from the pay-more-for-less! dept
Yo ho
I’m not annoyed in the slightest by this. That said I’m also not a user
… and that said, I cancelled years ago after their 3rd price hike in 18 months (in Canada). been sailing the high seas ever since and feel absolutely no guilt whatsoever. I remember their excuse was always something like, “In order to continue to bring you top-shelf content, we must also continue to raise your monthly fee, while at the same time our original content becomes increasingly shitty and we systematically remove quality content from our library, leaving you with horrible Netfux originals as your only option”
I replaced netflix with Stremio + torrentio + realdebrid and couldn’t be happier. 90% stuff on netflix is crap anyways
I honestly don’t understand the visceral anger aimed at any business with a non-essential product offering.
It’s as if the individual complaining should be diagnosed with a variant of consumerism.
If you don’t like the pricing of a non-essential product, don’t buy it. But if you still desire said product to such an extreme that you pirate it, recognize your shortcomings.
This discussion would be wholly different if we were discussing healthcare, food, or any other necessity.
So, if you’re having an emotional reaction to a Netflix price increase, maybe you should get outside and touch some grass?
Does life really have to get ever shittier, just because a few people need more money?
Sure, everyone can live without Netflix. But some entertainment is good, not just individually, but also socially. Lots of public entertainment has died down during the pandemic. Now entertainment is getting more expensive while people already have too little money because everything else got too expensive.
Where does this end? When everyone can barely afford rent & food, and nothing else? After all, nothing else is essential, right?
I’d pirate meds if I needed them and had to deal with American pricing
Yeah I really don’t know what a fair price for streaming is. They can charge what they want and I’ll pay if I think it’s worth it.
My current pattern is to keep one or two streaming services at a time and when I run out of shows I drop one and add a different one.
People are disappointed though that the service used to be a much better value. It’s like most things that start out good and become “enshittified” as the service provider tries to extract more and more profit.
Users annoyed; do nothing.
Netflix users that subscribe year-round at this point either have lots of extra income, or very little going on upstairs.
Avast, ye mateys!
Netflix selection is crap anyway!
I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
the corporate noose is tightening on everyone; the rope will either fray and snap on drop or simply break our necks. I am sickened by the short-term likely outcome, because so few people are pulling out the knives and cutting at their tethers.
As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.
I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.
The sad reality is that the quality of modern BluRay releases has significantly declined. Sure the picture looks great, but they barely come with special features anymore. Also, the QA is atrocious. I buy a lot of UHD BluRays and ~30% of them come corrupted/damaged out of the box.
I really want physical media to become popular again so companies start actually putting in effort.
EDIT: I still love physical media. It’s pretty much the only way to own a copy of media anymore. I just wish it was as beloved as the DVD days.
Just read few posts above that Blue ray is done with Sony shutting down last factory for drives. I guess it’s time to stock drives 🤷♂️
Sony is done. Other companies still make them.
For now. But the trend is depressing and eventually it won’t be profitable for anybody and one day there will be no more disc drives to buy.
If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I’ll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It’s still just a spinning disc!
As long as they’re paying, they’re not annoyed enough. 🕳
Netflix has stopped being a product I am interested in a long time ago.
When they started out, they had a lot of stuff. These days, you’ll have to subscribe to 5 or 6 services to watch a lot. And every service makes their own shitty shows to attract more customers. And 99% of them suck, with the occasional succes.
Right now, Netflix is too expensive for what they offer. But clearly they think they can get away with raising proces, so I guess most people think it is worth it or simply don’t care.
Seems like the air smells quite… nautical.
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Can’t raise the subscription from 0.
I refuse to pay money for this, as the service continues to get worse, but the prices continue getting higher. They can blame it on data and hardware being more expensive, but that’s not our problem to solve
Download, me hardies yo ho!!!
