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They’re forcing me away everytime they make a decision. I’ll stick with paying for a plexshare, I know I can get it for free elsewhere, but I can’t be arsed messing about if there’s shit links.
Wasn’t plexshare that led to a lastpass employee getting keylogger on his system and then attackers getting the full download of vaults.
My number one criticism of Netflix was that it was too accessible so this is a welcome change, I really think the higher bar will increase the quality of views.
Do you not think it’s a bit too cheap as well? I feel guilty thieving such a quality service from them.
Real question - not sure if you guys are serious? It’s my least used service these days due to the quality and longevity of its content (outside of the kids shows)
I think getynge was being sarcastic and I was following suit. I do actually have a subscription because my family uses it a lot but I agree that the service is getting worse and worse. What other services do you prefer?
Mostly Prime these days because they have some pretty obscure horror, but I don’t know if I’d subscribe if it didn’t come with Amazon Prime.
MAX has also been pretty solid since all of the documentary channels were brought in, and the HBO originals are always good for a rewatch.
Honestly AppleTV has been putting out some of the best OC these days, if I wasn’t getting it for free I would be okay paying for it.
I’ve heard good things about AppleTV. My friend has been raving about Ted Lasso.
I do feel like it’s quantity over quality with a lot of the streaming services.
Not OP but for me Netflix is useful because of weird stuff it provides, like anime and Korean romcoms.
That stuff is definitely not anybody else’s cup of tea, so if they ever force me to stop sharing it with family and girlfriend I would readily pick any other service over it (Disney, HBO, Amazon etc.)
I agree
Netflix used to be the only game in town, now they are just the most expensive.
Aye ye scallywags! T’night we sail the seven seas!
They started to enforce the multi home rule on my account, so I cancelled my subscription. I think I had the account over 10 years. I was barely using my account anymore, so I don’t miss it that much.
Same here. I feel bad for my family who was using my account (and has less disposable income) but they have access to our Plex now so win/win.
Don’t you need a lot of upload speed for Plex etc to work?
Depends. For example a large ISP will have generous up/down speeds within the same city for customers on its own infrastructure so maybe that helps. You can of course transcode to less quality.
If you have fiber, 99% of the time your speeds are symmetric.
Yea sadly I have fiber at 100down and 10 up. And from what I can tell, I need faster upload to stream anything to anyone. And yes, this is the best option available.
That can’t be considered fibre than can it? Fibre is generally 1gup/down atleast in my city.
Fibre is just the medium of transmission, the ISPs can throttle it however they want.
I saw the actual fiber spools they rolled out. It’s a fiberoptic cable. I just live out in the country and the other option is LTE4. The DSL company basically quit selling it, and it was slower than LTE4.
I still have an active Netflix account (for the odd thing I haven’t yet added to my self-hosted Jellyfin instance), and actually downgraded from the Premium tier to the Basic tier a few months ago when they started cracking down on password-sharing here in Canada.
Even though the Basic tier is “only 720p”, I barely notice the difference in quality since my TV (and a lot of other modern TVs) has built-in upscaling that works surprisingly well. And I’m the type that is really picky about picture quality, particular about codecs and encoding methods, and all that jazz. But I’m really happy that I managed to get onto the Basic tier before they removed it. I was prepared for a clear drop in quality in return for cost-savings, and I was okay with that, but was delighted to find nothing had noticeably changed after switching over.
The Basic tier checks all of my boxes, verifiably:
- 1 screen at a time is enough
- The end result of the video quality I can perceive is perfect
- Cheapest plan without ads
Sometimes I even wonder if my TV is even actually upscaling from 720p, or if Netflix is just quietly serving 1080p in reality, but was just continuing to advertise 720p to deter people from the cheaper plan to get them onto a more expensive one, with plans all along to phase this tier out.
My parents, who were previously sharing my account when I was on the Premium tier, ended up getting their own account also on the Basic tier. The net result is that Netflix makes less money off of the two of our accounts combined now compared to the single Premium account we shared before. So in the end, they ended up losing money, and we lost nothing of perceivable value.
I’ll probably end up cancelling our account at some point entirely, and my parents can continue to use their own account without being affected, so the forced split actually saved us all money and made our situations more future-proofed.
Contrary to popular belief, I actually think that the Basic tier could have ended up seeing more uptake in the long-run had people who only needed a single screen and wanted to save money, decided to try it, and notice that the picture quality was more than satisfactory enough, either due to the stream quality being better than advertised in reality, or due to the pretty good upscaling ability of modern TVs. I’m sure word would have gotten around from technically-minded people to the masses at some point, and we would have seen more people switching.
I’m sure Netflix did away with the Basic tier because they knew it could realistically put a dent in their profits at some point.
Netflix has been cooking this up for years now and other video platforms like Youtube are testing similar strategies already to follow suit. Prices are ramping up and quality of pretty much all services (web and others) is downspiraling rapidly. Guess that’s what they call market self-regulation, heh? Anyway, as much as Netflix and others say this will make them a great deal of money, it will backfire soon or later. I think a lot of us will realise we’re better off with less of these time wasters in our lives in the end.
Verizon just upped the price of my grandfathered plan I was on. They told me that on the phone. I just left, luckily that was an option.
Seems like all these companies are following the airlines model to becoming profitable. Make everything as miserable as possible for all your customers, and make them pay extra for a basic experience. Things that used to be included like meals or being able to sit with the rest of the people you are flying with are now exorbitantly expensive.
That’s cool. I’m happy to never use these services ever again. I cancelled my sub years ago and so far I’ve had zero reason to return. Shit like this is just validation.
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I cancelled when they jacked up their prices and announced the ad-supported tier. They’ve been nothing but anti-consumer the last couple years and their product just isn’t worth the price anymore.
Personally I got fed up of all their cancelling shows I was actually interested in. Moved to paramount plus to get star trek, then will probably cancel that for as bit. Just found myself watching crap on netflix, I can get crap from the free streamers like Roku and Pluto and 4od/itvx/my5 that get free in UK (with ads no subs)
I hate Netflix as much as you guys do and I think their content is dogshit, but you’re naive if you think they’re going under any time soon. Their revenue increased from the password sharing ban crap, and it’s likely only like 1% of people used the 720p plan anyway. Netflix is ass but financially they’re chillin.
Yeah I don’t think anybody knows, but I think it’s only a matter of time and you can only rely on brand recognition and momentum for only so long before people realize that there are better services for them that don’t actively strip away the shows and films you love while treating you like an asshole. There’s just too much competition and it’s not stopping any time soon and a ton of people are actually paying a closer attention to their monthly fees and tightening the purse strings.
They probably won’t go out of business tomorrow or a year from now, but maybe 5 years and likely in the next 10. They just don’t have the same cultural cache as it did even a couple years ago. What did they even release that everybody knows about past The Tiger King and Squid Game which was years ago at this point other than like Wednesday. Better Call Saul ended last year. What do they have? Korean soaps, The Witcher without Henry Cavill and a creepy French movie about little girls twerking?
They have a ton of reality tv dogshit content that a ton of female subscribers love lol. Personally i hate it but i bet all of our gfs/wives love that shit. Unfortunately you should expect all of the streaming platforms to lean into that bullshit, especially with the writers strike. It will be interesting to see how many people cancel their plans once all of the good shows dry up due to the strike. We are going to be in a content desert for like 2 years at least.
Edit: lol why the actual fuck was I down voted? For criticizing Netflix? Huh??
People probably didn’t like your reality TV comment but it’s true my wife watches that shit lol
Why are people upset with that comment? A lot of girls and women watch reality TV. I thought that was obvious…Reality TV’s main target audience is females. I’m not trying to be disrespectful or anything lol. It’s just an objective fact.
Because this site is full of people who are very left wing and get upset at the most minor things lol it’s pretty funny, I get downvoted a lot it assures me that my opinion is correct and these idiots in here are living in la la land
I’d say a great time to catch up on older shows, but I know that’s both not popular and for some reason streaming services are removing older shows.
Netflix has some GREAT older shows. The problem is I have already watched most of them. The good thing is that I probably will watch many again (and again) every so often. They do still trickle in some new content worth watching. The very best thing about netflix and the reason I really hope they stick around is that the interface and presentation is totally USER oriented. Subtitles and skip intro/recap are top-notch (compare with amazon :/) and there are ZERO ads before/after/within the content. When I am already paying $, I hate being blasted with ads for other shows but it really burns my biscuits when I can’t skip that crap!
And what is the price? I think it’s like $16 CAD a month or so? So the price of a movie ticket and not even enough for a small popcorn. I find it a bit overreacting that people act like that’s way too expensive for what you get out of it. Used to be that I’d spend way more than that for a TV show season on DVD that I’d finish in a week.
I’m not saying this is a good move. But the folks vowing to only ever pirate because a month of content costs about as much as my local hourly min wage seems a bit much.
I still pay for NF and will probably keep paying for it in the foreseeable future. There is some local (Thai) content on it that my partner wants to watch. Content on any of the other services is too little to even bother with.
I pirate whatever looks interesting and isn’t on NF.
This is just going to push more people to piracy.
It’s funny how these things go.
Long ago, you would need to buy or rent your movies, because other options weren’t really very convenient or effective. Then the internet became fast enough for you to use DC++ and later torrents to get all the movies you would ever want to see. Next, streaming services became popular due to convenience, ease of use and affordable prices.
What’s going on today? Streaming services are increasing prices and reducing convenience. Seems like the balance of power is tipping again.
And meanwhile extremely convenient piracy options have cropped up, like, just as convenient as real services, if not more because all the content is in one place.
Hell many people even use paid piracy services.
Not me though, I’ll suck my dad before I pay for piracy.
I won’t pay for piracy as they if they share content they could share payment details.
Also volunteer to suck dad 👋🏼
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I love your username
Already done it for me
Looks like the basic tier was already shrinking anyways as people were opting for the ads option more and more, so they decided to nix it anyways to make their own lives easier.
Makes sense, its 1 less “mode” to support and that is a big deal for QA testing.
I really need to build a media server
Plex is really easy to run and use.
Cool I’ll try that. I just have to pull out an old Sony VAIO or something :D
