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Netflix’s ad tier will cost $6.99 a month and launch in November
- tpmx 4y agoI was a Netflix subscriber for its first streaming service decade or so [in Scandinavia], starting in 2011. Cancelled about a year ago. The primary concern was the the quality of new content, not the price.
- ParksNet 4y agoNetflix should have just doubled their prices and 'doubled' the content they offered. Would have smothered all these other streaming services. The horse has bolted now.
- kramerger 4y agoEvery 1-2 years, I buy a prepaid Netflix card. I catch up with one or two shows and that's it, I barely open the app for the reminder of my period. I don't really see the point of paying for 5-6 streaming services every month.
- garciasn 4y agoFor me it was threefold: 1. Competition 2. Lack of content created by legacy studios whom were provided true quality. 3. Too much content to wade through and no easy way to do it.
- joemazerino 4y agoSeconded. Cancelled because of the very-clear and obvious pivot to woke original content. Give me good entertainment and not ideologically based.
- camdat 4y agoCould you define woke?
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- jdlshore 4y agoI read your link and it didn’t seem to address the question. (I admit bailing early because it didn’t seem relevant. It talks about Netflix’s content creation policy, and bizarrely, what Elon Musk thinks of it. Why Musk is being quoted in an article about Netflix is a mystery to me.) Additionally, your explanation is word salad. What is a “5-year old adult” and how do you avoid triggering them? Which social belief systems are you referring to, specifically?
- yazzku 4y agoMusk is being quoted because he criticized Netflix for serving "woke" content. It's not a word salad, every word is intentional. Admittedly, I did not do a good job at explaining this, but honestly it's just a waste of our time.
- camdat 4y agoIt's stunning to me that certain political groups are incredibly and violently angry (dare I say... triggered) about something they're completely unable to quantify or describe. This description is about as opaque as your opinion on Netflix.
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- kramerger 4y agoHow many streaming services do you guys pay for?
- stuckkeys 4y agoI paid for few. Now I pay for none. Why? They got so greedy. I had to dig for my Jack Sparrow outfit. Arrrrrrrrr.
- PenguinCoder 4y agoUsed to pay for one. Now I pay for Zero.
- exq 4y agoSame here. I used to pay for Netflix, but for me these days... Sonarr, radarr, the other *arrs and jellyfin/plex are a much better user experience.
- tpmx 4y agoOne: HBO Max, they had this deal of "half price for life" when they launched here (so about $5/month.) It's sort of barely worth it. They do have a nice 90s archive.
- Arrath 4y agoAmazon Prime Video but indirectly since it's a bonus of Prime membership, and typically one other streaming service. Currently, peacock. I share Peacock out with friends and family and in return I use their Netflix, HBO, Disney+, and Hulu.
- Genbox 4y agoHBO, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+ Watch the same 3-4 series again and again. Never watch any of the featured content. It is not quality content.
- kramerger 4y agoHow much do you pay monthly? Feels like you would be better off with the dvd box
- eksx 4y agoHonestly netflix is the main platform I have kept around since 2000's. All other platform I signup to catch up on shows and then cancel after a month. I think netflix has the best all around library for my entire family to enjoy.
- milchek 4y agoOne of the issues regarding content is that a lot of popular shows are in a format that encourages binge watching. It seems impossible that they’d ever be able to keep up with viewer appetites by creating their own content when people consume so quickly. To combat this they buy a lot of old crappy shows and movies and the catalog ends up looking pretty average. It reminds me of the old “weeklies” section at Blockbuster. Maybe to combat this, they’ll switch to a format where they space episodes out to keep you paying. So, they might end up releasing episodes of popular shows weekly AND have ads. The irony.
- just_boost_it 4y agoI watch those old shows. Sometimes you just want to watch tv and it doesn't really matter what's on as long as it's decent quality. Seinfeld, Friends, Fraser, I'd watch them every few years. In some ways it's better than watching something I feel like I need to binge. I don't really want to spend 6 hours watching something just to keep that "ooh what's next" feeling going.
- Kye 4y agoAll the other streaming services already do the weekly thing. I think I enjoy it more and remember more, so it's worth the delay. People have actually talked about the latest episodes of (for example) Andor and Rings of Power longer than the week after the first episodes.
- metadat 4y agoWhat a sad sign of desperation from Netflix, being reduced to racing to the bottom. This is copying a (imo gross) Hulu package pricing strategy. I wonder what the target audience is? i.e. who really wants to save $4/month by getting bombarded with ads? I'd just as soon skip it completely, but I really dislike being subjected to advertisements. I just don't want them in my brain. Maybe some people enjoy watching 30-40% ads over th course of an hour?
- thesuitonym 4y agoI used to think the same thing, but I started asking the people I knew who had Hulu accounts, and apparently a lot of them are paying for the ad tier. It's insane to me that people are so accepting of the absolute worst part of watching TV.
- exq 4y agoWhat scares me is gen alpha is being raised in an environment where bombardment of advertising is normal and even encouraged in some cases. I can't fathom willingly paying for a streaming service and still getting ads, or at least not blocking them myself at browser or dns level.
- skyyler 4y agoI saw someone else here mention something that disturbed me deeply. Upper class children are going to grow up with premium services that don't serve ads. Lower class children are going to grow up being bombarded with ads at all times, from all places. It's going to be interesting to see how that changes things.
- aamoscodes 4y agoLower class children will become more adept at using ad blockers, or ignoring the screen while an ad is playing
- davrosthedalek 4y agoLimited to 720p... I understand that 4k is out, but 1080p?
- faeriechangling 4y agoIf people want to be bombarded by ads while watching low quality streams they will use pirate streams and save $6.99 a month and get a bigger library. At least the pirate streams have the common courtesy to not show you ads for penis enlargement pills during the actual show. What is the target market for this? You also can't design shows that work with ads and work without ads at the same time. The writers have to write interruptions into the script, like cliffhangers right before the ad break like they used to do, or they have to assume a continual run of the program. Since the latter is now the norm, the ad breaks will inevitably be horribly timed interruptions so bad that it's an insult to charge a monthly sub on top.
- iknowSFR 4y agoYour assumption of the average consumer’s technical chops and desires isn’t realistic. Pirating anything is not as convenient as paying $7/mo. The majority of outcomes here are either they pay the fee and get ads, pay the higher fee and don’t get ads, or don’t pay and don’t watch. It’s not a pirate or don’t pirate discussion for most of the world.
- Beaver117 4y agoA large percentage of the world pirates. If you can't learn how or find someone to teach you, when the benefits are clear, then you deserve to pay and suffer through ads.
- joemazerino 4y agoI sincerely doubt a large percentage of the world has the technical know-how to pirate. Watching cracked streams is akin to trading endpoint security for the latest GOTR episode, too.
- aamoscodes 4y agoI mostly agree with you, with one clarification that you don’t personally need to know how piracy works to benefit from it. Piracy is very common outside of the US. In the US piracy is an individual decision, you pick your storage and tools yourself. Other places it’s trivially easy to find someone selling pirated media in local markets.