from Hacker News

Netflix is raising prices, again

by wmsmith on 10/19/23, 2:43 PM with 37 comments

  • by danscan on 10/19/23, 4:39 PM

    This finally got me to unsubscribe. I just don’t use it enough and don’t think it’s worth the money

    I’ve also held out on paying for YouTube because I think it’s worth closer to $10/mo than the ~$20 it’s priced at

  • by wmsmith on 10/19/23, 2:43 PM

    From the article:

    Netflix also announced it's raising the price for its most expensive streaming service by $2 to $23 per month in the U.S. — a 10% increase — and its lowest-priced, ad-free streaming plan to $12 — another $2 bump. The $15.50 per month price for Netflix's most popular streaming option in the U.S. will remain unchanged

  • by silisili on 10/19/23, 6:37 PM

    I think this may be the straw for a lot of people. When times were good, I didn't much care, what's an extra dollar or two.

    But the last couple years have been pretty brutal with shrinkflation, general inflation, rents/housing, gas, groceries, and other streaming services all lightening the wallet. I'm definitely way more picky now about services arbitrarily raising prices this year than any time before, at least, and I'm in a much better position than a lot of people.

  • by disposition2 on 10/19/23, 7:30 PM

    > Netflix on Wednesday disclosed summertime subscriber gains that surpassed industry analysts' projections, signaling the video streaming service's crackdown on password sharing is converting __former freeloaders__ into paying customers.

    Has the AP (the source of the article) always been this editorialized? I'm not sure how one could be a freeloader when someone is paying for the allotted usage of a subscription plan.

    I understand now, Netflix limits the usage to those under 1 roof / IP but previously, they sold subscriptions that allowed N people to use the service under an account at a given time. Seems like that is just people leveraging the service they bought...not "freeloading".

  • by dr_kiszonka on 10/19/23, 4:43 PM

    One year of Netflix's 4k plan costs more than some 4k TV's. Admittedly, these sub $287 4k TV's aren't amazing, but still.

  • by ivan_burazin on 10/19/23, 6:48 PM

    This might be the end, content is lower and lower quality and prices higher and higher. Moreover there are a dozen streaming services and imho apple+ and max are way above

  • by happytiger on 10/19/23, 6:47 PM

    They’re positioning to introduce a crapload of ads to lower tiers and become and ad supported service.

    As they do this they have to use the YouTube strategy of “adding enough value” by raising prices to keep from undercutting the ad supported service.

    Classic television executive thinking and just God awful user experience.

    Netflix is quickly becoming the next Comcast.

  • by kderbyma on 10/19/23, 4:53 PM

    reminder....dvds are a buck or 2 and can be ripped pretty reliably to a server.....I recommend you buy 100+ movies and start a collection this next year....

  • by ulrischa on 10/19/23, 5:14 PM

    Unsubscribed. Also the contents were not so good as in the beginning. Would like to have video library back. It was 1,5 Euro for new movies.

  • by streakfix on 10/19/23, 7:04 PM

    Why don't they display the list of available shows to unsubscribed users?

  • by peruvian on 10/19/23, 4:55 PM

    They added 9m subscribers in Q3. Something is working for them.