Wild that standard with ads is now the same price as original regular Netflix
I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies… Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn’t have what you want to look at.
all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I’ll be holding onto my money then
Even using Firefox on Windows 10, 720p! I cancelled a while back and now I just download stuff.
Even Asahi Linux literally had to deal with this just to get 1080p:
This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source “media center” solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I’m stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).
And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they’ve relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it’s a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It’s a crapshoot if the “link” will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.
I don’t get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse
We used to have one, and it was great.
RIP Boxee.
You may have already looked into it, but I’ve been pretty happy with stremio. There are guides on getting it hooked up with real debrid + torrentio, and the end result is reliably search for what you want -> click play.
I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.
I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.
All that for JUST NETFLIX. What incredible bullshit people are having to deal with.
When you open the app without an account, the animation it shows still says that it doesnt have any ads
I stopped going to the cinema for the ads , I used Netflix until they geoblocked my downloaded content and I couldn’t watch it while traveling.
Now all my movies and series are free, in the resolution that I want, and they stay on my device for how long I want.
Yesh numbers can be easily manipulated.
Netflix is “sold” along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.
They don’t need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.
Seconding this. The figures are too rubbery for headlines like this to have any meaning.
Wasn’t $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive
$7.99 was the only price at some point. Then they reduced the quality of the service and increased the price.
Streaming only launched at 9.99 iirc
My parents are finally getting rid of it. The one thing I’ve noticed, though, is that not having a subscription service means I’m very unlikely to get off my butt and watch tv/movies. Which isn’t a bad thing, I guess I just value other entertainment more?
I’ve wanted to watch the boy and the heron for a while. Maybe I’ll get to it eventually, lol.
Are the gains self reported? They are probably lying then.
They are a public traded company, it is illegal for them to lie about their finances.
Well then thank goodness they’d never lie for their own gain.
“Are these ‘gains’ in the room with us right now?”
Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.
They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.
As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we’re out.
They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.
Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.
mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port
Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won’t use to be able to play it.
Am I the only one around here that wants to see them burn in hell just out of principle?
I get Netflix for free but literally never use it. I think I’ll cancel it. Why even have it?
Normal, people show again and again that they dont give a f about the prices, so they go up and ppl still subscribe.
prices will go up until ppl start to cancel
