NetFlix Just Announced a 16%+ Price Increase.

Following is my channel setup: As of today, I'm committed to 2 premium services - NO MORE

Tubi FREE
Roku Channel FREE
Freevee FREE
Pluto TV FREE
Plex FREE
VUDU FREE

*Amazon Prime $11.58 Monthly with ads promised I'll pay for this. I use the $35 threshold for shipping.
*Netflix $ 7.99 Monthly with ads promised I'll pay for this. Will cancel when family members get tired of the ads.

Total $19.57 Monthly
 
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I only allow myself one streaming service at a time. Right now it is Netflix. I will probably use it through February and then in March I will cancel and sign up for another. If none of the other services have enough to tempt me then I will use free TV via my antenna to watch shows.

The costs of the subscription streaming services are out of control just like tipping is. I fight back by not using the services very often. A while back I read about some actress getting over $200,000 an episode for some show. Not for the season, but for each episode Somebody else will have to pay that bill.
 
I have Netflix, this is irritating....it takes forever to find a movie that I'm interested in or haven't already seen.... I probably only watch 2 movies a month, I may try something different.
 
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I have 100's DVD and Blu-ray Concerts / Woodstock that I seldom Watch. Broadcast HDTV is all we watch now.
There is prime, Starz on Roku and other movies on 100's of channels. We tend to B&W old movies a lot.
Quit going out to movies around 2015. Lil woman makes great popcorn and pizza's Yea! Grand kids don't
seem to care about movies much either, they get on their Cell stuff a lot and Internet fun apps. It appears
fun Videos, sssiperwolf (Karen), Video shorts, fun stuff, that sort of captivate for them.

Kids seem to really enjoy their connections and at home life much better than I did in the Mid 19th.
 
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Jackie23 said:
I have Netflix, this is irritating....it takes forever to find a movie that I'm interested in or haven't already seen.... I probably only watch 2 movies a month, I may try something different.
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They have a huge inventory, but not much really good stuff. I stream from a variety of sources, but only one at a time, with months in between where I don't sign up for any source. If one is offering a series I "need" to see, I have once or twice signed up for a 7 day free trial and then dropped it after a binge watch. Right now I'm not my second month of not streaming from any source. I've got a large private collection with my favorite movies and TV series. They have created a system that makes it as expensive as possible.

I sometimes buy a movie I want to see from ebay. It's cheaper than streaming a whole month and having sort through a bunch if junk to see that movie.
 
Nathan said:
What? They are trying real hard to lose customers...or bleed them to death. Maybe time to cancel subscription in protest.
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I screw with their system all the time. I think most people just like something to watch, even if it's not that interesting. Or possibly, they don't care about costs. For me, it's mostly my way of protesting (as if they care).:mad:
 
I used to piggyback onto my son's Netflix account but of course Netflix put a stop to multiple logins on an account.

I didn't watch it much at all. Most modern movies I started soon lost my interest.

So now I stream nothing and watch YouTube both music and other videos that get my attention.

Oh, I do watch the (antenna) TV at certain times of day. Judge Judy, Two and a Half Men, Seinfeld, and the old standby....Match Game reruns from the 1970s.

TV is best consumed in moderation. Some days I go all day without it.

Some times I put on the jazz radio station.

I discovered a crude old means of entertainment...reading books. I've got books all over the house and never read any of them. I've found I'm more of a snippet consumer of books. Read until my short attention span runs out and put a place marker there and come back when the mood strikes me.

And oh the joy of posting then highlighting in bold and italics random words with no particular reason for emphasis!
 
I went with the cheaper $6.99 a month with ads plan the last time they raised their prices. They said there would be "just a few short" ads. And at the start that's the way it was. But they have been slowly increasing both the frequency and legths of their ads, I suppose thinking that no onw will notice. Also they have begun to add more and more things to their list of features that you can't watch with the cheaper plan.
 
Trade said:
I went with the cheaper $6.99 a month with ads plan the last time they raised their prices. They said there would be "just a few short" ads. And at the start that's the way it was. But they have been slowly increasing both the frequency and legths of their ads, I suppose thinking that no onw will notice. Also they have begun to add more and more things to their list of features that you can't watch with the cheaper plan.
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I noticed that too. Some of the movies that are "new and popular" have a little lock on them. If u want to watch them, you have to upgrade your plan. The ads are getting longer and more frequent. Sometimes they are mid sentence; sometimes even mid word, and it cuts to an ad. In fact every form of social media has an ad inserted and "suggested posts". Leave me alone.
 
Once the tariffs are imposed on China and Mexico, we're going to see a lot of price increases.

We'll keep our Netflix and Prime Video subscriptions — even with the price increases — since those are our main forms of entertainment and we use their services pretty much every day.

The only other option is to pay for each individual movie through YouTube TV. That might be a viable option for people who only watch an occasional movie, but for us, it would probably be more expensive.

There are ways to watch movies for free, but they're not exactly legal, and you have to hook up a computer to your TV since the movies are streamed on websites. The audio wouldn't be as good, for one thing, but that is an option for those on a low budget. F*ck 'em.
 
HermitHogan said:
They just came off a record setting quarter, possibly due to the Tyson and that other guy fight.
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Did anyone else think that was a joke?

Taxes to stay in the spend more n we have mode. Taraffs, Taxes on everything, State sales taxes +10% & no control of it at all.
 
JustDave said:
They have a huge inventory, but not much really good stuff. I stream from a variety of sources, but only one at a time, with months in between where I don't sign up for any source. If one is offering a series I "need" to see, I have once or twice signed up for a 7 day free trial and then dropped it after a binge watch. Right now I'm not my second month of not streaming from any source. I've got a large private collection with my favorite movies and TV series. They have created a system that makes it as expensive as possible.

I sometimes buy a movie I want to see from ebay. It's cheaper than streaming a whole month and having sort through a bunch if junk to see that movie.
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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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