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Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month (time.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Millions of Netflix customers are about to start paying more to stream their favorite movies and TV shows -- and chances are, they don't even realize it. In May 2014, Netflix raised the price of its standard streaming plan for new subscribers, to $9.99 a month. However, the price hike did not apply to existing customers, who were grandfathered into their current rates of $7.99 a month for a two-stream, HD plan, Business Insider reported. Unfortunately, the good times are about to end for this customer base, which analysts estimate at about 17 million people, or 37% of Netflix's U.S. subscribers. In May, all grandfathered customers will be required to fork over $9.99 to continue to watch Netflix. Even worse, about 80% of those who will be affected by the price increase did not realize it was coming, according to research from JP Morgan.
to continue to have access to their mediocre collection of content.
Hulu Plus with adblocking is far and away a better return on investment... that said, I cut the cable, so I'll happily throw $10 at them so I can keep myself busy browsing their catalog for something to watch. That activity alone eats up hours of my time every month.
On an unrelated note... Does anyone else feel like we should be able to pay for access to content separately from the UI? I know solutions like TiVo allow you to search multiple content providers, but you still have to use a different user interface for each provider. I'd rather have a single UI(don't mind paying for it) and just pay Hulu, Netflix, Vudu, etc for access to their content. I don't need 5 streaming apps, each with it's own quirky UI.
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Netflix grandfathered in all these old customers at a time when it didn't have a large and growing library of exclusive content that is winning critical acclaim left and right.
You omitted the part where they've also been losing third party content left and right... and THAT's actually the content I care about.
They keep recommending their self-produced stuff to me, and somehow it's always "best guess" rated 5 stars. Then I watch it, and it's more like 2-3 stars - it's not all that good. But I'm sure they can hunt around and find "critics" who will like almost anything.
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Thing is since 2008 Netflix streaming titles have shrunk by 53%
And the once epic Anime section all gone but a few.
Because once they got popular and net neutrality debated "fast lanes" and filtering Netflix, to try and kill it 15 studios pulled all their content off Netflix