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Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month"
New submitter Burphytez (3625571) writes with this excerpt of a Reuters story, as carried by the Chicago Tribune: "Video streaming service Netflix Inc said it intends to raise the monthly subscription price for new customers by $1 or $2 a month to help the company buy more movies and TV shows and improve service for its 48 million global subscribers. Investors welcomed the announcement by Netflix, which had suffered from a consumer exodus and stock plunge after it announced an unpopular price increase in July 2011. The company's shares jumped 6.7 percent in after-hours trading to $371.97, after the company released plans for a price hike and posted a rise in first-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations."
I guess they found a way to cover the costs of their deal with Comcast.
While as a consumer I'll bemoan paying more, the reality is, to deliver quality content they need to find the price sweet spot. It's still way below the cost of cable TV, so I don't think it will hurt them in the long run.
Yes, it seems like it will mainly benefit shareholders, but with the lack of ads and low price, even after the increase, who can really complain?
1. Provide reruns as streamable video.
2. Raise price of rerun to new customers
3 ????
4 Profit.
Investors welcomed the announcement by Netflix, which had suffered from a consumer exodus and stock plunge after it announced an unpopular price increase in July 2011.
Well, the first price increase cost us customers so the stock plunged. What will make the stock soar? A price increase!
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I don't mind paying and extra buck or two, if you can improve the content. I'm getting a little tired of movies dropping out of my queue, not to mention multiples seasons of TV shows (some of my TV shows have went from having every season available to just a few in the last year). I'm glad you got House and Cards and all, but what you really need to focus on is your meat-and-potatoes movie and TV show content.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
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I'm not sure there's going to be an exodus due to this. Who's the competitor offering the old price? What's better for access to these movies/shows? Why won't the viewer notice the new-to-Netflix options coming?
I don't think you could compare Netflix to 'basic' cable. For me basic cable is unwatchable - you have excessive amount of commercials and no on demand service. Sure, you can get all of this out of cable, but at that point you are no longer on 'basic'.
I don't understand why everyone gets so upset when Netflix talks about raising its prices by a couple of dollars per month. I've been a subscriber for several years, and even with the limited selection available in Canada, the lack of advertising and unlimited on demand nature makes it worth way more than the equivalent cost of a few days of cable/satellite.
Sometimes you have to vote with your wallet, even if that means overpaying a little bit for a product/service that you see the potential in and want to succeed. The content producers will follow the money (eventually). If you're not willing to pay an additional $24 per year, then how badly do you really want to see more content on Netflix?
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?
I'm a Verizon customer, and Netflix streaming has become less useful to me since the whole monopoly shakedown business happend.
I'm willing to pay a few dollars more per month to Netflix, if it returns streaming to its previous glory on Verizon.
Bonus points if they use the money to buy a law that makes being a Verizon executive a capital offense.
I'll be in the first wave myself.
If you're going to quit, you must be an existing customer, which means you won't see a rate increase. Are you going to quit as a statement of principle?
Then the investors are stupid, because their about to see another exodus due to an unpopular price hike
First off, it's "they're".
Secondly, I'm not going anywhere because there's simply not anywhere else I can rent DVD's. My stupid fellow citizens quit going to our local video stores, so now there's exactly *one* way to rent DVD's, and that's Netflix.
I don't respond to AC's.
>Who's the competitor offering the old price?
Amazon Prime.
Netflix is cheap, don't get me wrong -- however, is it money needed for more content, or money needed to ward off extortion from Comcast? After all, it doesn't matter how much content you have if you can't deliver it to your audience.
Also, any chance of paying for what I want to watch at reasonable prices? The ultimate conclusion of "price hike for more content" is $80/mo so I can get Disney content for my kids and a whole swath of shows I don't care about -- hmm, sounds like current cable. Or is the whole "a la carte" thing a just a dream?
Why not use those increased profits to provide better service and buy more movies and TV shows?
Oh right, those profits belong to our wealthy investors. So we have to stick it to the little guy to make them happy.
You're forgetting Redbox. Plus, there's Amazon's own video-on-demand service.
There's nothing stupid about abandoning local video stores. What kind of moron would pay $5 to rent a movie, plus ridiculous late fees? With Netflix at $8/month for all-you-can-view online, or maybe double that for online + 1 DVD checkout, it's a no-brainer. Or you can go to Redbox.
And give me current stuff.
And if they actually follow through on improving their library, it will be worth a buck or two extra per month. I'll give them a few months to improve things. If they don't improve, then it will be time to look for alternatives.
Maybe the citizens will revolt if the Comcast/TWC merger is approved. Then we can get our Country back.... nah.
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I just got a Prime trial subscription, mostly for streaming movies. I find the interface to be more confusing than Netflix, and the closed captioning isn't as easy to read. I've also had issues in which Full Screen will switch it to my primary monitor, so I have to use the Pop-Out viewer. Also, the price of Prime just went up recently as well which may be one of the reasons Netflix is more comfortable with raising their rates too.
Redbox has a smattering of mouth breather blockbusters. It's no substitute for Netflix any more than a 7-11 is a substitute for a grocery store.
Video-on-demand on Netflix isn't much more comprehensive than a Redbox vending machine.
That was my point. There's no substitute for Netflix DVD rental.
I don't respond to AC's.
If you think Netflix is too expensive then get off the couch and go outside for a walk instead.
Then the investors are stupid, because their about to see another exodus due to an unpopular price hike ... and I'll be in the first wave myself.
Did you read anything past the title? You know, like the first sentence of the summary. The way I read it, only new customers will see the rate increase. So unless you aren't currently a customer you won't be affected.
Well, they gotta pay for that deal with Comcast to stop throttling their streaming service somehow.
I wouldn't mind paying $20-$40 a month if they had more popular old and new tv shows and movies released at once but I think the increase has to do with paying verizon and comcast's double dipping schemes. What netflix would do is shift movies and tv shows from other regions to the u.s, it has nothing to do with licensing, netflix like so many other corporations always likes to screw the u.s consumer because they can. They can run netflix html5 on chrome and other linux devices but they can't run it on the linux desktop, bullshit, and i doubt it has to anything to do with the content owners. A corporation will always be a corporation fucking over the u.s consumer.
The previous price hike would have made more sense if they had announced it as "allowing more content for current subscribers" rather than "a latte or two difference".
As this has not historically been a priority, it will take time before I can decide that they will actually act in agreement with my interests. Namely, will they produce more "House of Cards"-like dramas, or will they actually branch out and find uniquely satisfying content that appeals to a broad set of tastes.
Many posters seem to have missed the part of the story that said the rate increase applies to new customers only. I suppose that some existing Netflix subscribers may quit as a result of this based on general principles or a feeling that existing subscribers will eventually feel the bite, but this is not the same sort of general price increase that caused people to drop the service in droves last time around. Personally, I don't much care either way; I like the service, and $2.00 a month is 'way below the noise floor.
it's not supposed to be for recent releases. not at that price point
$8 - $10 a month you get an awesome deal on catalog content that's also on demand
I don't understand why everyone gets so upset when Netflix talks about raising its prices by a couple of dollars per month. I've been a subscriber for several years, and even with the limited selection available in Canada, the lack of advertising and unlimited on demand nature makes it worth way more than the equivalent cost of a few days of cable/satellite.
Sometimes you have to vote with your weenur, even if that means overpaying a little bit for a product/service that you see the potential in and want to succeed. The content producers will follow the money (eventually). If you're not willing to pay an additional $24 per year, then how badly do you really want to see more content on Netflix?
Redbox has a smattering of mouth breather blockbusters. It's no substitute for Netflix any more than a 7-11 is a substitute for a grocery store.
Video-on-demand on Netflix isn't much more comprehensive than a Redbox vending machine.
That was my point. There's no substitute for Netflix DVD rental.
True; I use Redbox to get movies for my 12-14 year old kids when we're on a road trip. This weekend, there was Frozen, which is actually pretty good, and then the only other thing we could find which was passable was Despicable Me. The great unwashed out there are really watching crap.
Wow! there's a surprising number of comments along the lines of: "eh, i'd pay a couple more bucks a month.." I expected a more negative response from this cynical audience. (even though, that's pretty much echoing my sentiments)
They aren't even saying they are going to raise the cost for existing subscribers, but now they know that we would probably just go ahead and pay it. I'm thinking this is mostly just to get a feel for what consumers would be willing to pay without freaking out.
Are you going to quit as a statement of principle?
Yes, because this won't remain 'just for new customers' for very long at all.
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I don't understand why everyone gets so upset when Netflix talks about raising its prices by a couple of dollars per month. I've been a subscriber for several years, and even with the limited selection available in Canada, the lack of advertising and unlimited on demand nature makes it worth way more than the equivalent cost of a few days of cable/satellite.
Sometimes you have to vote with your weenur, even if that means overpaying a little bit for a product/service that you see the potential in and want to succeed. The content producers will follow the money (eventually). If you're not willing to pay an additional $24 per year, then how badly do you really want to see more content on Netflix?
Compared to Netflix. Amazon Prime is a joke.
If you think there is only one way to watch 'rented' movies, then you are really pretty stupid. Amazon Prime cost less and is far more useful as it includes more than just movies.
As for the spelling mistake ... you must lead a really sad life.
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Exactly. The Consumer/Customer pays for everything and this price increase is one proof.
Now, who should "we" be angry with? The TelCos who charge NetFlix to use their "pipes" to ship content to their customers or NetFlix who bought "special" service from the greedy bastards? (Opps, I guess you know how I feel about this.)
No one is leaving Netflix over a fucking $2 price hike.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Here in Canada, I don't think we get anywhere near as much content as the US. As an existing Netflix customer I'd pay an extra buck or two a month to get access to the US content.
You think? I'm not, but that's a $24/yr increase. Look at the shit Amazon took over a $20/yr hike on Prime.
Why would there be an exodus, current subscribers are not having their prices changed, only new subscribers. This is a move to counter binge subscribers in order to smooth out their revenue. In fact, if Netflix wanted to be brilliant about it, the would offer their Xth month free with a $1-2 reduction in your subscription cost. Basically, you're "paying forward" the extra $1-2 towards a month subscription that you only get if you stay subscribed long enough. That would essentially provide the exact same lower costs for long term subscribers.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
You mean you don't like Generic Superhero Movie 2?? I thought it was even better than the original!!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Investors only care about the quick buck, how to milk the shares before selling off to ruin / kill a company.
The stock market today is busted, period.
Big investors should shut the fuck up and let the company they believed in so much, to do things as they plan, rather than butting in and demanding they do stupid shit for a quick profit.
I have Prime for the shipping, but the streaming is pretty terrible. You can start watching a series on Prime, then after a few episodes to get you hooked, they'll want something like $3 an episode in addition to the Prime membership. With Netflix, there's never an attempt to add fees for particular shows or movies.
So why leave when there is no price rise or change for them which will just look like noise to Netflix instead of leaving with other subscribers when the price goes up for everyone and making it clear to them that they lost business because of that change?
I don't know. Netflix was $8 then $10. If it goes to $12/month then that will be about six dollars for every movie I watch. At that price I'd rather just buy a little extra weed and play WordFeud.
And in fact I already made that choice and dropped Netflix six or eight months ago. Their streaming selection had dwindled to the point where I couldn't even find any science documentaries anymore. What am I going to do then? Watch a superhero movie? No thanks. There are torrents for that. I had Netflix for three or four years but it just stopped delivering value.
Why would you want to rent awful 480p DVDs when you can stream 1080p? DVDs have been obsolete for years now. Your fellow citizens weren't stupid to stop going to video stores, they moved on. You were left behind, and now oddly call the more advanced people "stupid."
Some lunatics will. People lose their minds over trivial changes, and make bad decisions all the time.
In other news, the price of some other product just went up 7%, and yet another product's price went up 12%. For techies, that's really important, because ... well, because ... um. You know.
They've said it would be phased in for existing customers after a 'generous waiting period.' Personally, even if it was instant, I don't mind a price increase from $8 to $10 or so - especially if it means more shows. If people leave over this that's there prerogative, but I wont pretend I'm not judging, especially when the other legal option is still 5 to 6 times more expensive. Heck, even going the illegal route: streaming from netflix is still immensely more convenient than torrenting shows to watch.
That said, I don't think this was the way to go. A tiered payment system would have been better. I'd gladly pay for a premium service that had more recent shows and such. But then, selling streaming tv is hardly my area of expertise.
They also announced that prices will increase for existing customers "soon". You can even suss that out of the article linked here:
Gould said the company is approaching 50 million global subscribers, and a $1-2 price increase would raise $600 million to $1.2 billion.
50M subscribers x12 months x$1 is $600M
50M subscribers x12 months x$2 is $1.2B
Other articles made this implication clear by quoting the rest of Netflix's statement.
Well, last time Netflix raised prices that was followed immediately by a drastic (drastic!) reduction in shows available for streaming. So I don't think there is any good reason to connect higher prices with greater selection -- the evidence suggests the opposite correlation.
Because you just can't give enough to Comcast.
I regard journalists, even those at Fox News, as higher than actors and hollywood middle-men, like netflix.
At least journalists are trying to tell *real* stories, twisted or not.
The sooner they render themselves obsolete the better.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Because of your awful ISPs in the US demanding money from netflix because they refuse to upgrade their network, for which they were paid by the government to do, isn't it.
I guess I'm grandfathered in at the current rate - for now. If the increase for new customers is not met with much resistance I suspect it will be rolled out to everyone at some point. But for me, it's worth the cost. When I flip on cable I don't see a whole lot worth watching. Outside of sports and maybe the evening news they don't have much to offer me.
With Netflix I can almost always find something good. I love that I can watch an entire TV series whenever I want without commercials. I can pause it if someone comes to the door or the phone rings. Sure, I can DVR shows from cable and watch them later but even then I have to skip over so many commercials it takes away from my enjoyment. It's not uncommon to see 5 or 6 commercials in a row. A typical 1 hour show might contain a little over 40 minutes of actual programming. Probably 25-33 % is advertising. That's a lot of wasted time.
So I'm going to stay with Netflix. The combination of quality programming with the flexibility and time savings add up to a winner to me.
And the price of Prime didn't just go up a little, it went up a lot.
Then there's inflation to account for too. I'm sure Netflix' cost has gone up over the past few years.
Yup - noticed that too. Or they don't have every episode of a given series available to stream. I had to make a choice and decided to keep Netflix and ditch Prime.
10% a year increases pretty common in cable
We use Redbox. They have a lot of blockbuster movies. I don't see it as a replacement for Netflix, but an enhancement. There is no way Hollywood is going to let Netflix show Gravity any time soon, but I rented the Bluray at Redbox for $1.50. There are a lot of Redbox kiosks in our area and their website knows what is in each one at any given moment, so we have a good selection.
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Netflix doesn't have all titles available to stream. I have even had them pull streaming vids to DVD. I assume this is to do with how they license the titles.
That's like saying Cable TV isn't so bad, because it's better than Hitler.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I look at what I could get for the cost of a Netflix bill, vs what I can get for the cost of a [censored, first rule of [censored, first rule of [censored, first rule of [censored, first rule of [censored, first rule of [censored, first rule of STACK OVERFLOW
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I guess what I'm saying, though, is that while Netflix is the cheapest thing out there, even slightly cheaper than you-know-what, it's not nearly as good as you-know-what. Pirates have access to more content, the bitrates are better (not limited by realtime conditions; streaming is just plain shitty tech), and it just plain works better. It's 2014 and there still isn't a reverse-engineered Netflix client yet, so that Netflix can be integrated with the rest of our content; that's insane, not to mention inconvenient.
Amazon prime sucks, IMHO. I will however, use Amazon to rent movies. They do have a truly deep selection, it's like walking around an old blockbuster and browsing the $1 movies, but you pay $3.99, :`(
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For stuff that I'd care that much about the image, I wouldn't. I'd rent blurays. For the stuff that I want to watch that's not on bluray, it's usually not streamable, and if it is, it's not 1080 because they transferred the source at that resolution, it's upconverted.
I can only get 4G LTE. Streaming 1080p is certainly possible but it will not be very cheap.
Customer: "A buck or two? That seems reasonable."
Board: "Ah! Clearly we're well beneath the breaking point of what the market will bear. Now that we have addicted the media viewing populace with our cheap drugs and gotten everybody into the habit of looking no further for substitutes, we shall now move on to Phase 2: Jack up the price every six months until the customer base BLEEDS!"
"HA HA HA HA HA!"
"Phase 3, in case you're wondering, will be to create bundle 'deals' and anti-competitive media lock-ins so nobody else can distribute the same media as us, reduce service until people our customer base is pulling their hair out in fury for their $69 monthly fee! Ha ha ha!"
"Why? Because we're evil, and it's fun to hurt people and rip them off. Suckers. Look at them all. Stupid fuckers! We abuse them and they still can't stop using our services. Ha Ha Ha!"
It ranks up there with 2 for 1 sale on sponges at HEB.
That's not even remotely close to reality. Television costs more because of sports and profits. Infrastructure is paid for on it's own, more than once in some cases. I actually get a cheaper rate with television than without. Subsidizing sports viewers is the single greatest cost driver in upward costs for television. Infrastructure they get paid for from the government, from the television subscribers, and the internet subscribers. Stop making excuses you know nothing about. The infrastructure is paid for.
Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime are the big competition. Netflix seems to come out slightly ahead when balancing it out for most people, plus those three are roughly similar in price. Change the pricing and the balance shifts around. This really hurts when trying to get new customers with no experience in the market; they'll want the one that seems cheapest with the most content, and $8 Hulu versus $10 Netflix will make a big difference (and all the services are vague about what you'll actually get until you create the trial account so it's hard to do comparison shopping). Plus there are the smaller players, maybe with a smaller movie selection but more than you'll ever get around to watching and they could win big here.
But why will they get new customers when they have actual competition who have lower prices? Ie, Hulu or Amazon or itunes? A new customer won't be able to really evaluate the difference between them. After all, having the most movies to offer sounds nice until you realize that even the company with the 5th most movies available still has more movies than are watchable in one lifetime.
I thought Generic Superheroes Team Up Movie was better, especially the scene at the end where they go to eat generic ethnic food.
But why will they get new customers when they have actual competition who have lower prices? Ie, Hulu or Amazon or itunes?
Hulu Plus is $8/month, and has advertising. Sorry; ads I can get on cable. Amazon Prime is $79/year ($6.67/month), but recent tv shows and movies aren't free ($2 to $3 per episode). Amazon has less content than Netflix (by a factor of about 2), but has more, recent TV shows. As far as "more movies than are watchable in one lifetime" -- it isn't the quantity, it's whether they have what you want to see. I like foreign movies and TV shows, and the selection on Netflix is pretty good; I don't really know how Amazon is in this regard, but the unsubstantiated rumor is, not so great. As for iTunes, I have no insight.
To be fair to Prime (which we have but don't like as much as we like Netflix), it went up $20 a year. Netflix is talking about a $1-2 a month increase which would work out to $12-24 more a year. So the Prime and Netflix price increases are in the same ballpark.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
I believe the competitor offering the old price is Netflix as the price rise is for new customers only.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
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Several years back Netflix scammed me into paying more for their service. The rising costs of fuel just made sense they had to do it but I was upset with the tactic they used and wish they were just honest about it. Their service was still way cheaper than renting locally and they had started to add more value with the streaming content. I'm sure somebody crunched the numbers and made a decision that deception was probably result in retaining more costumers but it still doesn't sit well with me.
About five years ago now they started putting up ads to upgrade your plan for a really low rate. If I remember correctly it was under $1 to upgrade my 4-disc plan to 5-disc. It turns out the rate change listed was the cost for the only remainder of the billing period and the actual cost of the upgrade was closer to $10. However, this information wasn't given to you until AFTER you finalized the upgrade. I didn't want to pay that much for just one disc so I downgraded back to my 4-disc plan but the current 4-disc rate was more expensive (around $5 more) than what I was paying currently paying. I contacted them about this and was told I could not get my old rate back.
I didn't press the issue and maybe I could have gotten them to cave if I threatened to cancel since I had been a subscriber for nearly 10 years at this point. However, I was also guilty of kinda scamming them too... Their mail service was significantly slower when it first started and it wasn't uncommon to send a disc back and have to wait more than four days to have it marked received in order for your next queue item to ship taking another 3+ days to finally get the disc. I learned you could just click the "sent back already" button (any time after they marked a disc as shipped) which would cause the next movie in the queue to ship. At first I would do it just when it was taking unusually long but I admit a few times I didn't want to wait and clicked it the same day they shipped discs allowing me to have 8 discs out on my 4 disc plan. It took them a year to prevent you from taking advantage of this little trick. In the end I called it even and downgraded to a 2-disc plan and am still a Netflix customer and their service is still valuable to me. I can justify paying a little more for and increased streaming library and original content.
for tv, that means, the anywhere from the time it is broadcast to a day or 2 later. for movies, that means, the same day as it is released on home video.
i doubt it though, too many dipshits paying right away, filling the trough, instead of waiting it out, so the companies get exactly what it is worth.
Agreed. The typical redbox has a VERY limited selection of DVD movies to rent, all of which are just a small subset of new releases and "popular" movies for the given time. This works if you don't rent older movies or the less popular indy movies, or movies in any other Genre but the mega-summer-blockbuster-no-plot-pointless movies.
I keep Netflix around for the fact that any movie, even ones I haven't seen in years, or since I was kid are available as a DVD rental. Most everyone else I talk to about Netflix use it only for Streaming, which is not Netflix's best part. I wouldn't pay for streaming only service (without DVD rental) since their streaming selection for movies sucks, and their streaming selection for shows are mostly shows I don't watch (with a few exceptions). Even if they did have shows I watch, I'd have to wait 2-3 seasons before they would be released on Netflix (depending on the show this might be more/less).
Last time there was a mass exodus of Netflix (when they tried to split the streaming and DVD rental into 2 different sites), I was the only person I knew that dropped the streaming side, rather than the DVD side of Netflix. After a long time I finally added streaming back on, and low and behold, their selection was not any better.
Now I'm starting to use a Raspberry Pi running XBMC and MashUp and am starting to like it. I still pay for TV, and Netflix, but screw it, if these companies want to charge so much for every subscription. Most of us can get the content for free at this point. If they get too greedy, they won't get any of our money. The only subscribers they'll end up are going to be the few who are the ones recording and posting the shows up on bit-torrent sites for the rest.
Don't get me started on CableTV... as a person who only watches about 5 channels regularly, why I have to pay big bucks for mostly channels I don't want is ridiculous. I think channels should be a-la-cart selection, and the channels that can't stay on the air because they suck, need to go out of business. I watch no sports, and half the channels I pay for are in a languages that I can't speak. Why am I paying for all this? Because in order to get the 5 channels I want, I have to subscribe to the second to highest channel tier, that's why, and then the cable company takes my big bill, and evenly distributes it to all the channels I don't want.
It's so frustrating, it ALMOST makes cutting off all my services and living with YouTube cat video's as my only entertainment start to seem enticing.
Profit that beats expectations and you RAISE prices?
Why not LOWER prices, or at least vow you won't raise prices for X years? That seems like it would create more positive views in customers' minds.
Torrents are always on "right now", they are "current", and they are "free"*. *+the cost of internet service
I pay 79 SEK/mnth for Netflix and 99 SEK/mnth for Spotify. I get way more value out of Netflix I feel, because I spend more time on Netflix than I do on Spotify. If they increase by 2 dollars, it brings it up to the same price as Spotify, which I still find reasonable. They probably also figured that Spotify had no reason to charge more for their service as they are similar models.
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Just get it all...Netflix + internet cost= true cost...
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Netflix has always been the most content leader, giving them an ability to charge more. Will there be a competitor price hike soon?
Redbox is very flawed:
1. Extremely limited selection
2. Usually has a line of mouthbreathers who take 20 minutes per page
3. Very poor security. If the client can not connect to the Redbox DB, its solution is to crash, exposing a XP desktop with keyboard and admin access
Netflix DVD rental is great. They have everything and you can get a lot of movies every week to copy as an ISO file to watch with VLC anytime you want.
No other service gives you the ability to so easily break copyright law and get good quality copies.