I think the price is fair for the amount of content, but my family has been considering leaving Netflix to cut down on screen time and save a few bucks. I picked up YT premium, which saves me a lot of time waiting to skip ads. I wish they had this when I was a kid with the 13 VHF and 52 UHF channels in Brooklyn when I was a kid. If you buy Starbucks coffee, then Netflix is just 2 or 3 lattes a month to make up the difference! I went back to Dunkin a while ago when I don't have my thermos with me ;)
Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here – it costs $7.99 per month (USA)
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like a punitive effort to respond to netflix, but I bet if they do it they will be likely to resubscribe later on if they actually enjoy watching it.
I don't know about OP, but there are people who don't feel particularly guilty about not contributing money to starving multi-billion dollar publishers. The only reason they used Netflix was because it was convenient and affordable.
>The only reason they used Netflix was because it was convenient and affordable.
Given most of the shows on Netflix are exclusive, it's not a stretch to think people enjoyed their content. Consumers aren't zombies that just watch whatever is cheapest and easiest. If that were the case the only successful streaming service would be Youtube or something.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like a punitive effort to respond to netflix, but I bet if they do it they will be likely to resubscribe later on if they actually enjoy watching it.
I don't know about OP, but there are people who don't feel particularly guilty about not contributing money to starving multi-billion dollar publishers. The only reason they used Netflix was because it was convenient and affordable.
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#44I don't think we'll turn off NFLX indefinitely, and we probably won't pause. But this might get us to consolidate with other family members. If NFLX is blessing account-sharing, then we might take them up on the offer. Going it alone is pretty expensive.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
They will when I cancel the service, acquire the content using some alternative methods and make it available to my brother and mother on my Plex server. I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way.
> I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way. I can agree with you on principle, but they're not making it any more inconvenient. Literally nothing changes except the price.
So having multiple separate accounts isn't any more inconvenient? It's not like they offer a pricing where you can have multiple households.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way. I can agree with you on principle, but they're not making it any more inconvenient. Literally nothing changes except the price.
So having multiple separate accounts isn't any more inconvenient? It's not like they offer a pricing where you can have multiple households.
Umm, this is exactly what they are implementing. $7.99 per additional household, billed to the primary households account.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
They will when I cancel the service, acquire the content using some alternative methods and make it available to my brother and mother on my Plex server. I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way.
> I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way. I can agree with you on principle, but they're not making it any more inconvenient. Literally nothing changes except the price.
I'm travelling for work from time to time as well, having my Chromecast With Google TV ask me to authenticate each time because it doesn't recognize the network as my "home" is inconvenient. Plex doesn't do this, so it wins on that end.
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> I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract. You almost certainly in fact paid for 4 concurrent streams in the same household, and you were just out of compliance on your contract the whole time.
That’s probably a fair statement, but I highly doubt there is a substantial audience of families that want to watch four separate shows at the same time in the same house for them to justify the research and marketing to implement.
2 parents, 2 kids. It might not happen all the time but I think in a family of 4 it's easy enough to run into this scenario that you might be interested in 4 streams.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract. You almost certainly in fact paid for 4 concurrent streams in the same household, and you were just out of compliance on your contract the whole time.
Actually, they encouraged it - - https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712
A tweet is not a contract, but it’s very nice