Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com)

Jason Abbruzzese, writing for Mashable: Get ready to pay just a bit more for your Netflix subscription. The streaming video service will be raising prices on its middle and top tier plans in the U.S. starting in November. Subscribers who currently pay for the standard $9.99 service will be charged $10.99. The price of the premium tier will rise from $11.99 to $13.99. Good news for people on the basic $7.99 plan -- that price is staying put, for now. The U.S.-only price hikes will begin to go into effect in November, varying depending on individuals' billing cycles. Starting on Oct. 19, subscribers will be notified and given at least 30 days notice about the increase.

Comments

Re:No way to win.

[BorgDrone]

Of course there is a way to win.

We want to subscribe to one service and get all content, we don't need (or want) that content to be exclusive to that service.

So the solution is simple, forbid exclusivity and require content creators to provide their content to all services under identical terms. Then you have multiple services to choose from and all services can offer all content (if they want).

Re:Less streaming content and higher price?

[Anonymous Coward]

Back to piracy I go.

And here I sit....

[Anonymous Coward]

With my own library of movies and TV shows on DVD hooked to a media player for the TV paying nothing in subscription fees. Even when the Internet is down I still have TV. When the electric is done, I still have TV with battery power if I wanted. Cheers!

Re:Go back to 2 streams and bypass the limit.

[grep -v '.*' *]

Learn this one when me and my kids were fighting over the 2 streams

Good idea. You're bigger than them though, so I don't see this as your problem.