Netflix is planning to raise prices... again

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• skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe its time I hit the yar ol seven seas again

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  jellyfin/plex here I come

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  • Radicaldog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jellyfin is king. Plex is corporate-in-waiting, wishing it could have infinite growth infinitely. Jellyfin is just some people makin a thing.

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• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1. Make a decent video streaming service
  2. Lure users with low prices and fairly high quality content
  3. Realize other companies want part of the cake too
  4. Pretend you have a monopoly, so increase prices and lower the average quality of new content
  5. People use alternative ways to access video streaming content, that’s also more convenient because they don’t have to have a gazillion different apps on their smart device to stream video
  6. Surprised Pikachu
  7. Repeat steps 4-6
  8. Repeat step 7
  9. Repeat step 7-8
  10. …
  11. Die a slow death?

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• cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As far as streaming services go, Netflix has felt fairly weak. If Netflix bumps prices, Max would be cheaper and have a more solid content library.

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• FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Get on the boat! comrades!

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• marx2k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just realized it’s been 3 months since I last watched anything on Netflix.

  Huh…

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• manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can’t remember the last time I saw something good on Netflix

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One Piece live action is decent.

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    • manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is it hundreds of episodes long? I don’t watch shonen for that reason. About 50 episodes is my limit unless there’s a damn good reason and 0 filler

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    • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Barely. Cut a lot of good stuff and adding random shit

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• SternburgExport@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like I cancelled my subscription just in time then.

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• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck these corporations. Fuck the people who are so greedy. Fuck em all. Cunts

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• Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess I don’t mind this as much as most since I tend to subscribe for a month at a time to watch two or three shows/movies. And considering I would rather buy a blu-ray in every situation, 15 or even 30 bucks is not that bad.

  But… I really do wonder how this maths out. Obviously netflix has the data. But I have a standing crunchyroll/funimation subscription because it is dirt cheap and I basically need to watch one show a year to justify it. I do not have a standing netflix and I only subscribe when they do a few things I care about. Same with Disney and Hulu. And, sample bias but, talking with friends: they do the same.

  And I really do wonder how they are coming out better with “more for a month or two” rather than “nobody ever cancels their netflix”

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  • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, people always come into these threads foaming at the mouth, but in the end it’s just a big old spreadsheet, and it tips on favor of higher prices.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I left over a year ago and forgot about them.

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• atomWood@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, boy. Here we go again.

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• kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess I will continue to use the expanded hard drive space I just moved to for my zfs pool. Yo ho, yo ho… 🏴‍☠️

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• timou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️

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• pavnilschanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So this is one result of the writer’s strike. I’m all for it if it’s to support writers.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If by “support the writers” you mean, “Netflix doesn’t want to let the writers pay hike lower their earnings or executive pay.”

    Then yeah, it’s to support the writers.

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• jerome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  vpn my bros!

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How does a VPN affect the price?

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    • Gibdos@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      🏴‍☠️

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Netflix charges different rates in different countries.

      Also, they probably just mean piracy.

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    • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      100% discount

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any recommendations?

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    • Gibdos@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can highly recommend Mullvad VPN. They are on the more expensive side with 5€ per month with no promotions or sales. But they are generally well regarded and privacy respecting. You can even send the money as cash in an envelope to them if you are extremely paranoid.

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    • LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have proton vpn. I like it so far

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Netflix is planning to increase the cost of its streaming service yet again, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

  The streamer will reportedly issue the price hike a “few months” after the Hollywood actors strike ends, which could happen in the coming weeks.

  Just last week, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) ended its strike and began voting on a contract with major Hollywood studios, including Netflix, that could change the business of streaming.

  For example, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and other services will now have to share streaming data with the WGA under the new contract, allowing writers to see how well their content performed.

  Netflix is likely waiting until the end of the strike to raise prices, as hiking up costs when no new content is coming out doesn’t seem like a smart move.

  Once both writers and actors are back to work, there will likely be a lot of new shows and movies coming out that Netflix can use to justify the increase.

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  • AttackPanda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn Netflix keeps trying to get me to cancel. Like they are working hard at losing me as a customer. If my kids didn’t watch random stuff on there I would have already pulled the plug on it. This could be what does it.

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• simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just finished most of my series, good timing for an “au revoir”…

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• skybreaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sucks for those still using it, I guess. This was always gonna be the case. Capitalism is infinite growth and they will do whatever they can show numbers going up to their shareholders, even as they’re hemorrhaging money. Short term gains that will lead to long term losses. Sustainable profit is not the goal; growth at all costs is. You reap what you sow Netflix, you big turd.

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s been their way of doing things for long enough that this is not even news to me.

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• Ghostlight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Stremio FTW

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• heygooberman@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seeing that they released all the Season 1 episodes of Castlevania: Nocturne, I guess it wouldn’t hurt for me to cancel my subscription and rejoin when Season 2 comes out. Maybe Crunchyroll would be more suitable for my anime binge-watching.

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