Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49
Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49
If you already have the $9.99 Basic plan, you can keep it.
I've been putting off having a local copy of the series and movies I watch because I still can access them quickly and cheaply enough in some streaming service, I think it's time to plan ramping up my selfhosted setup.
Netflix will be losing to a competitor with an ad-free tier that costs $0.00
The next step is for the ad-tier to go to $7.99, $8.99, $9.99
The strategy was always to make the ad-free options more valuable by comparison.
In no more than 36 months, the ad-tier will cost the $9.99 it was intended to replace, making Netflix having successfully added ads to the base tier, for no discount.
Maybe they noticed that most people don’t want the most expensive Plan if they are not allowed to share anymore
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That extra money will go to the writers and actors right?
An alternative to self-hosting and piracy, if there's something you really want to watch, just buy a month, then immediately cancel the subscription to whatever service has that show, after all the episodes has aired. I usually spend between $30-$50 in total on streaming services in a year this way, and as a principle, I call it "buying a month" as opposed to "subscribing." Right now I'm waiting for Secret Wars to finish on Disney+. Will probably watch the last few MCU movies and some other stuff during the same month so that's probably up to 10 shows/movies for $whatever-a-month-goes-for these days. Might do a month of Netflix later in the autumn, as I have a few things I want to watch there now that didn't quite justify buying on their own. And no, I very rarely rewatch anything, so I don't really worry about loosing access to them in the future.
All I can say is Netflix at 12.99 was a tough sell. That was the rate hike that made me drop them. 15.49 forget it.
When Netflix was the ticket and my sub was 8.99 some years ago, I didn't pirate anything because I didn't need to. I'd have to pay a hundred a month due to the fracturing and inflation of streaming services now, and I still wouldn't get everything. I didn't wanna pirate, but the industry backed me into a corner.
They're just driving us to self hosted content quicker. Honestly if you can afford a NAS like a Synology or an Asustor, setting up Plex is so easy.
Some edits to this comment:
- It's surprisingly easy to do this versus most other custom configurations. You don't even have to build a PC and setup holds your hand.
- This is NOT including obtaining content, I was simply saying "Getting Plex running".
- There are other configs you may need to get Plex the way you want, but watching your content on your local network effectively is complete once you complete the standard setup.
Enshittification 101. Usenet is cheaper, torrent indexers can be free. Remember, "Information wants to be free", also remember the 5th of November...
We wanted to axe one of our two streaming services next month. This makes the choice pretty easy. The netflix catalogue sucks balls anyway
Oh well, there's not much worth watching on netflix anyways. I hardly ever use the free account that came with my cell phone plan.
Getting to the point where they aren't worth the money, it is one increase away from being a dead loss of a service
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Well, there is also this news https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-up-q2-earnings-1235673960/ showing that apparently many people just pay up to keep their access.