Netflix Raises Prices Including First Hike on Ad-Supported Tier
Netflix is increasing subscription prices in the U.S. -- including the first hike on its ad-supported plan.
🏴☠️ (for legal reasons this is a joke)
You shouldn't joke about these things, man.
I accidentally set up a home server running Plex/Jellyfin, and now I control all my media without paying £18 per month (and probably due to rise soon, like the US pricing) to a company that only has a handful of things I like and regularly takes away content, plus prevents account sharing.
You wouldn't want someone else to accidentally do that, would you?
E: yes people. I get that your setup is expensive. But you don't have to spend a lot. You can host a Plex server on an Nvidia shield with some external storage, you can buy an old crappy PC/laptop on eBay (bonus: a laptop comes with a built-in UPS!). A media server does not require beefy hardware.
Weird. Similar thing happened to me. One day I was thinking, "Damn. These streaming services are getting too expensive. I may have to get back to sailing the high seas if this keeps up." I shit you not, all of a sudden my home server is sucking up all kinds of movies and TV shows and streaming them to my living room. It's like The Brave Little Toaster if the toaster were actually a Dell PowerEdge and it went on a long journey to find the master (me) as much high quality media as possible.
Yeah i bought a small computer off of eBay, installed Proxmox and all this weird software started downloading and categorizing media. It was terrifying.
Same thing happened to me, but with an Overseerr frontend for my older parents (with my domain just routed to my house with nginx), with a backend of Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Unzipperr (not sure if this is the name but it’s vital)…
So many accidental automations like being able to just wishlist something on plex when I’m out and about and have it ready when I get home.
I host not only all the Servarr apps, but about a dozen more miscellaneous ones on an old unused workstation I stole out of the attic at my old job. It has a shitty quadcore and 16gb of ram that I cobbled together from a couple other workstations I nabbed. The thing wouldn’t even be able to run Minecraft, but it has no issue fetching media from private trackers and Usenet, and then streaming them to my other devices. The only thing I wish I could upgrade is the shitty network card, that can only handle 10mb/s. It’s not too bad, because I only let it download at night when I’m asleep anyway.
Just goes to show you can make a really good setup with whatever old PCs you have laying around. Or steal.
(For legal reasons, I’m not suggesting other people steal computers from work)
If I still watched TV, I the risk of me doing that accidentally is very high.
Right exactly it can be as expensive as you want it to be. I have 2 12TB drives going. But you absolutely could just buy a $200 mini PC with a 1TB drive in it. Write a simple shell script that purges content first in first out. Cheap.
without paying £18 per month
yes, now I'm paying 10 times more.
Don't mind it though, experience is better in every way possible besides occasional maintenance need, but it's definitely not for everyone.
Could be done cheaper, but it's tradeoffs all the way as with everything in life.
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Hoist the colors
Yarr
Bold move for a platform with nothing to watch.
As long as pedons pays it doesn't really matter
Didn’t… didn’t they just do this?
Man, ad free is gonna get fucking expensive over time. I can already see how they will weight the ad tier at “just $9.99” at some point when ad free 4k is $31.99 or something crazy.
People will remain subscribed because a $2 increase every few months doesn’t feel as bad as a $30 increase in one go.
Frogs in boiling water and all that…
"The ad-free tier. Look man, don't even ask about cost. This is one of those situations where if you have to ask, you can't afford it."
Was taught that if someone asks the price, they're concerned with wanting to pay it.
You'd think this doesn't work but it does
Netflix has done the math. They know they will make up the difference.
Get a billion dollars from WWE
Raise prices on everyone
Included First Hike on Ad-Supported Tier
Is it ad-supported or is it subscription supported? Because it can't be both.
It is both. How did they get a billion for wwe? Surely tey pay for the rights?
What would you call regular TV packages?
You pay for it, and you get ads
This is why I usenet.
I find the paid with ads tier so confusing. Kind of defeats the purpose of paying.
55% of new Netflix signups between Oct-Dec 2024 were for the ads tier though.
@overload @return2ozma we periodically sign up for it when my kids remember something on there they like watching. The children's accounts don't show ads.
It's not confusing when you learn that it's literally the most profitable tier for Netflix. They make more per user from ad-subsidized subscriptions than they do from the ad-free subs.
All they have to do is the dance of "how much can we charge for subs and how many ads can we show before people stop paying for this tier?"