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You can always pay 9.99 or whatever the price and cancel after one month. Still cheaper than movies.

by tehlike 10y ago

cosmeen 10y ago
You forgot that the first month is free :)
kayoone 10y ago
Yes, but general public doesn't know this and Netflix is not going around advertising this with high priority. Getting/Cancelling the subscription on a per movie basis is not the intended use of Netflix anyway, so it's gaming the system and netflix allows it.
- cheeze 10y ago
  The general public doesn't realize they can sign up for a month long subscription of something and cancel it? Are you serious? How is that gaming the system at all?
  - LoSboccacc 10y ago
    Psychology 101: People sign up for just a month. Don't cancel immediately after watching the movie they want, because they want to use the paid month in full. After two/three weeks the brain phases out the expiration date and the subscription renews. "But reminders!" the reader would complain so let me preempt that: not many person actually set reminders for this kind of stuff - part because 'it's only a month' part because not everyone is as phone dependent as techhies and mbas types. For internet and social? Sure. For reminding every little detail in life? Hardly. Especially since outside apple setting a reminder is still a subpar experience.
    - callumlocke 10y ago
      To be fair, you can cancel Netflix and then continue using it until the end of your current subscription period. I would have thought it would be illegal to withdraw the service early as punishment for cancelling.
      - draugadrotten 10y ago
        Netflix seems to try to provide a good enough service so that customers want to extend the subscription, rather than relying on customers forgetting to cancel. Very irrational of them as we all know capitalists try to scam everyone first chance they get.
    - deleted 10y ago
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    - shaftoe 10y ago
      These are truly first world problems.
      - tehlike 10y ago
        France is first world, isn't it?
carlob 10y ago
Not so sure it's cheaper in France. There are many ways to go to the movies for much less than that. There is some kind of subscription that's very popular in Paris that lets you go to any movie in about half of the theaters (including independents) for a monthly fee, and a few times a year there are weekends when the movies are 2-3 euros a pop. Thus said watching a movie on a laptop screen in your apartment is hardly the same as going to a proper cinema.
- arkh 10y ago
  But going to a "proper cinema" is a lot less enjoyable than using your own 4k screen with good audio, comfy seating, homemade snacks, no other audience, choice of language and subtitles and the possibility to pause it if needed. Let's not forget the choice of the exact time you watch it and you don't have to get dressed too.
  - kagamine 10y ago
    A fast PC, a 4K screen, a nice home, paid streaming service subscription, paid ISP subscription and snacks. I believe France to be a bit more socialist (in the same way as Scandinavia is) than some other countries and it's possible also that the 'draconian laws' as YC comments insist on calling them, are there to level the playing field for all?
  - douche 10y ago
    Plus you can make your own popcorn for $0.35, instead of getting juiced $12.00 for a bowl-full.
  - xg15 10y ago
    So we don't need cinemas anymore because instead of $11 for a cinema everyone could pay $10000 for a home cinema system and get the same experience. Makes sense...
kagamine 10y ago
With the added costs of owning a PC good enough to stream and being on a paid for network good enough to stream, which might not be available in a lot of the French countryside where a bicycle ride or a short trip on public transport is more affordable. The cost is far greater than 9.99. Not to mention that French cinema sees itself as 'art' and a laptop screen can't do the director justice.
- petra 10y ago
  Netflix, in some countries has an option to download movies. And most PC's are good enough for 1080p.
- wikibob 10y ago
  This doesn't make sense. A Chromecast is 35€. A 7 year old laptop is perfectly capable of streaming and a HDMI cable to plug your laptop into your existing tv is 10€.
infinita740 10y ago
11.99€ for the "UHD/4k" subscription, my local cinema costs 7.80€. I agree it is still reasonable but I feel that a limited release would be better as a subscription for a single film is pretty dumb IMO.

You can always pay 9.99 or whatever the price and cancel after one month. Still cheaper than movies.

by tehlike 10y ago

You can always pay 9.99 or whatever the price and cancel after one month. Still cheaper than movies.

cosmeen 10y ago

You forgot that the first month is free :)

kayoone 10y ago

Yes, but general public doesn't know this and Netflix is not going around advertising this with high priority. Getting/Cancelling the subscription on a per movie basis is not the intended use of Netflix anyway, so it's gaming the system and netflix allows it.

cheeze 10y ago
The general public doesn't realize they can sign up for a month long subscription of something and cancel it? Are you serious? How is that gaming the system at all?
- LoSboccacc 10y ago
  Psychology 101: People sign up for just a month. Don't cancel immediately after watching the movie they want, because they want to use the paid month in full. After two/three weeks the brain phases out the expiration date and the subscription renews. "But reminders!" the reader would complain so let me preempt that: not many person actually set reminders for this kind of stuff - part because 'it's only a month' part because not everyone is as phone dependent as techhies and mbas types. For internet and social? Sure. For reminding every little detail in life? Hardly. Especially since outside apple setting a reminder is still a subpar experience.
  - callumlocke 10y ago
    To be fair, you can cancel Netflix and then continue using it until the end of your current subscription period. I would have thought it would be illegal to withdraw the service early as punishment for cancelling.
    - draugadrotten 10y ago
      Netflix seems to try to provide a good enough service so that customers want to extend the subscription, rather than relying on customers forgetting to cancel. Very irrational of them as we all know capitalists try to scam everyone first chance they get.
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  - shaftoe 10y ago
    These are truly first world problems.
    - tehlike 10y ago
      France is first world, isn't it?

carlob 10y ago

Not so sure it's cheaper in France. There are many ways to go to the movies for much less than that. There is some kind of subscription that's very popular in Paris that lets you go to any movie in about half of the theaters (including independents) for a monthly fee, and a few times a year there are weekends when the movies are 2-3 euros a pop. Thus said watching a movie on a laptop screen in your apartment is hardly the same as going to a proper cinema.

arkh 10y ago
But going to a "proper cinema" is a lot less enjoyable than using your own 4k screen with good audio, comfy seating, homemade snacks, no other audience, choice of language and subtitles and the possibility to pause it if needed. Let's not forget the choice of the exact time you watch it and you don't have to get dressed too.
- kagamine 10y ago
  A fast PC, a 4K screen, a nice home, paid streaming service subscription, paid ISP subscription and snacks. I believe France to be a bit more socialist (in the same way as Scandinavia is) than some other countries and it's possible also that the 'draconian laws' as YC comments insist on calling them, are there to level the playing field for all?
- douche 10y ago
  Plus you can make your own popcorn for $0.35, instead of getting juiced $12.00 for a bowl-full.
- xg15 10y ago
  So we don't need cinemas anymore because instead of $11 for a cinema everyone could pay $10000 for a home cinema system and get the same experience. Makes sense...

kagamine 10y ago

With the added costs of owning a PC good enough to stream and being on a paid for network good enough to stream, which might not be available in a lot of the French countryside where a bicycle ride or a short trip on public transport is more affordable. The cost is far greater than 9.99. Not to mention that French cinema sees itself as 'art' and a laptop screen can't do the director justice.

petra 10y ago
Netflix, in some countries has an option to download movies. And most PC's are good enough for 1080p.
wikibob 10y ago
This doesn't make sense. A Chromecast is 35€. A 7 year old laptop is perfectly capable of streaming and a HDMI cable to plug your laptop into your existing tv is 10€.

infinita740 10y ago

11.99€ for the "UHD/4k" subscription, my local cinema costs 7.80€. I agree it is still reasonable but I feel that a limited release would be better as a subscription for a single film is pretty dumb IMO.