Netflix launches an ad-supported tier
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Netflix launches an ad-supported tier
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#3It's like all the services are increasing their price and decreasing the content/quality.
I find that's issue with startup culture where they have lost billions of dollars in name of growth and now they need to recover
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#4Up to 5 minutes per hour of ads, one device, streaming only (no downloading for planes/etc), 720p max, 10% of the catalog unavailable.
That’s a hell of a lot of compromises.
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#5I wonder who this new option is supposed to appeal to. Probably just an excuse to jack up the actual valid options to a higher price in comparison?
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#6> a limited number of movies and TV shows won't be available due to licensing restrictions, which we’re working on
This needs much more detail. What isn't available and in what regions?
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#7Up to 5 minutes per hour of ads, one device, streaming only (no downloading for planes/etc), 720p max, 10% of the catalog unavailable. That’s a hell of a lot of compromises.
And the catalog was anyway steadily going down...
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#8I wonder who this new option is supposed to appeal to. Probably just an excuse to jack up the actual valid options to a higher price in comparison?
Or for third parties to bundle "for free."
For example Walmart+ bundles Paramount+'s ad tier. T-Mobile currently bundles the Ad-Free Basic/Standard depending on wireless plan, maybe they'll move to the Ad tier.
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#9Up to 5 minutes per hour of ads, one device, streaming only (no downloading for planes/etc), 720p max, 10% of the catalog unavailable. That’s a hell of a lot of compromises.
They could probably honestly remove 10% of the catalog and nobody would miss anything.
It feels like 80% of the catalog is Netflix homebrewed garbage, another 10% is foreign dubbed garbage, and the remaining 10% you've probably already seen.
I honestly have never thought harder about outright cancelling Netflix. I'm very close...
Every time I log in to watch something, Netflix recommends TV Shows and Movies they know I have already watched because I watched them on Netflix. The rest of the recommendations are Netflix original content, of which I find maybe less than 10% to actually be worth the time to watch. I have never before left so many movies and TV shows unfinished... and the list continues to grow.
I cannot recall the last time I searched for a movie and found exactly what I was looking for.
The value of Netflix has decreased sharply in the past few years.
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#10Curious that the UK announcement, at https://about.netflix.com/en/news/our-newest-plan-now-availa..., mentions:
> In the UK, there will also be nationally recognised brands such as HSBC, T-Mobile, GoCompare, Lidl and Ernest Jones.
T-Mobile hasn't been a consumer-facing brand in the UK for at least seven years.