• TommySalami@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    1 year ago

    Just more enshittification. Glad I cancelled last month, you don’t get to tell me who is or who isn’t in my household.

    • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      They’re cashing out and running the brand into the ground. Sure they may technically gain some new subscribers by cracking down on password sharing but their shows will be receiving millions less views because of this and everything else they’re doing. It’s all typical short-sighted please the share holders bullshit.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    Netflix is my go-to for streaming services. Mainly because there’s a dedicated “Netflix” button on my Shield remote that I keep hitting on accident.

    • greenskye@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have a very high end plex server. I think all in between VPN, Usenet, hardware costs I pay roughly $60/mo. But that gets me all the content I want, organized exactly how I want it, and nothing disappears on me. No need for 3-4 subscriptions, multiple apps, etc. And that service works for my entire family and I can easily make offline copies for trips.

      Now all this does require pretty significant time investment. It’s less now, but there were multiple very long research sessions and troubleshooting that I had to go through. I would absolutely pay for a service that was marginally close in ease of use just to not have to be my own IT, but it doesn’t exist.

      I pay for streaming music. It just works and I (usually) don’t feel like maintaining my own music library is worth it. I pay for all my games, because Steam just works. I pay for all my ebooks because they just work. Streaming video by comparison is hot garbage. Just a complete morass of exclusive content, shitty apps, poor user experience and stupid policy decisions.

      • pbjamm@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        100% agree.

        Steam works. Spotify works. These things are worth paying for because they make my life easier. When Netflix was the only game in town and had content from everywhere it was a fantastic service. Then every studio decided that they wanted all that money for themselves and started their own service. Since that time it is nothing but fragmentation, degraded service and confusion. Streaming Video seems to be in a race to oblivion.

        • Festivity8529@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Spotify buy out popular podcasters and force them to use their platform and this results in publicly available Podcasts going behind a centralised platform. This over time will cause the death of Podcasters.

  • nzodd@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    Guess I’ll just… Stop paying for shit ever again. Already set up a nice Jellyfin server with 16,000+ movies in anticipation of this garbage move so I’m good for the next 43 years assuming one movie a day, every day.

      • nzodd@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Mostly some custom scripts for scraping yts.mx, cross-referencing imdb for e.g. top 50/100 box office for each year (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=${YEAR}&title_type=feature&) and automatically uploading to and downloading from my seedbox. Tried radarr but it wasn’t really my thing. They’re all basically garbage 1080p encodes but for their size they’re passable enough for me, and my goal was a large library for discoverability not a small one for quality, so it worked out perfectly for that. Also been checking r/opensignups (RIP reddit) for good trackers when they have open registration for the occasional specific stuff that I want in better quality.

  • Stefen Auris@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    Just throwing it out there that large hard drives are inexpensive and there’s free software out there like jellyfin to let you play your own media on devices. Data acquisition is up to you of course but that’s not particularly difficult either. So just become your own streaming service!

    • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I just doubt 10Mbps up is enough to actually stream content. And how do you deal with the Double NAT problem? I tried just reading over samba via zerotier, but it couldn’t handle 1080p, but that could be slow relays for zerotier connections.

      • dan@upvote.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        10Mbps up is nowhere near enough, unless you stream very low quality (think 720p or highly compressed 1080p). High-quality 4K can get close to 100Mbps.

        • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Ahh, yes, this is why home streaming is a no go - not good enough upload. And I don’t care where I get my media, I don’t want to deal with the hassle of cloud hosting and whatever legal papers I’d need for that, given that ripping a DVD is still illegial.

  • Briongloid@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    I presume ad-free will eventually take over with the same price, after the other 2 plans increase.

    It’s likely with the household changes we will see an end to the old plans that were based on screens and we will have 2-tiers, ads & no-ads.

    Netflix will only get more expensive from here and the ad plan was always meant to make the ‘Premium’ plan look better.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m not surprised. Now that Netflix can no longer rely on cable and broadcast to produce its content for pennies on the dollar, Netflix is going to have a hard time paying for its catalog.

  • Thurgo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Netflix just fucking sucks now. It has killed me off it’s service. We have been subscribed since 2012 and I’ll occasionally search something I don’t have on my home media server and the search will autocomplete what I’m typing, but not actually show the content I want. It will display some other related garbage. I can’t imagine paying monthly and suffering through ads for this experience.

  • esc27@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Heh. I (US) cancelled this morning and they tried to offer me basic as an alternative to cancellation.

  • Elyssa@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m currently testing the Netflix “Killed Off” subscription plan. 0.00 a year and ad free!

  • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    The more anti-consumer shit they pull, the more of my friends I get to join my Plex server, for marginal cost since more users barely means any more used electricity.

  • Ronno@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    If any company knows how to fast track their way into bankruptcy, it would be Netflix. Kudo’s for them to try and improve their previous track record!

    • MisterMoo@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      How does this comment end up under every post about Netflix? Take a look at their financials. They’re doing fine. Great, even. Their decisions may be unpopular with a tiny but vocal minority, but let’s deal in facts here.

      • Jon-H558@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yep their evidence shows the password sharing crackdown got them more subs overall and I’m sure they have checked this will work too. People forget the purpose is to make them money not provide entertainment to the masses.

        • jadero@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I’m not a fan of the form of capitalism that’s about selling what they want us to buy instead of what we want to buy, but it seems to be working for pretty much every company out there.

          I guess we missed our window of opportunity with Netflix. We moved to the middle of nowhere with no internet or cell service 12 years ago. We’ve had Starlink for nearly 2 years and are just starting to run out of stuff available for free on our Roku. It’s been a couple of decades since I played with, um, other options, but I somehow doubt it’s become more difficult. :)

      • Dee@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I don’t like it but after they came down on password sharing their subscription numbers rose, not fell. This will likely be another move that’s anti-consumer but pro-investor.

  • Patricia@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Crave (in Canada) did this a couple of years ago. Their premium package included shows from HBO and others. I guess not enough people were going for it so they got rid of the basic package & bumped everyone up when their auto-renewal happened. So the price switched from $99 per year to $199. I got rid of it for awhile then finally gave in.