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Netflix Says It Will Test Lower-Price Subscription Plans (bloomberg.com)
Netflix says it plans to begin testing lower-priced subscription in some markets in a bid to see if it will help the company boost the number of subscribers, CEO Reed Hastings told Bloomberg. The company has not identified the markets where it will be testing the lower-priced subscription, and has not clarified how soon it intends to conduct these tests. The company will likely consider Asian markets where it is having a tough time gaining the market share against local services that are much aggressively priced.
does it mean programs will be even worse than from the expensive version?
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They keep taking away content. That's why I dropped years ago.
I am a qualified test engineer. Let me help Netflix with the test plan.
Objective: determine if customers are able to achieve the same level of enjoyment while paying less.
Procedure: 1. Lower prices.
Conclusion: Yes, they can.
If you have to test for this, then I have some bad news for you...
Unless Netflix has some sort of luxury-good status, I would be very surprised if lowering costs did not lead to increased market share... except you piss off your loyal customer base, who now pay more than new customers!
What about a on stream plan thet gives me uhd, as a singele person indonâ(TM)t need or wanr multiple simultsnius streams but I do want UHD, ok I know uhd is still a bit of a premium product so I would be willing to pay a little exstra for singel uhd stream thrn single hd stream, but what us the deail wit paying for streams I would never use, unless I brak the tos and share the account with a friend
"What if we charged less?"
What if your primary creative decision wasn't "we should adapt already existing content and make a character a different race"
What if you stopped hemorrhaging the movie content you sold us on
What if you just sold your company to the one actually hosting your content, Amazon, and gave up trying to be a television network
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The content catalog of Netflix is a joke. Their UI is garbage. It is designed to hide the shortcomings of the catalog.
Iâ(TM)d gladly pay 50â/month if it gives me more content.
Sorry, Netflix your content sucks. Your own productions suck, the movies suck because Hollywood hasn't produced anything original in over a decade and now you've decide that politically motivated content is a winner. Fuck that, I can get that free on CNN or MSNBC.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
And if you want to send some Asian women over, that's ok by me also, we can call it an Asian market and have studies to test penetration
$10.99 a month isn't ruinous, but maybe Netflix could create live streams of local television content in my area. 40 or so channels, ala-carte would be nice. I don't need any shopping channels though.
The crap content will be in the lowest tier, and you'll have to buy the (as yet unmentioned) premium tier to get the content that you paid regular price for a year ago. Meh, I'll keep my subscription to P1r@te6@y.
How much worse could they possibly make it?
Compared to cable, their content is awesome. Lots of foreign films and TV shows that you can't (legally) get in the US any other way.
I guess it's bad if you're a sports fan, but NFLX and TV antenna does pretty well for me. Total nut including Internet is about $50/mo.
(1) Ability to turn off ALL autoplaying everywhere including when browsing and at the end of any show.
(2) Ability to have things I have already seen FILTERED from the various lists.
(3) Ability to to have things I have watched that I liked be automatically re-added to the "Currently Watching" list when a new season becomes available.
(4) Ability to FILTER based on "original language"
Most of these things (except #2) existed at one time, but NetFlix has done away with them.
Netflix should make a "contract" or promise to its users to never, ever, under any circumstances, allow anyone to work in upper management who would even suggest the idea of advertisements.
Right at the top of every Netflix page, should be text that says:
We value your business and will never, ever show you advertisements.
While it might not win them many new customers today, it's probably the single most important thing they can do to safeguard their dominance in the future.
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I realize that Netflix has changed the way a lot of people watch TV and movies. But even though Netflix is the far and away leader in streaming services, I really believe that they are going to face stiff competition from existing services like Hulu and new services that are springing up soon, especially from Disney. That along with other forms of entertainment that take up a lot of free time and disposable income (social media, online video gaming and YouTube) will force Netflix to lower their prices not only overseas but here in America as as well.
Well, maybe not having "Netflix exclusives" show on other platforms would get people to switch . . . I can't believe how much of this stuff is really available elsewhere.
Also, what's the deal with not showing the language of the movie?
And while we're arbitrarily complaining about autoplay and things like that, what's up with having "Awesome Movie 3" but not having 1 and 2 in the back catalog? Major Pita.
...is because the library is fickle, and shrinking. I'm not interested in throwing money down the trash for a "library" where the stuff I love today could be gone next month. And studies have shown that the library is getting smaller and smaller, which more leaving the library than is being added back to it. Sorry, screw you Netflx and all the other streamers... I'll stick with owning my own streaming library via my Plex server and my owned legit 1000 or so discs.
Considering that Netflix stupidly gives you content in the region you are in versus the region you pay for, what happens when these customers pay the low price but live, say, in the US. US Netflix for cheaper prices?
Secondly the cat is out of the bag already and I don't see the Netflix or US media catching up. Chinese and Korean content especially is getting much, much better quality these days and Asians (and the rest of the world) don't really give a damn if the content has to be subtitled or not. And in Asia copyright is a joke, so it's basically all free content anyway.
Netflix selections are a joke in Asia also, so trying to compete there is fairly stupid. Most brand new movies get pretty high quality copied right in the theaters and then subbed and posted online. My Korean wife pays I think $2.99 USD a month for a Korean content system just for her parents and they can watch pretty much any new released American movie within about 3 days after cinema release, subbed in Korean. No, Netflix can't compete. And the funny thing is especially in Asia they don't even really understand that piracy is "wrong" or illegal. They would look at you like "what? Wait what do you mean?" (not all, but most).
I don't know how much time I've wasted browsing the catalog, finding something sorta interesting, only to discover its in random-foreign-language with dicey subs. I'll sit there and read subs sometimes, but the content has to be on the extreme upper end of fantastic for me to sit through that crap. If they're going to use random imports to pump & dump the library, they're gonna need to at least invest in some dubbing.
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