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Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
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Re: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
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> Pirating is honestly, by-far the least painful experience to watch things. No it's not. It's just the cheapest. Except for a few outliers like you describe, streaming is an order of magnitude less painful.
Only if you don't know about it, but otherwise it's literally two clicks, not even sign-in required
Yup. If my gf is streaming something and an ad appears, I'll trigger the download for it during the first ad break, and then when the second ad breaks, it'll most likely be finished downloading and then we switch to JellyFin.
The only use we have for streaming apps is finding what we want to watch.
Re: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
#73My wife and I canceled Netflix a while ago and went back to DVDs. An FYE store in our area recently had a store closing sale, so we bought three DVD players and snapped up all our favorite DVDs for a few bucks each. No subscription, no mid-movie ads, and no worrying about this or that service losing the streaming rights to whatever.
Wait until you discover the local library! DVDs for days, and they let me check out a Netflix device now and then.
Re: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
#74Good for them, I cancelled my subscription simply because Linux support is so awful. It's impossible to watch in 4k, and even with 1080p you frequently get automatically downgraded to lower res bitrate whenever the window isn't focused. Absolutely daunting.
You know it's funny. Awhile ago I subscribed only to watch Stranger Things, I paid for the 1080 HD plan. 4K is clearly incentivized. Any how, I called to complain at the time. My opinion is the picture instantly got notably better when I tried standard HD again. There seems to be different degradations of 1080 and 4K.
Resolution is easy to see, but what you really want to pay for is the bitrate.
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Only if you don't know about it, but otherwise it's literally two clicks, not even sign-in required
Yup. If my gf is streaming something and an ad appears, I'll trigger the download for it during the first ad break, and then when the second ad breaks, it'll most likely be finished downloading and then we switch to JellyFin. The only use we have for streaming apps is finding what we want to watch.
Yep, and that's already way more sophisticated than it needs to be. I no longer bother with the collecting aspect and just download everything on the fly, usually takes less than 5 minutes
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pirating is honestly, by-far the least painful experience to watch things. I recently started watching a series, and I figured I'd check if it's on any streaming services I have access to. I found it on Prime Video, but when I clicked into it, it needed some other separate subscription to a service I'd never heard of to watch it. And even then, it had like, seasons 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 of the 9 total seasons. If ther…
> Pirating is honestly, by-far the least painful experience to watch things. No it's not. It's just the cheapest. Except for a few outliers like you describe, streaming is an order of magnitude less painful.
> No it's not. It's just the cheapest.
If you set it up so it's convenient and usable by everyone in your house, including visitors, just like Netflix, it's not much cheaper. Electricity and occasional hard drive purchases add up. I bet mine averages out to ~$300/yr. I'm not sure whether just buying discs for stuff we actually watch, and the occasional 1-month binge-subscription for a series or something, would work out better, or not, but it's not a slam-dunk sure-win for piracy on the cost front.
> Except for a few outliers like you describe, streaming is an order of magnitude less painful.
Sort of. A good piracy server takes some time and effort to set up, certainly more than subscribing to even ten different streaming services would, and of course is beyond what most people can accomplish with computers, period.
However: 1) "I just plug in my laptop an play the movie" probably is less painful than having a bunch of streaming services, though not quite as friendly for all members of the household, and 2) Once it's set up, in actual use by people who aren't maintaining the system, the well-configured piracy server is less painful than streaming services, for those users.
Re: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
#77I would love for a service to automate cycling through services. Some small fee to automate getting a month or two of service from a selection of providers and just rotate. I don't need year round Netflix, Hulu and Disney but I think I'd be in trouble if I cancelled all of them. Anyone wanna startup?
Jellyfin.
I always thought that was just a Plex alternative. I’ll have to give it a second look.
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Customer resentment is slow to build up, but once the inertia is visible it's usually too late.
I just don't think that's true anymore. Netflix isn't going anywhere. Twitter and Reddit have taken highly visible user-hostile actions since back in 2023 and people stayed. People have become too passive and docile to switch anymore. The portion of the population that's discerning enough to leave is small.
Google trends show a 15 and 30% decrease that is still going
https://trends.google.fr/trends/explore?date=all&q=Reddit,Ne...
Re: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
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Severance (Apple TV) and Fallout (Amazon Prime) are pretty amazing TV shows that came out somewhat recently. Nothing on top of my mind came out of Netflix for which I really felt the need of resubscribing. I miss the quality of TV shows we reached with Mr. Robot, Silicon Valley, Utopia (UK), and Westworld :(
I pretty much declared streaming show bankruptcy after sitting through Severance season 2 last year. I know a lot of people liked it and maybe I'm just cynical, but to me it seems like every "serious" streaming show eventually falls victim to the "stretch a 2 hour movie's plot across a 12 - 16 hour season" strategy. They know it works because enough people binge watch or feel compelled to finish a series they've star…
That is disheartening about Severance, I've been meaning to catch up on s2 after a phenomenal s1. But that you're totally on point about the padding. The last good series I saw that finished well was Mr Robot, getting closer to a decade ago now. No one knows how to write a well contained long running series anymore without stretching it with slop and content.
Re: Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
#80Netflix like any rational business keeps on increasing its prices until their profits no longer grow, or a new entrant eats their lunch.