From my experience, Netflix is best consumed in a short binge (if anything seems semi-interesting) then canceled for the rest of the year.
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Netflix Testing Add-On Payment for People Who Share Accounts Outside Their Households
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People living in one dwelling unit, as has always been the meaning of household.
If Netflix cut back on the junk, they'd have more money to "invest in great new TV and films"
Hulu is the only service I know of that successfully prevents multiple streams at once. I wonder if it worked well for them. I previously was sharing another’s account, but did end up getting my own subscription when they implemented the restriction so that was a win for them.
I am also currently sharing another’s Netflix account; and don’t think I would bother signing up if I got kicked out. Maybe I would have used it more if it integrated with the Apple TV app like the rest do.
I am also currently sharing another’s Netflix account; and don’t think I would bother signing up if I got kicked out. Maybe I would have used it more if it integrated with the Apple TV app like the rest do.
I don't share my subscription and see this as yet another money grab.
Sure, but I think the question is will a Netflix subscription be tied to a single address or to a group of people who have legal residence at a specific address.
In other words - will you be able to watch Netflix outside of the house? If yes, how does Netflix plan to determine who lives in what house?
That's it, Netflix. Blame your customers for your inability to manage your own company. How you have any customers left at all after raising prices 4 times in 2 years is incomprehensible to me.
How about you stop dumping piles of money on garbage content?
I really don't think that's a question that needs to be answered.THIS! Go ahead Netflix, just try me.
Disney Plus is something like $100 a year, and they have a ton of stuff. But most of the things I subscribe to I got deals around the holidays. So we have a Hulu subscription that's $1.99 a month for 12 months. Have an AMC+ Subscription for about the same. There were lots of good deals like that at Christmas last year. Presumably they'll be more during sales.
Content is subjective, of course, but we just don't find ourselves watching Netflix that much anymore.
Apple allows family sharing with the TV I believe and you don't even need to be in the same country, as far as I know. Recently I've been liking Disney more, while finding less and less that I actually want to watch on Netflix. Some Netflix content is great, but they turn out a lot of very mediocre stuff. At least you have a choice, unlike the BBC in the UK with the licence fee.
Right. Which is why asking "how does Netflix plan to define household" is a completely valid question. That was sort of my point
I think he's hung up on the fact that his kid sometimes lives in the dorm and sometimes lives at home. He may now be paying for simultaneous streaming for the kid, but now he's going to have to pay for simultaneous streaming to cover the kid at home, and for second household to cover the time when the kid is in the dorm. So, is Netflix going to allow us to turn this on and off on a daily basis? Also, since Netflix doesn't include even minimal HD support in "Basic", you're paying for a bundle with simultaneous support that you can't use which you have to supplement with a seemingly redundant other service. I imagine these scenarios don't apply to you, which is why you don't seem to care. I don't mind paying for the services I actually use, if Netflix stops forced bundling of HD with simultaneous streaming, and allows us to manage and pay for the services we actually need. Fair is fair. Netflix has plenty of content, but 99% of it is junk; if Netflix wants to squeeze every nickel out of what people actually need, then I'll treat it like a premium service and turn it on for a couple of months binge every year. I've got other reasonably priced services to fill up my junk-watching quota, thanks.
The increases in price have correlated with a decrease in quality. When they had to watch the pennies, Netflix execs had to be much more discerning with what whey greenlit.
Also, NowTV in the UK has plans based on streaming quality. USA != the world.
Also, NowTV in the UK has plans based on streaming quality. USA != the world.
It's amazing how empowered they feel to raise prices, even as their stock erases all pandemic gains and competition keeps getting better. Time for another strategy, Netflix.
Netflix should be charging by device. In other words, you pay for a subscription and you can watch on 5 devices. Roku or smart tv, iphone, ipad, possibly 1-2 more tv's. If your away from home you can watch on iphone or ipad and stream to tv if your on vacation at a hotel for example. Thats it. Problem solved. If you hand out your log in to a bunch of people and run out of authorized devices, your SOL. Kick those devices off and tell your freeloading friends to get their own log in.
The need to wring more and more cash out of your product to show the shareholders some growth eventually consumes and destroys your business. The longer you last, the worse it gets until you’re stuck selling 5gal pickle jars at a loss, you’ve stripped every hardware feature you can off your computers, and you’re nickel & diming your existing users into leaving.
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Netflix are like every company with shareholders. They need to constantly be posting increasing profits year on year and the only real way to do that is to increase customers or charge the existing ones more. Vote with your wallets.
Their permanent address is home, Netflix is for home household (which included them since their permanent address is my home.). They have their AppleTVs in college and just bring them home on vacation.
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Actually a valid point. I take my Firestick to every hotel when I travel..All of a sudden at the hotel I can watch Netflix?
As a Netflix customer, you pay for a number of concurrent streams. Netflix manages this on the back end, making it impossible to circumvent.
So how can Netflix possibly need anything more than that? If I pay for 4 streams, and want 4 people from anywhere in the world to use them, that's my prerogative. That's my right as a user. Netflix cannot simply decide to charge someone more for the exact same service, based on some determination of theirs that it is "account sharing". All forms of multi-user usage is account sharing.
Netflix will be sued into oblivion over this.
So how can Netflix possibly need anything more than that? If I pay for 4 streams, and want 4 people from anywhere in the world to use them, that's my prerogative. That's my right as a user. Netflix cannot simply decide to charge someone more for the exact same service, based on some determination of theirs that it is "account sharing". All forms of multi-user usage is account sharing.
Netflix will be sued into oblivion over this.
... and what about when one household splits its time between home and a weekend cabin?
Or snowbirds?
Or retired folks with a home and an RV?
Or snowbirds?
Or retired folks with a home and an RV?
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I sense the reason for news like this, similar to Apple rumors, is that companies get to gauge public opinion and feedback to proposed changes without actually making them.