Your opinion sucks.
Edit: I also spend 2-3 months a year per country. Which is going to be awkward per new rules.
Television Netflix is getting stupid password sharing guidelines
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Edit: I also spend 2-3 months a year per country. Which is going to be awkward per new rules.
IPTV is better anyway. I remember during lockdown watching Rocky 1,2 and 3 on Netflix then 4 was on Prime ( I think) and 5 onwards were on pay as you watch platforms.
They should be paying people to watch Rocky 5.
When this comes into effect in Ireland I'll cancel and just sail the seven seas if netflix have content I desire post cancellation.
Netflix has gone to shit the past few years. The content is poor except for a few bits far and few between. Others have taken the model and run away with it with much better content and I'm not gonna miss Netflix at all. Hilariously stupid idea to claw back profits but it'll go back to norm within 6 months.
Hopefully other streaming services don't follow suit.
Hopefully other streaming services don't follow suit.
I haven’t got Netflix, but when I first heard the news this was my first thought. Connect to your phone once a month and you’re sorted
Just open it up every few days ...start something for ten seconds or so. Bob's your uncle.
Won't someone think of the people with multiple homes!!!
The flaws in this idea are numerous. Companies supposedly have clever people working for them so why can’t they think of these before coming out with such a dogshit dumb idea? These streaming companies need to learn to stay humble and realise their success is built on cheap entry and mass interest.
And you find it hard to log in once a month?
I can understand people who use it on different TVs/houses and are sharing their accounts with others, but you literally said your biggest concern is that you will forgot to log in once a month, which seems like a real first world problem.
Already being offered similar here in India
I'd expect it'll work like Now did, before Brexit. I had to get someone in the UK to log in once a month for it to continue to work in the EU without a VPN. Since Brexit, I just use the VPN and accept occasional buffering.
As others have said, having to buy the top Netflix package to get 4K and Atmos is a pisstake, and I share my account with three other family members. If I can't just log in occasionally to keep it active, they can whistle. There's very little on it anyway - the last time I logged on was to watch Glass Onion over a month ago.
As others have said, having to buy the top Netflix package to get 4K and Atmos is a pisstake, and I share my account with three other family members. If I can't just log in occasionally to keep it active, they can whistle. There's very little on it anyway - the last time I logged on was to watch Glass Onion over a month ago.
So is there a plan to actually pay for others to use it or are they getting rid sharing entirely. I already pay €20 a month for Netflix.
The trials in South America have an additional household fee, per household.
'Arr me mateys.
Is that on top of the premium service? If so, feck that. I'm becoming a pirate.
We're back to the point where it's now cheaper to just have a SKY subscription than it is to subscribe to streaming services you want. Full circle.
We were always going to end back here, it's the way of capitalism. Money men can't help themselves.
Pirating has always been the way... to report things and keep honest companies like Netflix afloat. £20 a month is a small price to pay for a better world.
I've been reporting TLOU links for 3 weeks now, they've been posting high def versions when HBO MAX can show them for a small fee. The world is a cruel place.
I don't know. If it is, I'm with you. I pay for the ability to watch on 4 devices simultaneously, why the feck does it matter where they are?!
that’s what it seems like to me…. And for that reason I’m out.
I think about this, but then sometimes I feel like the overlords of said smart people, who are only focused on the income of the here and now, overrule the people saying that this isn't a good idea and demand doing the thing that they think will make more money now.
What happens if you want to watch Netflix on your phone while you're on the treadmill at the gym? Or on a train or something? Feck that guy I guess.
Netflix talk about revenue and cutting costs, they should consider not paying for some of the absolute tripe shows and movies they've put on their platform the last few years.
I'll be surprised if Netflix doesn't end up much much smaller
They have
1. Few strong IPs remaining
2. Constant cancellations so they aren't building many strong IPs
3. Rising costs
4. Heavy competition
5. Draconian measures like the one discussed here
They have
1. Few strong IPs remaining
2. Constant cancellations so they aren't building many strong IPs
3. Rising costs
4. Heavy competition
5. Draconian measures like the one discussed here
Haven't used Netflix in ages. We switched to Disney plus and are enjoying their collection far more.
Initially it made sense for them because they needed to get bigger and bigger. The more people that talk about them and see the content the better. Now they are sadly in a position to turn that back on us and say it's time to pay up
What has genuinely surprised me, or maybe I've missed it, they aren't doing an option for additional household. It would be so much more logical to add an option to say if you live elsewhere then that person/home can be added for an extra £2 a month or something. You are almost guaranteed to keep more customers that way and I don't think people would be that annoyed. Then slowly over the years increase that cost
I hope the cnuts go broke
What has genuinely surprised me, or maybe I've missed it, they aren't doing an option for additional household. It would be so much more logical to add an option to say if you live elsewhere then that person/home can be added for an extra £2 a month or something. You are almost guaranteed to keep more customers that way and I don't think people would be that annoyed. Then slowly over the years increase that cost
I hope the cnuts go broke
The problem is they are asking people to pay up when they have a worse library.
The Netflix made content is shite. It’s usually a Ryan Reynolds movie where he’s phoning it in.
The series don’t fare much better. Better Call Saul is done. Stranger Things will be done this year / next year. Ozark is done (I think). What other shows will pull people in? They’re scraping the barrel with their content.
The other thing is - 90% of the non-Netflix content on their service can be found on Prime anyway.
The series don’t fare much better. Better Call Saul is done. Stranger Things will be done this year / next year. Ozark is done (I think). What other shows will pull people in? They’re scraping the barrel with their content.
The other thing is - 90% of the non-Netflix content on their service can be found on Prime anyway.
You is finishing this year
They have now The Witcher (sans Henry Cavill), Emily in Paris, Squid Game and maybe Alice in Borderland.
It's hardly a stellar line up, they've cancelled a lot of series with potential too.
They can pump out decent miniseries like Dahmer but these won't keep people coming back.
There's a reason it's being trialled in Timbuktu. Presumably they will figure out a better method, like getting the people who connect from two different locations at the same time.
The only one I can see being a draw is Squid Game.
Of course but they know that. So instead of doing this way of saying own a whole account or feck off, they should have just charged extra households and caused less drama
This is literally what they have been trialling (about 3USD a month), but I don't know if that's what they're going to use going forward, or how it affects those already with multi-device subs.
And that's the flaw in your question.
Stranger Things?
Yeah, that’s the most obvious/simple solution. Although still has flaws. I pay for Netflix for my household I don’t want to be stopped from watching it on my iPad on a business trip because my kids log on at home at the same time.
One thing I’m surprised they haven’t done is the Sky approach. Each account gets a fixed number of devices only.
I'm so in for a Dustin and Steve spin off.
So if my "home wifi" is my phone's hotspot, how would they know?