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Netflix Nixes Cheapest $9.99 Plan in U.S., Ad-Free Streaming Now Starts at $15.49 Per Month

diamornte said:
Everyone cutting the cord/cable was the worst idea ever. For all the different individual streaming services we pay for, we are paying more now than we did when we paid for cable.
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That's a load of B.S. and you know it.

I proved it when I priced out the cost of cable TV last year


Just for cable TV itself, I would have paid $77.06/mo during their 12 month promo pricing period

$44.99 for tv (discounted by $32/mo for 12 months for new subscribers)
$17.99 for broadcast fee
$8.99 for HD box
$5.09 for taxes/misc fees


After the 12 month promo price, it would have increase by over $50/mo to over $127/mo

I haven't priced it lately, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was even higher now
 
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diamornte said:
Everyone cutting the cord/cable was the worst idea ever. For all the different individual streaming services we pay for, we are paying more now than we did when we paid for cable.
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roncron said:
I'm now paying more for all my various subscriptions than I was paying for cable (including premium channels) back in the day.

Most channels have raised their rates in the past year, which really adds up.

Most people have 4K TVs nowadays (thanks, Black Friday!) and it sucks that Netflix charges us an extra $50+ per year for 4K content.
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Only if you are criminally lazy.

I have said this a million times before but here it is again, in Basic:

10 Subscribe to a streaming service with content you want to view
20 Binge content
30 Cancel subscription
40 Goto 10

As long as you rotate your services you should never want/need more than 2 or 3 at a time.
 
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sw1tcher said:
That's a load of B.S. and you know it.

I proved it when I priced out the cost of cable TV last year


Just for cable TV itself, I would have paid $77.06/mo during their 12 month promo pricing period

$44.99 for tv (discounted by $32/mo for 12 months for new subscribers)
$17.99 for broadcast fee
$8.99 for HD box
$5.09 for taxes/misc fees


After the 12 month promo price, it would have increase by over $50/mo to over $127/mo

I haven't priced it lately, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was even higher now
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people that says this think cable cutters subscribe to every single service. but even if you did it would be better than cable tho.
 
smorrissey said:
iphones next...
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iPhone the ad supported model .. :oops:

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The entertainment/sports industry getting out of control. Networks in bidding wars over content then just expect consumers to pay. we are seeing these steep price increases. Until we vote with our wallets. It will not change much.
 
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topdrawer said:
then you agree that these companies are stealing from actors and writers and artists and you don't support them.
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Never said that and I'm not sure how you could possibly draw that conclusion. Please do not attribute thoughts or words to me that I didn't type, thanks.
 
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Mine is free through T-Mobile or I would have canceled it years earlier. It's terrible and only gotten worse. Nothing but movies no one wants to see.
 
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icanhazmac said:
As long as you rotate your services you should never want/need more than 2 or 3 at a time.
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Even if I was subscribing to 6 services concurrently, I'd still be paying less than for cable TV

Netflix : $19.99/mo
(HBO) Max : $19.99/mo
Disney Plus and Hulu (both no ads) : $19.99/mo
Paramount Plus and Showtime : $11.99/mo

6 streaming services = $71.96/mo

vs at least $77.06/mo based on me pricing out cable TV last year
 
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sw1tcher said:
Even if I was subscribing to 6 services concurrently, I'd still be paying less than for cable TV

Netflix : $19.99/mo
(HBO) Max : $19.99/mo
Disney Plus and Hulu (both no ads) : $19.99/mo
Paramount Plus and Showtime : $11.99/mo

6 streaming services = $71.96/mo

vs at least $77.06/mo based on me pricing out cable TV last year
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True, in my case there are only 2 of us so there is no need for 6 concurrent subscriptions as we could only watch 2 things at any given time. My thought is why pay for 6 and jump from service to service in the same day versus paying for 2 or 3 at a time and binging content from those services before rinsing and repeating.

That being said, I can understand how a loaded household (kids, grandparents, etc.) might need more than 2 or 3.
 
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It's not outrageous if you regularly use the service. But I had Disney+, Max, and this and there's not a ton of great content on the three combined, and the family wasn't watching enough to merit keeping them. So I cut them loose. Maybe during the winter when it's dark and snowy and there's more inside time. I still need the Xfinity internet and I have two old people with us who still like their networks and sports channels. I haven't sufficiently trained them to use the Apple TV.

Strava raised prices 30% too. That was a harder decision but they got tossed as well. I was just surfing on cancel momentum.
 
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icanhazmac said:
Only if you are criminally lazy.

I have said this a million times before but here it is again, in Basic:

10 Subscribe to a streaming service with content you want to view
20 Binge content
30 Cancel subscription
40 Goto 10

As long as you rotate your services you should never want/need more than 2 or 3 at a time.
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The more people that do this the faster the 1 year commitments/contracts will roll out. There is zero chance that these streaming services won't do this if everyone is subscribing for only 3-4 months out of the year.

Netflix will be first to do it then every other streaming service will follow within six months.

Enjoy it while it lasts.
 
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code-m said:
Just thinking out aloud with those options and calculations that means for new subs with no ads one has to pay $15.49 which was previous $9.99 so presuming the difference is $5.5 between previous and new pricing.

So if the ad supported version is $6.99 and we minus the $5.5 price difference for the new ad free version that means either Netflix cost $1.49 or $4.49 (old pricing of ad free $9.99 minus difference of ad supported version), meaning Netflix makes $5.5 in revenue for every ad supported account. Let me know if I am missing anything as product placement within content would also account towards revenue.
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I don't know how much Netflix makes from their $6.99/mo ad supported plan (they don't release that exact info), but when they reported earnings back in April 2023, they noted in their shareholder letter that it brings in more money than both their $9.99/mo Basic plan *and* their $15.49/mo Standard plan.

From shareholder letter, page 5:

In the US for instance, our ads plan already has a total ARM* (subscription + ads) greater than our standard plan. So this month we’ll upgrade the feature set of our ads plan to include 1080p versus 720p video quality and two concurrent streams in all 12 ads markets – starting with Canada and Spain today. We believe these enhancements will make our offering even more attractive to a broader set of consumers and further strengthen engagement for existing and new subscribers to the ads plan.


*ARM = Average Revenue per paid Member
 
Netflix proved that throwing money at own branded content making doesn't make good content. They haemorrhaged much good content over the years and the price has gradually climbed in concert with this watering down of their library. They should have put all of their money into buying MGM before Amazon did. Literally decades of great movies on a platter (4,000 titles) along with important franchises such as James Bond, and many TV shows (17,000 eps.). They needed something like that to really boost their repertoire.
 
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