Netflix Launches 'Basic With Ads' Plan, But It Doesn't Currently Work on Apple TV

[NagasakiGG]

I don’t get it how people can be so dumb to go for that…also paying full price for Netflix. For about 5 years I am paying about 5 CHF (1:1 to USD) For Netflix UHD over Turkey. Just Google how 😉

 

[FyrStrike]

I think the issue is that ads don’t pay as much as the people here think. So it wouldn’t be financially viable to offer a free ad-supported tier.

Yes it would, they have to simply charge more to their advertisers. I’ve been advocating this for years.

Tier 1 - Free with Lots of ads
Tier 2 - Cheap with some ads
Tier 3 - No ads

 

[ackmondual]

Yes it would, they have to simply charge more to their advertisers. I’ve been advocating this for years.

Tier 1 - Free with Lots of ads
Tier 2 - Cheap with some ads
Tier 3 - No ads

CBS All Access used to sort of do this (before they become Paramount+). I used to watch on their site (CBS.com) without an account nor sub, for free (but episodes did expire). IIRC, it was roughly 8 minutes of commercials per 1-hour time slot of TV (so around 42 to 54 minutes of actual air time). I heard their $7/mo plan with limited commercials was indeed half the duration of commercials. Don't know if anybody does that anymore. Perhaps Peacock since they have 3 tiers? However, I think the only differences between their basic and Premium (middle one) tiers is Basic is free, limits the # of hours you can watch per year, and not all of the full content is available. They're both still the same amount of ads.

I think the issue is that ads don’t pay as much as the people here think. So it wouldn’t be financially viable to offer a free ad-supported tier.

It guess it depends on the streaming service (ss). For example, Hulu w-ads when it was only $1 per month (via Thanksgiving/black Friday promo) makes far more money than Hulu ad-free at $13 per month. To the dismay of Hulu users, this is why the latter is never discounted 🙁

You do have some "lesser" ss like Freevee and Peacock basic tier (the lowest one) that are free, and completely ad supported. YouTube has always been free (although I'm glad I was able to get in on a YouTube Premium family plan, as I could swear they doubled the amount of ads in recent weeks).

 

[compwiz1202]

Nice, now that it‘s out please go back to obscuriTy. lol celebrating 1 year without Netflix

11. Canned them when they split subs for discs and streaming

 

[compwiz1202]

CBS All Access used to sort of do this (before they become Paramount+). I used to watch on their site (CBS.com) without an account nor sub, for free (but episodes did expire). IIRC, it was roughly 8 minutes of commercials per 1-hour time slot of TV (so around 42 to 54 minutes of actual air time). I heard their $7/mo plan with limited commercials was indeed half the duration of commercials. Don't know if anybody does that anymore. Perhaps Peacock since they have 3 tiers? However, I think the only differences between their basic and Premium (middle one) tiers is Basic is free, limits the # of hours you can watch per year, and not all of the full content is available. They're both still the same amount of ads.

It guess it depends on the streaming service (ss). For example, Hulu w-ads when it was only $1 per month (via Thanksgiving/black Friday promo) makes far more money than Hulu ad-free at $13 per month. To the dismay of Hulu users, this is why the latter is never discounted 🙁

You do have some "lesser" ss like Freevee and Peacock basic tier (the lowest one) that are free, and completely ad supported. YouTube has always been free (although I'm glad I was able to get in on a YouTube Premium family plan, as I could swear they doubled the amount of ads in recent weeks).

Don't know if Peacock Plus vs Premium is just ads now still, but Paramount+ now locks some content to Premium like sports.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

720p should be illegal

 

[ackmondual]

720p should be illegal

Some may want that or 480p for their phones, or otherwise lower bandwidth/smaller data caps.

For me, my beef is with 64 GB base storage. That needs to be 128 GB these days, minimum.

 

[themuseboy]

When was this? There were commercials in 1974 when I first got it. Others have made this same statement and I researched and could never find a time when there were not commercials on Cable TV. We paid for it for a few more channels and better picture quality, not because of no commercials.

I first got cable in 1974 in Benton Harbor Michigan. It was in an apartment complex I lived in. I clearly remember the sales pitch of "No Commercials". It was brand new at the complex and I had just moved in.

 

[webkit]

I first got cable in 1974 in Benton Harbor Michigan. It was in an apartment complex I lived in. I clearly remember the sales pitch of "No Commercials". It was brand new at the complex and I had just moved in.

Besides premium movie channels like HBO, pay-per view channels, and local government information/access channels, do you recall what commercial-free channels were available on your system in 1974?