I switched to 4k plan last week and the price didn't change for me, I pay 13.99 for 4k and reg HD is 12.99 now. Guess I am grandfathered in? For how long I wonder
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Netflix Plans Latest Price Hike, Standard Plan Increasing From $11 to $13/Month
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This must be sarcasm because Amazon doesn't even come close to Netflix in any area except maybe price if you're a Prime member
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The article answers your question. Lots of useful info there if you read it.
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Did I miss where prices have been perpetually frozen for all products that are not sold by tech companies?
The article answers your question. Lots of useful info there if you read it.
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Sorry I must have missed it, 3 months damn, guess back to HD level.
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Sorry I must have missed it, 3 months damn, guess back to HD level.
Most people would eliminate Netflix last if they had to cut services, and cable would be #1 or close to it.
They're the king of content right now and their prices have always been reasonable to me considering what you get. I personally don't mind the hike but it hasn't been that long since the last one either, hopefully they won't get carried away.
You'd need to work only 4 hours to pay for the full 30 days of content access. Why's that bad?
Sure seems like Netflix is mismanaged. They got one steep (relatively speaking) price hike - with reduced services - years ago. Now another. I’ll bet if I stick around any longer, they’ll bump it up again.
Perhaps they should relocate HQ to a business friendly state - a state that isn’t bent on taxing anything and everything - and they could stand to lower prices and would likely gain many more customers.
Perhaps they should relocate HQ to a business friendly state - a state that isn’t bent on taxing anything and everything - and they could stand to lower prices and would likely gain many more customers.
Well this sucks. Might as well have cable again soon. If everyone is doing their own individual services it’s pointless
Other thing is if they need to make more money how about they make better content!? Hiking up the price is not the answer.
Other thing is if they need to make more money how about they make better content!? Hiking up the price is not the answer.
Death by 1000 cuts.
It's like old marketing comparing things to a pack of smokes, in theory especially at cigarettes hight in popularity it was a compelling idea till you thought for a sec, Then you realize not only did you not cut out the smoking to make it a savings but your now doing dozens of things that are that equivalent of that one or two packs each.
aka the opposite of savings nor affordable.
I wouldn’t say pointless, far from it imo.
Even if having a bunch of streaming services which when added up, was the same cost as a traditional cable subscription, there would be a bunch of reasons to stick with the streamers over cable.
But when since the equation for the millenial generation Onward has been piracy vs streaming or forgoing scripted tv for free content like YouTube your math doesn't add up because there's either never been a cable Backpage or at least not in years
I agree somehow. But I'm still amazed at the amount of content you're getting on demand for 10-15 bucks . Imagine if you had to rent every single movie or tv show episode you wanted to watch. Now that would be expensive.
It’s still a bargain and I can’t believe some of you guys are complaining about paying a couple bucks more! You have thousands of shows and movies at the top of your fingers for a low monthly fee.. it costs lots of money to create all this programming and with the demise of physical media the streaming money needs to increase so they can pay for it all.. simple really!
I guess this is a US thing only. But the streaming market is to US focused. I mean if more networks make their own services and remove content from Netflix, then the rest of the world will have less accessibility to content. Hence less subscribers. Already now Netflix doesn’t offer all the things to all countries.
The more their restrict the available content and make it inaccessible, the more piracy will rise.
It is simple, if there is no one providing the show, people won’t wait 1 or 2 years to see the said show. It becomes irrelevant.
So wven though the price hikes are reflected only in US, the endline will start to compromise the health of the streaming seevice.
The more their restrict the available content and make it inaccessible, the more piracy will rise.
It is simple, if there is no one providing the show, people won’t wait 1 or 2 years to see the said show. It becomes irrelevant.
So wven though the price hikes are reflected only in US, the endline will start to compromise the health of the streaming seevice.
You've eh...never had...a job of the poor? Have you?
I too would love everything in the world for pocket lint, but the real world doesn't work that way. I agree with the local crazy Ruski, @oneMadRssn.
I'm not sure what you mean...
I'm just stating that there is plenty of reasons to stick with streaming subscriptions over a traditional cable subscription, even if they are equal in price.
I never mentioned piracy nor free content.... just comparing the two choices mentioned in the post I replied to:
Very true. While there are some good shows it’s mostly filler content imo. HBO and Amazon is doing better content-wise.
Its not so much the price. But what you are getting for that price. Most months Netflix overloads me with movies i have seen millions of times. And have no desire to see again. Occasionally they get a surprise hit like birdbox. Those hits are too far and few in between in my opinion. Now there are certain times of year i may binge watch a show, like stranger things, black mirror etc. But outside of that. I personally don’t see the benefit of paying Netflix every month.
This is true....
I see it from both sides though, while $2 isn’t much, if one felt that Netflix wasn’t or barely worth the subscription fee prior to the increase, the $2 increase just gives them one more reason cancel.
Also, ppl are now mentally bundling their entertainment subscription expenses, and while a $2 increase is really negligible, when families have multiple streaming services, if each of them do a few small increase every few years, those small increases could equal an increase of several hundreds of dollars a year.
I personally suggest to anyone trying to cut their entertainment expenses to rotate their streaming services through out the year, sign up for a few months, then cancel and sign up again after a few months.
That would be the best way to access the most content while not spending as much.
This works only if people have specific series they want to see and know where and when they are streamed.
It can work that way, but I don’t understand why it would only work that way......
The trick is to increase things by $3 and then provide a 33% off ongoing "promotion". That way there's an increase, but people will feel they are saving some money because they are getting 33% off and don't have to pay the "full" price.