Happened to me with Amazon Prime as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290 The moment they announce

Happened to me with Amazon Prime as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290 The moment they announced the price hike, it's like something cracked in my rationalization to maintain the service, and every adverse complaint I've ever queued up in my mind against the service floated right to the top. I'm on the verge of the same with Netflix. If I see a price hike, I'll quit just the same. They've been losing far more content than they've been adding. ...which I'd be happy to do. The production shops behind the prestige and niche films these streamers are lapping up for fixed fees (something like n% of budget paid to the production house, where n is a value over 100) are utterly crippling the production of quality titles that aren't things like event pieces or sequels. As the good production houses dip because of the rates the streamers are paying, you're more frequently being left with new or inexperienced production houses filling the void, producers with less experience IDing the creatives (writing/acting/etc), finding directors who can cast successfully, doing accurate budgeting, etc. I'll stop short of turning this into too much of a rant. Basically: the Netflixes and Amazons of the world have crippled the business case for an entire class of motion picture and subverted the quality of output in this class as a result.