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Netflix Raises Prices, Premium 4K Plan Now Costs $18 Per Month
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Wait. What? They cancelled MindHunter? Nooooo! :-(
They need to be real careful, my tolerance for this subscription is nearing a tipping point given previous rises. I have refrained from the VPN sign up trick, so far.
Maybe Netflix should not pay Eddie Murphy $70 million? Or maybe Netflix should not pay Dave Chappell $20 million per comedy special? Or maybe Netflix should not pay Adam Sandler $250 million for 4 films? Honestly, I have no beef with any of these celebrities, and more power to them to get paid. But when Netflix offers outrageous deals like this for content, someone is going to have to pay.
Amazon prime is junk.
90% of the shows on there you click on to watch, then a "Buy Now" or "Rent Now" with a $ figure appears. Not paying MORE money on top of my Prime Membership, to rent/buy a show/movie/tv episode. Sorry.
At least with Netflix, what you see, is what you get to watch for the fee you are paying.....
On the one hand, Iām glad Netflix is spending large sums of money on 4K HDR content. Technology drives content and content drives technology. That said, I wouldnāt mind if Netflix were just a bit choosier about the $150 million shows they greenlight. So many of them go unwatched. Like, spending $10 billion on content instead of $20 billion would probably yield the same practical outcome without having to continually gouge their customers.
I remember, years ago when I cut the cord, I was like, Cool, I wonāt be paying almost $200 a month (for DirecTV or whatever) anymore! These days Iām paying well over a hundred bucks for various streaming services. Iām not complaining per seāI do get value out of themābut having everything balkanized will result in long-term consumer fatigue. The current model may not be tenable.
I remember, years ago when I cut the cord, I was like, Cool, I wonāt be paying almost $200 a month (for DirecTV or whatever) anymore! These days Iām paying well over a hundred bucks for various streaming services. Iām not complaining per seāI do get value out of themābut having everything balkanized will result in long-term consumer fatigue. The current model may not be tenable.
With the increased competition over the past year and a half they should be lowering the price not raising it.
This will actual make me think about renewing, which sucks, I've had Netflix since I was on the 3 DVDs out at once plan.
Netflix needs to stop differentiating tiers with SD, HD, and UHD. It should only be differentiated by number of simultaneous streams. $18 just to get UHD in this modern age is just ridiculous. especially since Netflix's UHD is so much worse than competitors.
Jesus I thought the UK prices are steep Ā£11.99 no doubt they will up the prices to Ā£12.99 or Ā£13.99
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Their UI is way better than Amazon Prime, imagine Prime doesn't even have a "continue Watching". Well, Amazon's UI's are always the worst in every category, but some of the shows are great. I'm very curious though how any of these services manage to pay the content creators a fair price, or are they like Spotify and don't?
People still pay Adam Sandler? Is that for him to not be included?
I don't know about Prime, but the Netflix UI is pretty poor to say the least. I cannot even easily mark episodes as watched.
The last price increase was two years ago not one year ago, and where in the article does it state that Netflix raised prices to account for inflation?
If own a 4K TV and can't afford $2 a month then your time is probably not best spent watching TV anyway.
They definitely aren't raising the prices because of inflation. They are raising them because the market allows them too. Don't be surprised if over the next 12 months others follow suit.
Yes, subscribe today. Someone posted they are cancelling, and this would balance things out.
considering you can get 4K TVs for ~$300 now days....
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If T-mobile didn't pay a portion of it, and I didn't share my account with my parents and sisters' families, I'd cancel and just join for a month here or there. Price is getting a little ridiculous, and as a single person, it's absurd that I have to subscribe to the highest tier with 4 screens in order to get 4k. Hence the account sharing.
They account for account sharing. You should probably split the cost if you are worried, or you pay for say Netflix and someone else pays for HBO, etc.
Netflixās quality has been going downhill for a while now. They keep cancelling good shows and instead producing more and more garbage. These price hikes are completely groundless.
Just canceled that sh#t. I seem to only rewatch series over anyways.
I gave up Netflix years ago when their original content started looking like cut rate cable series. House of cards was impressive and the marvel shows, but most other āNetflixā shows looked like they could be on Fox with matching budgets.
I get it, it was easier to have 20-30 originals to please kids to seniors with smaller budgets than 1-5 solid HBO quality shows since avg consumers dgaf about that stuff. I know a show like house of cards wasnāt āfunā for younger viewers, thatās why they got 10 reasons why or whatever. Stranger things was chill, though.
I tried watching season one of umbrella academy and it was decent story wise but production was garbage. They spent most of their budget on Ellen page it would seem lol. Bly Manor is also decent but still coulda used some refinement esp if they want it to be a flagship.
HBO for ever.
I get it, it was easier to have 20-30 originals to please kids to seniors with smaller budgets than 1-5 solid HBO quality shows since avg consumers dgaf about that stuff. I know a show like house of cards wasnāt āfunā for younger viewers, thatās why they got 10 reasons why or whatever. Stranger things was chill, though.
I tried watching season one of umbrella academy and it was decent story wise but production was garbage. They spent most of their budget on Ellen page it would seem lol. Bly Manor is also decent but still coulda used some refinement esp if they want it to be a flagship.
HBO for ever.
I pay the difference for netflix, they share their cable credentials so I can log into apps to watch live sports
Didnāt they bleed a bunch of subscribers on their latest earnings report? I guess theyāre pricing that (and future cancellations) into this latest price hike. I cancelled about a year ago and am good with Prime since my savings on shipping costs basically makes it āfree.ā I donāt see how Netflix survives in the long long term.