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Netflix’s Grandfathered Subscribers to See Monthly Price Increase From $8 to $10 for HD
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"In a world where cable companies are gone and online streaming [is] the last remaining, one man will stand up and say enough...is...enough."
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I will respond in regard to my part.
Netflix and any other company offering things on the Internet has to pay for the traffic their servers generate.
Here you have something for more "personal" purposes https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrade.xml but the same thing is still valid for big players, the amount of the traffic they are generating is important.
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I imagine that with the triple price there will be triple library. So I guess Netflix would be good because of its most universal library and not centered around one cable company.
Agreed. I paid the $11.99 for family Netflix back in the day - I guess it's called 4 screens + Ultra HD now (just checked)... but I did this so my mother in law in Peru could use our Netflix account. It's been working for awhile now.
I assume the family ... err... Ultra HD is going up by $2 too? There doesn't seem to be mention of the family plan raising up - just being converted to a premium plan.
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Yup, that's about right. As long as I have it, the poors aka rest of the world, should suffer in silence. That is the point I've been making all along. The crumbs of Netflix is all the rest of the world needs anyway. Why should you get to view the greatness of all 4 seasons of Hannah Montana? I mean, seriously. Do you honestly think you deserve to get the entire back catalog Pokemon XY, Yugioh, or That 70's Show? The answer is no. Netflix is screwing you because we are better than the rest of the world and we rightfully should get more than everyone else.
I've been holding that in for quite some time. Good to get it off my shoulders. 'Murica dammit.
/shoots gun
/drives away in pick up truck
/shoots gun in truck
/wrecks
/watches all the Netflix while waiting on AAA
Wow. 3 martini lunch can really make ya stupid huh?
How is that an issue, its the content providers who license their library to a specific region? VPN users are watching what is not licensed to their region. They are essentially stealing content.
Its not Netflix VPN the users should get upset at, it's the content providers. Why not share your concern of VPN blocking with them?
When Netflix started & expanded, there was the implied promise that they would fulfill the then-much-hailed "long tail", carrying practically everything (exception of perhaps latest & most premium). Then came the long, and still drawn-out, fights over who owned what and how much $$$ could be squeezed out of every title & subscriber. Not surprisingly, this means eventually prices must rise.
We live in the US of A, and the BBC blocks us from using a VPN to access its programming, despite my willingness, even eagerness, to pay for it. So I guess we're even.
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Well, the stock market has declined, but ... no, I just found enough spare change in my sofa cushions to pay for it.
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Sliding down a slippery slope much?
The argument is absurd. $9.99 is a fair value.
Are you spending $6 billion this year developing original content to entertain me?
If you have cable (I have FIOS), why get Hulu? What do they offer that you can't get with a cable sub and apps?
Just wondering since the only people I know with Hulu are cord cutters.
Because I have very basic cable. Some of the channels are not in my plan plus I can watch it wherever and whenever I want. I don't pay for a dvr machine neither. The only reason I have cable is because it was just $5 more a month than having internet+tel and I get family visits at my apt for a few months a year and they are not accustomed to using apps. I was w.out cable for 4 years and now I have it again since 1 year ago and frankly it just collects dust and only gets used when the family comes since they love watching "novelas".
Besides current tv shows, Hulu has a good selection of anime and the criterion collection movies and they have a lotttt of them and for me I'm a sucker and love me some classics once in a while, but don't care to own them physically.
From most used to less for me this past year:
Hulu plus no ads > Netflix > Amz video > cable
Thanks for the economics course, much appreciated. I do understand inflation, doesn't mean I like it. My salary rarely adjusts with inflation, so everything goes up and it squeezes my family of 5 budget. I work 2 jobs to keep all our fiscal plates spinning, and so I apologize for not being delighted with inflation and I hope I didn't ruin your day with my griping.
No, but I am adding the same value to the end user they did after the price increase.
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What customer friendly decision, please tell, has Netflix done to make you think that?
Increased costs might be necessitate higher prices, but higher prices suggest Netflix failed to account for cost of business. If a company wants customers to give them more they need to add value first. Dip into those profits. Go a year without an executive bonus. You gotta spend money to make money. Narf.
Seems like they are spending plenty of money improving the service and expansion content (with a good deal of original content as well). All while pec it's for existing users haven't been raised for quite a while.
So, out of curiosity, which video streaming service are you subscribed to that has an infinite number of movies? Because I want in on that.
I think they are trying their best by balancing with the cash they have and the prices of the movies. It's logical that if we want new blockbusters the film studios will probably sell it for more money than older movies.
Additonally, launch in 130 countries was probably also very expensive, and they are still getting their translations right.
I've previously lived and studied in the US and I loved it, so this is not a bashing of your country.
But it's clearly pointless to discuss netflix content with someone who has access to the best they have to offer.
Basically what you are saying is that the people who want equal access for paying even more money than you are whiners, and they should just shut up.
I don't even know why I bother, but I'm 100% certain if the roles were reversed, people in the US would be pissed as hell.
https://blog.unblock-us.com/how-many-titles-are-available-in-each-netflix-region/
You have 3 times the amount of titles available compared to my region, and even with the price increase, you pay less than us. But yeah, I shouldn't complain, after all it's just fair.
I was a former Netflix member till I went to Amazon. Currently in Amazon and will end membership soon...
That post was 100% sarcasm, only meant in jest. People don't actually think like that.
I guess we can chalk another one up to Poe's Law. There are plenty of things Europeans have more in abundance than we have in America. Sweet, sweet manual transmission cars for example. We're primarily stuck with garbage CVT's and automatics and the price differences can be far more than $2. We may more Netflix content but think about this. More doesn't mean better. We have more land mass than you. Unfortunately, that large land mass means we have places like Alabama and Mississippi. More does not always mean better. That last part about AL and MS; that was sarcasm as well. Mostly
They are suppose to improve the service and expand the content. They are a content delivery content. That isn't additional value. It's business as usual. Stream video games. Let me time shift my thoughts viewing interactions with friends.
I hope there is more than that. We can't agree that public education is important in the US, I think raising the rates in the US to fund other countries might be a hard sell.
Providing the same level of service that they did when you signed up at the price you signed up for is business as usual. Bringing in new content and even types of content that wasn't even there or even thought of when you signed up is certainly beyond what was offered at the price that it was offered at the time you signed up. Now, if they continued offering the same exact thing all the time, then that's one thing, but when it gets larger and better (in various senses of those words), well, that's not the same thing. Perhaps you might consider it as the same thing or would like to think of it as the same thing, but it's actually not.
I'm not a big fan of analogies as they aren't perfect and people will often latch onto the imperfections and not really see the bigger picture behind it all, but if you hire a cleaning service for your 2-bedroom apartment and pay them $40 each time they come to just sweep the floor and dust, and then you move to a 3-bedroom apartment that also has carpet floors that need to be vacuumed in addition to all that, would you seriously expect that cleaning service to do it all for that new apartment for the same exact $40? After all it's just the same cleaning and they are a cleaning company so it's not additional value since you still get the same thing in the end that you did before, just a clean apartment.
You're right, the analogy is bad. More accurately it would be if I had a 100 bedrooms and paid them to do two bedrooms a day and they started doing three. I'm not paying you more because they want to keep me from responding to the ads I get for a new cleaner.
I would consider paying them more if they started baking cookies as well.