from the pay-more-for-less! dept
I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets
As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.
I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.
If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I’ll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It’s still just a spinning disc!
Just read few posts above that Blue ray is done with Sony shutting down last factory for drives. I guess it’s time to stock drives 🤷♂️
Sony is done. Other companies still make them.
For now. But the trend is depressing and eventually it won’t be profitable for anybody and one day there will be no more disc drives to buy.
I honestly don’t understand the visceral anger aimed at any business with a non-essential product offering.
It’s as if the individual complaining should be diagnosed with a variant of consumerism.
If you don’t like the pricing of a non-essential product, don’t buy it. But if you still desire said product to such an extreme that you pirate it, recognize your shortcomings.
This discussion would be wholly different if we were discussing healthcare, food, or any other necessity.
So, if you’re having an emotional reaction to a Netflix price increase, maybe you should get outside and touch some grass?
Does life really have to get ever shittier, just because a few people need more money?
Sure, everyone can live without Netflix. But some entertainment is good, not just individually, but also socially. Lots of public entertainment has died down during the pandemic. Now entertainment is getting more expensive while people already have too little money because everything else got too expensive.
Where does this end? When everyone can barely afford rent & food, and nothing else? After all, nothing else is essential, right?
I’d pirate meds if I needed them and had to deal with American pricing
I think all the people flooding this thread with piracy advocacy are having a much more emotional reaction than any actual Netflix subscribers.
I replaced netflix with Stremio + torrentio + realdebrid and couldn’t be happier. 90% stuff on netflix is crap anyways
Yo ho
As long as they’re paying, they’re not annoyed enough. 🕳
Avast, ye mateys!
Netflix selection is crap anyway!
Buy 👏Physical 👏Media 👏
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Can’t raise the subscription from 0.
I refuse to pay money for this, as the service continues to get worse, but the prices continue getting higher. They can blame it on data and hardware being more expensive, but that’s not our problem to solve
Download, me hardies yo ho!!!
You have to understand that streaming itself was NEVER going to make a profit.
In all likelihood, Netflix spent more dough on producing their own series (not even movies lmao) than it ever brought in.
This was the expected end game. “Invest upfront money” get your pick of the market, and then you can raise prices.
For people coming from 100-200 usd cable invoices, when Netflix launched, 10 USD a month for a big catalog, that was great! 10 years later the catalog is not that big, and the prices are raising
I think paramount and HBO are the only ones with actual revenue, because they already owned their content, they don’t need to make anything new. They are pretty mid tho, not like Netflix or Disney
