If you are a T-Mobile customer, look into moving your Netflix account to your T account. I did and am saving around $7 per month. Will be switching my ATV over in November.
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Netflix to Raise Ad-Free Subscription Prices Soon
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Is not having internet really an option at this point? I mean you’re posting here on the internet.
It's sickening that they brag about it isn't it? A bunch of children with underdeveloped consciences. Budding sociopaths that think the world owes them.
Your comment doesn't make clear that that $7.99 extra member charge is for adding people who don't live with you.
I'm still paying $19.99/mo for my three 4K tvs in one household (and it says it will work for 4 simultaneous viewers). And downloadable on 6 devices. We have 4 users in one household using Netflix for the $19.99 price.
The faux outrage on this forum. We like their content. Netflix will be fine in spite of the 10 cancellations.
No matter what they do, they're still going to be around. Growth capitalism is just straight up flawed. If your business model is to infilate your spreadsheet numbers for the end year presentations, that bubble is gonna burst.
They should have gone completely free model to display ads like youtube / channel4.
Increasing prices are straight up boomer mentality.
They should have gone completely free model to display ads like youtube / channel4.
Increasing prices are straight up boomer mentality.
Yo ho ho, a pirates life for me. Rrrrrrrrgh!!!! 🏴☠️ I'm just kidding. Between my friends and I, our Plex servers have enough content to last 7+ lifetimes. I'm good.
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Or it is the smart thing to do, so you don't pay $X for trash the remainder of the year. Nice try though!
What's crazy is that even after all the outrage, Netflix did their homework and realized people were all talk and actually added more subscribers than they lost and also made more profit than ever. So why not keep raising the price? People will never abandon Netflix or any subscription services on a mass level so every day we will cry on the Internet about increases but we'll keep on paying up. Netflix in particular has tons of garbage content that the brainless yokels will eat up. They have to have it, like a drug. Some of us have or will cancel and be fine but for everyone that does there will be 10 more people that sign up to take our place.
It won't be long before even a base sub with ads will be $20+ and people will line up in droves to pay. These companies know what they're doing.
It won't be long before even a base sub with ads will be $20+ and people will line up in droves to pay. These companies know what they're doing.
Na, I’m putting on my pirate patch. Before I canceled Netflix and Amazon prime I was paying almost $100 a month for streaming garbage.
It’s not worth it. When I set down to watch something and 70% of it is garbage I had to start doing some cutting. Just not worth it.
It’s just inflation adjustment. I don’t know why everyone freaks out. All the prices are going to rise. Wages rise. Everything rises during inflationary periods. It’s a drag and a terrible time to live but this is our reality right now. Netflix going up is not surprising.
Their content has been crap for quite some time. When they disabled password sharing, we cancelled our sub.
It really sucks how fragmented the tv streaming services are. Apple Music and Spotify are successful, because their music catalogs are more or less "complete". Hard to find music that's not included unless you venture into the obscure. No tv streaming service has an even remotely complete catalog. All the shows and movies are split up among Netflix, Prime, Apple TV, Paramount, Disney+, etc. If you add all those together to get a somewhat complete package, you're paying the same amount of money we used to for cable packages.
It really sucks how fragmented the tv streaming services are. Apple Music and Spotify are successful, because their music catalogs are more or less "complete". Hard to find music that's not included unless you venture into the obscure. No tv streaming service has an even remotely complete catalog. All the shows and movies are split up among Netflix, Prime, Apple TV, Paramount, Disney+, etc. If you add all those together to get a somewhat complete package, you're paying the same amount of money we used to for cable packages.
If the 4K amount goes up, I may have to think seriously about downgrading or cancelling. Streaming is officially becoming Cable 2.0.
A couple honest options:
1. Buy the disc, then download the ripped copy online. Saves you the effort of ripping the disc and the studio gets its money. This is particularly useful if you have kids that watch the same movie over and over. Emby is a free media server solution (spun off from Plex) and runs on numerous OSs, including BSD. Very stable.
2. Lots of 4K blurays at the local library. It’s the new Blockbuster Video. And after a few years they sell the discs for $1-2.
1. Buy the disc, then download the ripped copy online. Saves you the effort of ripping the disc and the studio gets its money. This is particularly useful if you have kids that watch the same movie over and over. Emby is a free media server solution (spun off from Plex) and runs on numerous OSs, including BSD. Very stable.
2. Lots of 4K blurays at the local library. It’s the new Blockbuster Video
. And after a few years they sell the discs for $1-2.People have been subscribing to all sorts of things for decades whether it be newspapers, magazines, cable/satellite TV, premium channels, etc. and the business model didn't collapse.
A subscription to HBO and the Disney Channel alone in the mid-1980s would've been the equivalent of around $65/month in today's dollars. For that money, you could subscribe to ad-free versions of Apple TV+, Disney+, Max, Netflix, Paramount+ and Showtime or even more services with ad-supported plans.
I am begrudgingly willing to pay as long as the quality holds up. If it doesn't, on the other hand,...
Yes, but most people already have internet service for other reasons so you can't really tie the internet cost to just streaming services. If someone didn't subscribe to any streaming services, they'd very likely still have internet anyway. If you're going to that level, you might as well add the cost of electricity, rent/mortgage, etc. However, just like internet service, they are needed for other reasons as well and people would be paying those costs with or without a streaming service.
Besides, premium channels also had "two costs." The cost of the premium channel and the cost of the cable/satellite TV plan needed in order to get the premium channel.
Reads like so much apologetics. If you genuinely can’t see the explosion of the subscription model I can’t help you. I do wonder how old you are though…