goes up. Not enough of what I want to watch to keep it going. Goodbye Netflix.