And people will bitch and moan on the Internet, pay up, and repeat the process next time they try this.
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The stock is doing good so there must be plenty of people thinking Netflix is essential. And I guess it is if you have no tech skills at all.
I don't have a subscription myself, but if I want to watch something they have, I'd rather pay up than spending my time trying to figure out how to pirate it.
For me, it's less about technical ability, and more about how I spend my time.
But all you have to do to pirate it is to visit a website…
Already canceled a long time ago. When I subbed they had all the good shows in one spot. Then everything got split up among others services and it was no longer worth it.
Plus the content they make themselves is hit or miss. And the misses are in far bigger numbers.
Seems like they brought themselves to a spot where growing more is very hard so they start messing with subscriptions to get more money.
Just curious what they are going to do when that stops working, because I think the next step is just to realize more growth is very hard. And anything they change may add subscribers but it may also cause them to leave, so they have to turn the knobs very carefully.
My Netflix is called rutracker, your Netflix is called The Pirate Bay
My Netflix is called aMule, fopnu and qBitTorrent with search plugins.
My Netflix is called Jellyfin With Suspiciously Acquired Media From Dubious Corners of the Internet.
Net what?
I've officially removed Netflix
I quit netflix recently after almost 10 years of continuous subscription. When they raised the price again it was a good Occasion although not the reason. I think so was done with it for a while now.
I guess I'll start reading books again - or watch a few films instead of stretched out series.
Pricing (US Dollar)
Standard with ads*: $6.99 / month
Standard: $15.49 / month (extra member slots can be added for $7.99 each / month) [Full HD]
Premium: $22.99 / month (extra member slots can be added for $7.99 each / month) [Ultra HD]
What does a member slot mean by the way? Is it a person (as in if you want seperate recommendations for you, your wife and kid you pay for two more slots) or is it a home (as in your family, the grandparets, friends you share the account with etc. since they started cracking down on password sharing. Obligatory never had or even used netflix (other than seeing a few movies at friends' places)
I'm guessing it's for additional households because they disabled password sharing.
I LOVE this bit:
"will stop measuring its success in new subscribers, but in growth byr egional revenue."
We're hitting our self defined goals JUST fine guys!
Seems reasonable from a business point of view. They are approaching a saturation point and changing how they make money so shifting the KPIs only makes sense.
I already used Stream Fab to get Dark off there, so whatever.
(Dark was so good, I do appreciate the risks the old Netflix took on some programming, even if the company is busy burning that goodwill now.)
Own your files. Play them in native resolution. Accept no compromises.
Since you say native resolution I assume you mean the highest resolution and bitrate available. Because playing the native resolution of a DVD is way way worse than streaming.
Buying everything on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray would be very expensive if you watch. It's also not very convenient.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying Blu-ray's but don't pretend it's the perfect solution to all the problems.
I mean torrenting.
You said "own" though.
I pirate too but it's not ownership.
I don't correlate purchase with ownership.
Infact by removing the DRM I think I own my media to a far greater extent than I would if I purchased it legally.
Idk, the cheapest Netflix streaming service w/o ads is $15.50/month. Most Blurays are $10-15. So each Bluray is something like a month of Netflix.
If you watch a lot of movies/TV shows and almost never rewatch them, then yeah, maybe a streaming service is a good option. But if you need multiple streaming services to get the content you want, the appeal of just buying physical media increases. My kids mostly watch the same handful of TV series, so I have cancelled our subscriptions (totaling $40 or so) and now I just buy the shows they want.
send a message, cancel and hit the high seas like we did before they came out.
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