I can live with entertaining product ads within reason, but not annoying one on every ad break or repeating. I seriously remember some vehicle ad that would repeat THREE times right in a row every cycle. That would make me NOT buy your product
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Netflix Launches 'Basic With Ads' Plan, But It Doesn't Currently Work on Apple TV
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The issue with some is they charge the same for ads as adfree and up the price of adfree, so they are replacing it
Good odds that every Ad will be a tracking Ad. Just like the Ad’s on here, MacRumors, are tracking Ad’s. A bit of good news here, Safari and Private Relay will prevent most from tracking. Every App, no such blocking. The same will happen on Apple TV. The scary part. The Ad tracking profile created will clearly define your at home cycles, when sleep starts, and the list goes on. The sad part, we not only allow it, but support it for the privilege of being entertained.
In a world where people pay $5 daily for Starbucks, I fail to see what audience is out there that would torture themselves with ads to save a measly $3 per month.
If there are ads and low resolution it should cost $3 max. This is a horrible deal.
That may happen but you can't necessarily blame ad-support plans as price increases have happened even when an ad-free option wasn't introduced.
Netflix, for example, has raised prices over the years and that was without introducing an ad-supported plan. Yet with the introduction of their basic ad-supported plan this month, they actually kept the basic ad-free plan price the same.
MacRumors forum posters whose money is infinitely valuable to them but their time is completely worthless.
You may be surprised. Ad-supported plans from other streaming services have proven to be quite popular. Granted, most of those have wider (than $3) price differences between ad-free and ad-supported.
Is saving $3 for a crappier experience really worth it?
Give me an ad supported plan to knock down the top tier from $20. I'll deal with an AD before a show. I dropped Netflix at the last price increase. You have to pay $20 to stream in 4K now, which is absurd. Netflix is probably the best service for 4K content with Atmos and Vision as all their stuff supports it.
Or give me a plan that doesn't have unlimited streams and downloads but has a 4K option. I'll join again binge and cancel, but $20 on top of other subscriptions was just too much.
Give me an ad supported plan to knock down the top tier from $20. I'll deal with an AD before a show. I dropped Netflix at the last price increase. You have to pay $20 to stream in 4K now, which is absurd. Netflix is probably the best service for 4K content with Atmos and Vision as all their stuff supports it.
Or give me a plan that doesn't have unlimited streams and downloads but has a 4K option. I'll join again binge and cancel, but $20 on top of other subscriptions was just too much.
When you have Hulu, HBO Max, Paramount+, Peacock, Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Discovery+, and a plethora of other subscription streaming services all of who have raised and will continue to raise prices, that gets to be more expensive than cable plus your internet cost.
If you did ad supported and had all the named above, you're pushing almost $20 a month in cost savings.
I personally rotate services and do some with and some without ads. Paramount only has a handful of shows I care about, so usually every late Spring I join for a month or two and binge the shows I watch, cancel and repeat.... except now it's free with Walmart+ (yet another sub).
Everyone is different. Hulu I'm good with ads... they still give me 4K streams.... same with Paramount.... Netflix gives you crappy 720P with their ADs and unless your TV is ancient or small, that sucks if you're not a mobile viewer.
Ad supported plans are selling well and brining in more money for most platforms. I'm just sick of being subscribed to freaking death for everything.
I’d do ads and only 1 ad before the show starts for their 4K tier if they’d substantially reduce the price from $20 to $10 for the ad tier. That actually makes sense, but to save $3 and be bombed with ads on a lesser quality tier? No thanks. As it is I’m being subsidized by T-mobile so I’m ok with paying for the 4K tier now. Netflix charging more just because its 4K is crazy.
I know plenty of people that canceled Netflix and got services like Pluto and Tubi that are ad-supported, offer on-demand movies and tv shows, and are FREE.
Not everyone cares about getting the freshest newest content, and a lot of people have Amazon Prime which includes plenty of new content.
So we have come full circle back to the cable tv days. Pay for ads. Lol, no.
Piracy is going to skyrocket over the next few years with streaming services basically being cable TV now
Piracy is going to skyrocket over the next few years with streaming services basically being cable TV now
I remember CATV in 1967. It was VHF only, channels 2-13. No Pay TV, which us cable guys later called Premium TV.
HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Cinemax and even the Disney Channel were premium services.
Our company, Storer Communications, was a part owner in a service called Spotlight.
That said, it is really stupid to launch something then figure out how to fix it.
I pay for a package with Xfinity that includes Turner Classic Movies at $10/month.
Commercial free but loaded with self promotions.
Just remember, ESPN is not Cable TV. It is owned by Disney, just like ABC.
According to The Motley Fool, ESPN costs cable customers at least $8/month.
People here who wonder who's going to get a service with ads to "save" $3/month are missing the point.
The point is that only one subscription - PREMIUM at $19.99/month - offers high-quality videos that match everybody's equipment, i.e. 4K.
Why would you want to pay for BASIC and STANDARD low-res movies?
I say unless you want 4K and are ready to shell out a huge amount of money (Netflix premium subscribers, you're paying for the rest of us!), it makes sense to pay only $6.99/month and thus save $13/month to access Netflix library of movies and shows. As to ads, we're used to that, and don't worry, it will be coming soon to the Basic and Standard tiers too before it makes its final appearance on the Premium plan. Just like cable before, just like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc... etc...
The point is that only one subscription - PREMIUM at $19.99/month - offers high-quality videos that match everybody's equipment, i.e. 4K.
Why would you want to pay for BASIC and STANDARD low-res movies?
I say unless you want 4K and are ready to shell out a huge amount of money (Netflix premium subscribers, you're paying for the rest of us!), it makes sense to pay only $6.99/month and thus save $13/month to access Netflix library of movies and shows. As to ads, we're used to that, and don't worry, it will be coming soon to the Basic and Standard tiers too before it makes its final appearance on the Premium plan. Just like cable before, just like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc... etc...
Bailed on them when they split subs for physical and streaming, but I agree about the 4K thing. Just have separate surcharges based on # of screens and quality.
Not exactly. There were no options to go ad-free with most cable TV channels while there are still ad-free options with Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Paramount+, etc. streaming services. These streaming services give subscribers the CHOICE of going ad-free or paying less to get ad-supported. A choice that largely wasn't and isn't available with cable TV.
I agree but wonder if they may be trying to avoid too many plan/pricing options. Ignoring the ad-supported plan which is only available on basic, there are currently three plan options. If you make supported devices (1, 2 or 4) and resolution (720p, 1080p or 4K) an option with each, the number of available plans jumps to nine.
If they offered ad-supported with each of these nine, the number of plan options would jump to 18. If they started offering annual subscriptions, the number of plan options would jump to 36. If they combined streaming with their DVD service (of which there are three plans), the number of plan options would jump to 108...
What if I told you, I‘m fine with paying creative people for their work, without resorting to thievery and stealing it?
