Netflix

[Chippy_Tea]

Have clamped down on password sharing and have noticed a jump in subscribers, I guess it's not a coincidence they have decide to increase prices, I won't be subscribing again.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Here are the current prices.


Ad-free “basic” subscription - £7.99 per month (not available to new subscribers)
was £6.99 per month. You can watch, with no adverts, on one device at a time. Downloads are permitted.

Ad-subscription - £4.99 per month
You can watch, with adverts, on one device at a time with no downloads available.

Standard subscription - £10.99 per month
You can watch in HD and on two devices at a time.

Premium subscription - £17.99 per month
was £15.99 per month. You can watch in Ultra HD where available, on four devices at a time.

 

[Druss]

They're all getting a little money grabbing aren't they?

I subscribe to Amazon prime (mainly for the deliveries but also the video) and Disney+ (pretty much entirely for the Marvel and Star Wars stuff...yeh, I'm a huge geek!) but they're both sending me emails on the regular about upcoming price changes for different formats.

I'll happily flit between streaming services for specific stuff, I get a month's worth of whoever is showing Wimbledon every year, but it just seems like a huge slap in the face when an increasing percentage of the content is ads.

I think most of us here are old enough to remember there only being four TV channels, two of which were inundated with adverts, but it wasn't intrusive and brash like it is nowadays...ah, a simpler time...

 

[Rodcx500z]

4 channels lucky buggers i remember when there was only 2

 

[Clint]

Only that my boys watch stuff on it I'd get rid.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I think most of us here are old enough to remember there only being four TV channels, two of which were inundated with adverts, but it wasn't intrusive and brash like it is nowadays...ah, a simpler time...

I have a Freeview box and a *free-sat box both record and we tend to record everything we like and watch it when we want to rather than at a set time, this also means we never watch adverts, there are hundreds of channels and we still only watch BBC, ITV and occasionally channel 4 and 5, too many channels showing too many adverts and utter dross

*We bought the Free-Sat box when we stopped subscribing to Sky as it uses the Sky dish.

This is my Free-Sat box mine is HD not the 4K one in the video but they work in exactly the same way.

 

[dad_of_jon]

4 channels lucky buggers i remember when there was only 2

2 channels??? - luxury! - I remember when there was -1 channel and we had to imagine what a channel was.

 

[Clint]

I can remember when the only channel I knew about was when I was shown a map and it had the English channel on it.

 

[dad_of_jon]

I can remember when the only channel I knew about was when I was shown a map and it had the English channel on it.

English channel? - Luxury! we only had a stream that only had water in it 1 day a year. We had to lick the ground hoping we'd get a drop of water.

 

[hoppyscotty]

Actually I find I watch nothing but the various internet subscription channels and watch very little normal terrestrial TV channels. I would much rather ditch my BBC licence fee since I hardly ever watch it.

Not sure I agree with the premise that a company clamping down on people circumventing paying for their service and stealing from them is a bad thing that you should be angry about. If you want to watch Netflix pay for it...think the deterioration of the quality of music in the music industry mostly thanks to the demise of people actually paying for it is a lesson to everyone...if you want good **** then you have to be prepared to pay for it. Want cheap beer, you got it...it's called Carling. Want something half decent with actual flavour then you have to pony up a bit more.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I tend to spend more time trawling through trying to find something to watch than actually watching something. The kids like it though and it's worth it for that.

 

[Clint]

It's like a lot of things...make it expensive and people will rip it off...it happened with videos,dvds, cds. People will find a way to break anything....games consoles,TV subscriptions, satellite broadcast. Take those PlayStation or xbox games...are they really worth £70? Or whatever they cost? Especially when they might get sales into 100s of millions?

 

[aolcot]

I don't think the netflix prices are that bad, I happily pay for the standard package because mainly for the kids to watch but i'll often grab a film from it on a friday/saturday. Normally I just pick one from the top 10 to save hours of browsing!

I do have freesat but never watch it... Most of my tv time is actually spent on youtube and follow dozens of channels. I do pay for premium though to get rid of the adverts.