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Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by SleepyMyroslav »

jwrallie wrote: post #94
wand3r wrote: post #15

Basically there was a finite amount of content and a lot of it appeared on Netflix. Then 4+ services launched and a near fixed amount of content was divided by 4. Then they doubled the price. So now for a worse discovery experience you are effectively paying 8x the price.

Does anyone has experience with cancelling and switching services periodically so that you can access all the content, but not at the same time?

I managed to get my Netflix entire account deleted with all of my bookmarks on where I stopped watching what because I haven't re-subscribed for a while. I suspect they have some kind of grace period before your data gets purged. If you hit it you will have to create account anew and it will be completely blank new.

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Post by igetspam »

With all the price creeping and content being spread out everywhere, piracy and a storage array are the cheaper option. My MIL bought a piracy streaming stick at a naval base (I had to stop that because it didn't use a VPN). Before the sharing crackdowns, you could load balance costs but now it's just bad spending.

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Post by antifa »

> Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

TBH sounds like most $20/seat/month SaaSs that would be slightly useful to me if they had a lower $20/year personal use tier or a practical "barely getting started" free tier.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by jprete »

Tallain wrote: post #141
jprete wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was also the period where Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make and less likely to get brand-new subscribers around season 3. So it’s hard for me to give that statistic any weight.

For Netflix, it's not just about new shows driving subscriber count. I'm probably summarizing incorrectly, but it also has to do with their royalty structure. Canceling a show after two seasons allows them to save a ton of money by short-changing their creators and stars, while still getting headlines about signing huge-figure deals with those same people. [source]: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news…

This is why I said that "Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make" in the GP, but thanks for providing a reference.

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Post by indecline »

cmiller1 wrote: post #9
mholt wrote: post #8

We have Disney+ but don’t watch it super often. Our price is increasing from $85/yr to $140. I’ll probably cancel here in a few days and maybe in the future just subscribe for a month and binge some shows after they’re out. The almost doubling of the price is absurd.

140 a year? You know you can pay for a good VPN for a lot less than that...

Which country has the best price? Do you have to be VPN’d to watch, or only to purchase the subscription?

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

cmiller1 wrote: post #9
mholt wrote: post #8

We have Disney+ but don’t watch it super often. Our price is increasing from $85/yr to $140. I’ll probably cancel here in a few days and maybe in the future just subscribe for a month and binge some shows after they’re out. The almost doubling of the price is absurd.

140 a year? You know you can pay for a good VPN for a lot less than that...

Not everybody wants to pirate their content. Some of us even make their living from copyrighted material.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

mholt wrote: post #8

We have Disney+ but don’t watch it super often. Our price is increasing from $85/yr to $140. I’ll probably cancel here in a few days and maybe in the future just subscribe for a month and binge some shows after they’re out. The almost doubling of the price is absurd.

>I’ll probably cancel here in a few days and maybe in the future just subscribe for a month and binge some shows after they’re out.

I've heard a lot of people suggesting this and I've done it myself a couple of times. I wonder if the streamers will catch on and require a 12 month minimum subscription.

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Post by charlie0 »

drcongo wrote: post #244
charlie0 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It still is quite a hazel. I find new issues popping up at least once a year that requires technical know how to resolve. The average person isn't going anywhere near that beside a simple torrent setup.

That's nuts!

Yep, I know. Some of the configuration can be quite squirrely.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by jprete »

salad-tycoon wrote: post #247
labster wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly detective fiction is perhaps the worst format you could give for your example, because the structure of the story allows you to essentially tell a different short story with different characters every time. Moody Twin Peaks has almost nothing in common with the goofball Psych (except the one tribute episode). Inspector Lewis plots are complex and intellectual, while Castle is fluffy and predictable. Recipes…

So you must like detective fiction, eh? You’ve won me over and to your point you can have a Fr. Brown (1950s Catholic priest detective) and a Dexter (blood splatter analysis turned serial killer). Now of course the basic premise is always the same good (but conflicted) guy sees bad thing done, investigates, finds bad guys and reconciles one small aspect of world and maybe one small aspect of self discovery. Heck, mos…

Nit: Basically all stories have a form like that.

(I _think_ detective stories specifically choose for the protagonist to want societally-sanctioned retribution. The protagonist then has to publicly demonstrate that the antagonist deserves retribution, rather than take retribution on their own. And the stories also assume that society can and will inflict retribution on the antagonist once the society's rules are satisfied.)

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