NetFlix Just Announced a 16%+ Price Increase.

Jackie23 said:
A few times I have bought one movie at a time. but only on Youtube....I just discovered an app that I didn't know about that would help find movies to stream called Justwatch, free or buy one at a time and there were several streaming channels listed.
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I have Amazon Prime and Netflix. On occasion will do a "trial" if another streaming service offers something I find interesting. I have this aversion to commercials, so will pay whatever. Wish I could get DH to get rid of the $120. a month cable channels, but he has three or four he watches on that and watches reruns of said programs at will. I just wish he'd stop complaining about commercials; don't complain if you aren't going to change anything to fix the problem?

He is in one space from 3pm to 8pm, I am in another whenever am on this computer, and HE wears a headset so I am not disgusted with the noise and stupid commercials he endures. We can turn and look at each other if we want to connect visually. At times he texts me: "I love you". One particular evening he texted me THREE times "I love you.." just to interrupt my writing, so I texted him a picture of my middle finger in a certain vulgar gesture, which made him laugh out loud, spilling his popcorn bowl, because he knows darn well that word OR gesture is not in my lexicon.
 
I get Prime Video through my Prime account. I tried Netflix for a few months but it wasn't compelling content and I dropped it. How many dubbed Eastern European films ("Netflix Originals") can you watch?

Even PV has gone down the toilet of late and I might unbundle it if I could.

Dropped cable TV around 2011.
 

After their last increase my monthly bill went from $10.96 to $16.52. And I thought that was ridiculous, especially since the service got worse! I started having trouble streaming it on my Roku; it did a lot of buffering and the rewinds would cause my Roku to reboot. I stream using several other platforms and none of the others do that. Plus their content isn't as interesting as it used to be.

So I vowed, just on GP, that I would no longer keep Netflix for most of the year. Instead, I subscribed for 2 or 3 months. Now that they have raised the prices again and there's only a couple of series I'm waiting for them to air, I'll keep it for a month (two tops) and binge watch those shows.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
After their last increase my monthly bill went from $10.96 to $16.52. And I thought that was ridiculous, especially since the service got worse! I started having trouble streaming it on my Roku; it did a lot of buffering and the rewinds would cause my Roku to reboot. I stream using several other platforms and none of the others do that. Plus their content isn't as interesting as it used to be.

So I vowed, just on GP, that I would no longer keep Netflix for most of the year. Instead, I subscribed for 2 or 3 months. Now that they have raised the prices again and there's only a couple of series I'm waiting for them to air, I'll keep it for a month (two tops) and binge watch those shows.
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Netflix seems to have a problem if you have a lot of movies in your watchlist. I think it runs out of memory. Apparently, you can increase the memory with a micro SD card. I'm going to look into that.
 
It's not the $100 payments, it's the $5 & $10 unchecked auto-pay charges that eat away at your budget,
 
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HermitHogan said:
Netflix seems to have a problem if you have a lot of movies in your watchlist. I think it runs out of memory. Apparently, you can increase the memory with a micro SD card. I'm going to look into that.
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Since I prefer to watch movies on the T.V. using Roku, an SD card wouldn't help. I hope you find that it works for you.
 
I cut the cable 26 years ago. I don't like nor do I need Netflix. I think most of their movies are geared to young people going through puberty.

These days I have my ROKU and never pay for anything except the old TV series that I order from Amazon.

I don't like advertising because most of them make fun of the viewers intelligence! (They are geared to "low lives.")
 
I cut the cable back in 2012 (Xfinity/Comcast) @ the time I just had basic, nothing special @ $135 (new monthly rate). Cut Facebook back in 2016 (only free one), & cut Amazon Prime in 2022 (Use $35 bundle shipping). Soon it will be NetFlix, which leaves me with 6 Free services. Never looked back or felt neglected. I like Tubi as much or more than NetFlix.

I have a library card & free account that enables me to get enough movies to watch for free. Have lifetime DSL service @ $45 monthly.
 
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Packerjohn said:
I cut the cable 26 years ago. I don't like nor do I need Netflix. I think most of their movies are geared to young people going through puberty.
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Netflix has a lot of stuff they produce on their own. But it's like they have a relatively small staff of writers and technicians that work off one set of algorithms, so everything has a certain redundant sameness about it. They seldom go outside the box and creativity suffers. But they have a lot of quantity doing it this way. There's not a lot that grabs my attention. Once in awhile, they have scored a hit, but mostly it's all rather bla. I think it's geared to people that just need something to watch.
 
Spend over an hour going through the free movies offered on the 6 'free' movie service's I signed up for without looking once at NetFlix or Prime. Still more to go through. Justwatch has every service I subscribe to. This will be my last post about this subject, I'm going to quit beating this dead horse.
 
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gilead said:
Spend over an hour going through the free movies offered on the 6 'free' movie service's I signed up for without looking once at NetFlix or Prime. Still more to go through. Justwatch has every service I subscribe to. This will be my last post about this subject, I'm learning to quit beating that dead horse.
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I for one, welcome your thoughts on this. I checked it out. I'm not a big fan of pay per view, and some of the block busters approach the Ten dollar range, although they are still new, and I'm thinking the price will drop to the five dollar range. I don't spend much on streaming. I'll stream a service for a month or two, and then go without for awhile.

I haven't compared pay per view of a small number of hot productions compared to two months of streaming with mostly filler. It might cost about the same. I've book marked Justwatch, and I'll be keeping an eye on it. I still buy DVDs but never when they first come out. I hardly spend more than Ten dollars, and somtimes as little as three. That costs about the same as a streaming service with a lot of "bla."

My system involves a bit of creativity mixed with protest over high costs of non essentials. A hundred dollars a month on several streaming services seems like madness to me. I could easily afford it, but I refuse.
 
gilead said:
Spend over an hour going through the free movies offered on the 6 'free' movie service's I signed up for without looking once at NetFlix or Prime. Still more to go through. Justwatch has every service I subscribe to. This will be my last post about this subject, I'm going to quit beating this dead horse.
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Thanks. I downloaded the app. I think it will be handy.
 
When our service provider comes up for renewal, I’m going to go over it more carefully. There’s nothing in writing, just a rep listing various options, very quickly. It’s frustrating having to get one package just for one or two shows.
 
HermitHogan said:
That's what I was referring to. You can increase the memory in your Roku box.
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Wow, I never knew that! Thank you for the info. I like learning something new everyday. However, I have the Roku Express and I don't see anyway to insert an SD card. I've been thinking about getting a different model. I don't think the Express is that great. Sometimes I lose audio for a couple of seconds and have to rewind. I've had two other Roku boxes in the past and neither of them did that.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Wow, I never knew that! Thank you for the info. I like learning something new everyday. However, I have the Roku Express and I don't see anyway to insert an SD card. I've been thinking about getting a different model. I don't think the Express is that great. Sometimes I lose audio for a couple of seconds and have to rewind. I've had two other Roku boxes in the past and neither of them did that.
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My mistake. That was the advice given to me by ChatGPT. Sometimes it just makes up crap. :mad:

It also says that if too many apps are installed on the Roku device, that can cause performance issues with Netflix. I'm going to remove all the apps that I don't use and see if that makes any difference.
 
Roku devices are like phones. There is working memory and there is secondary storage. On some models external tertiary storage can be added via SD cards, but only to partially extend secondary storage where channels/apps and settings and such are stored while not in use.

Primary (working) memory can't be expanded.

Both OS and app bloat over time are problematic, just as on phones. It isn't even just a memory issue, they get hungrier for CPU and GPU power update-by-update as well.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
The only thing that has been on Netflix (that I am aware of) that I would like was a TV Series called the Americans, and Cindy knew that so when she saw the full series box set, she gave it to me for Christmas.
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The Queens Gambit was the one mind blower for me on Netflix. I found DVDs of the series and bought them for myself. The cost was equal to three months of streaming on Netflix. They were hard to find, at least when I bought them.
 
I just cancelled Netflix. I was considering it for a while since it seems like their content quality has dropped significantly over the years. When they announced a price increase I dropped them. I find a lot of good content between Hulu and Tubi.
 
JustDave said:
The cost was equal to three months of streaming on Netflix.
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I hear ya about the cost. I have a collection of DVDs which the total I have left is unclear because my kids totally botched the move to Edison. I try not to think how much invested in all those DVDs. (But I was in the hospital, and couldn't do anything about it.) Then about a month ago one of my two 8T Seagate USB drives bit the dust and I lost 7,000 .MP4 copies of TV Series Episodes and movies from my DVDs.

Most of my factory made DVDs are here, but at least two thirds of the burner copies I made got left behind, and I have yet to do an inventory to see what I still have copies of. As a general rule, I buy a DVD, I copy it to a burner DVD or an .MP4 file, then put the original away. I would say that at least 85% or 90% of my collection have only been played or copied once or twice. I almost exclusively watch the copies. There are a few that I can't copy, so if I want to watch them, it's the factory DVD or not at all.

Before I got Covid, I has some 12,000 TV Series Episodes and 1,600 movies. I have no idea how much is left.
 
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