Netflix is planning to raise prices… again::Netflix is planning to raise the cost of its subscription, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report comes just one week after the end of the writers strike.
jellyfin/plex here I come
Netflix is planning to raise prices... again
Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23901315/netflix-subscription-price-raise-wga-strike
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bappity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Radicaldog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jellyfin is king. Plex is corporate-in-waiting, wishing it could have infinite growth infinitely. Jellyfin is just some people makin a thing.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 8 months ago
- Make a decent video streaming service
- Lure users with low prices and fairly high quality content
- Realize other companies want part of the cake too
- Pretend you have a monopoly, so increase prices and lower the average quality of new content
- 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
- Surprised Pikachu
- Repeat steps 4-6
- Repeat step 7
- Repeat step 7-8
- …
- Die a slow death?
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 8 months 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.
FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Get on the boat! comrades!
marx2k@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just realized it’s been 3 months since I last watched anything on Netflix.
Huh…
manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 8 months ago
I can’t remember the last time I saw something good on Netflix
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
One Piece live action is decent.
manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 8 months 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
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Barely. Cut a lot of good stuff and adding random shit
SternburgExport@feddit.de 8 months ago
Looks like I cancelled my subscription just in time then.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck these corporations. Fuck the people who are so greedy. Fuck em all. Cunts
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 8 months 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”
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 8 months 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.
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I left over a year ago and forgot about them.
atomWood@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh, boy. Here we go again.
kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 8 months 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… 🏴☠️
timou@jlai.lu 8 months ago
🏴☠️
pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So this is one result of the writer’s strike. I’m all for it if it’s to support writers.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
jerome@lemmy.world 8 months ago
vpn my bros!
foggy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How does a VPN affect the price?
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Netflix charges different rates in different countries.
Also, they probably just mean piracy.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
100% discount
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Any recommendations?
Gibdos@feddit.de 8 months 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.
LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I have proton vpn. I like it so far
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 8 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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 8 months 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.
simonced@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I just finished most of my series, good timing for an “au revoir”…
skybreaker@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s been their way of doing things for long enough that this is not even news to me.
Ghostlight@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Stremio FTW
heygooberman@lemmy.today 8 months 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.
skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Maybe its time I hit the yar ol seven seas again