iamwhatiseem
Diamond Member
- Aug 19, 2010
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Brief history of me and Netflix - you may not care about:
I signed up for Netflix streaming the day they first offered it. I am literally among the first 100 people who signed up. This had some benefits. I still paid only $7.99/mo all the way to just a few years ago. When the premium versions came out, I got the features automatically and at no additional costs. When they raised my price from $7.99 2 or 3 years ago to accommodate 4k Ultra they sent me an actual mailed letter saying they were raising my subscription by $1 but as a founding member I get the full 4k premium at the basic price, and my sub $ will always be basic with premium benefits.
On to the thread:
Netflix has been amazing for years. Never commercials, always lower price then all other services, and a vast collection of things to watch.
Not so much anymore.
The giant corporate competitors are collectively removing their content from Netflix to prop up their own that is more expensive, not 4k (without paying a lot more) with 1/100th the content. And with commercials, unless you pay more.
What is happening right now in the streaming world is it is slowly but surely becoming the very model of business that cord cutters got away from - pay more and more and more across multiple services to get content you want, buried in a plethora of content you don't want. Just like cable TV.
I signed up for Netflix streaming the day they first offered it. I am literally among the first 100 people who signed up. This had some benefits. I still paid only $7.99/mo all the way to just a few years ago. When the premium versions came out, I got the features automatically and at no additional costs. When they raised my price from $7.99 2 or 3 years ago to accommodate 4k Ultra they sent me an actual mailed letter saying they were raising my subscription by $1 but as a founding member I get the full 4k premium at the basic price, and my sub $ will always be basic with premium benefits.
On to the thread:
Netflix has been amazing for years. Never commercials, always lower price then all other services, and a vast collection of things to watch.
Not so much anymore.
The giant corporate competitors are collectively removing their content from Netflix to prop up their own that is more expensive, not 4k (without paying a lot more) with 1/100th the content. And with commercials, unless you pay more.
What is happening right now in the streaming world is it is slowly but surely becoming the very model of business that cord cutters got away from - pay more and more and more across multiple services to get content you want, buried in a plethora of content you don't want. Just like cable TV.