Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

Post by thoughtpalette » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

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Why do you refuse to pay for the ad-free tier?

I was paying for Prime, and then they introduced ads. They started comingling their video content just like their warehouses so you'd get AVOD content with your premium VOD content so it made picking something ad free very difficult. They started with "Included with Prime" labels for the ad free stuff, but then that label started showing ads. I stopped watching so many shows at the first ad break and never returned.…

Post by IAmBroom » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

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> And of course, there's practically no social value of providing the public with free bodice rippers... Why not? > Some of the services end up being very expensive, like ebook lending We need something like a first-sale doctrine for electronic media. Blockchains would be ideal for tracking ownership.

If most of lending were made up of educational texts, there would be a social value. Some people describe bodice rippers as porn for women, and people get addicted to them in the same way they get addicted to porn. Would a library ever lend porn out? I'm guessing no, because of the lack of social value. To the extent that bodice rippers are like porn, the same rationale would apply.

Post by john-tells-all » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:59 PM UTC

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I've been doing the "pause" option not just for Netflix but multiple streamers. Adding up all of the streaming subs totaled as much monthly as the cable bill I did away with which made sense when everything was on Netflix. Now each studio has their own platform with similar per month fees. There's not enough content to justify that much monthly expense.

I have tried to get my wife to pause some of our subs but she absolutely refuses. She says "we're not poor" (we are not) and apparently just wants to spend $70/mo on these damn things. Even if costs were lower, I still think we should not have so many, since it spoils our kids. I don't want them to see TV as "we have access to everything all the time". I want them to see that there are tradeoffs, and understand that…

Post by triceratops » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

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Incredible value for money then.

It might not seem like a lot, but it is a lot when you consider that most residents don't use the library at all, and that adult book collections aren't great. 850,000 people have to share just 2 copies of Thompson's Calculus Made Easy. (I didn't cherry pick this: I looked up at my bookshelf and picked the first book I saw.) Very little of the money is spent on books. Only 15% of the money is spent on 'collections',…

Post by dawnerd » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

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It's also fairly trivial these days to backup 4k blurays. You can also buy them very cheap second hand. The quality difference between streaming and 4k BR is nuts.

What workflow do you use to backup Blu-rays? I was looking into this before, and I couldn't find anything convenient...