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  1. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Never say never but I think they know they’d be leaving too much on the table with that. I think if they decide to do something like that, rather than taking away the month to month option, that they’d just widen the disparity between the yearly price and the monthly price. The average service...
  2. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    This just sort of always reinforces my belief that in the age of subscription streaming, it doesn’t make sense to identify with any particular service the way, in the era of peak cable, people would consider themselves to be an “HBO household” or a “Showtime household”. I think the legacy of...
  3. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    If I’m reading it right, it allows sub-users on an account to split their profile into a new account if they want and keep all of their settings - so let’s say someone breaks up with their spouse, the spouse can turn their profile into a new account and keep their lists instead of starting from...
  4. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Actually, streaming has entered its second decade by now. This is pretty standard behavior for most streaming households. Prices are not going to go up substantially, and most streaming households are comfortable with more than a single service. Most people don’t want to be limited to one...
  5. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    That’s because that content is no longer on Prime. It’s on IMDbTV - now called FreeVee - which is a free service that is owned by Amazon and provided via the Prime interface. That may seem like a distinction without a difference but it’s not a simple case of Prime adding commercials, but a more...
  6. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    There’s no way they’d do that - if they added an ad-supported tier it would be priced lower than their current options and would be designed to entice new viewers, just as HBO Max recently did. There is no chance that they would switch exclusively to an ad supported model.
  7. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    They wouldn’t remove the ad-free version that we’ve grown accustomed to. They’d simply add a lower priced version with ads to entice consumers who are willing to pay less in exchange for viewing ads. That’s exactly what HBO Max did after a year of saying they wouldn’t.
  8. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    I think Paramount, yes. Their stated goal is to have one new episode of one of their different Star Trek shows on year-round, and I think there’s an audience willing to pay for that. They’ve also got all of the CBS owned properties (new and old), plus the Paramount film library. Peacock I...
  9. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Perhaps, but I don’t think anything will change too fundamentally. If I’m not mistaken (and please correct me if I’m wrong), you’ve expressed before that you believe streaming’s success is temporary and that people will eventually return to physical media. I do not believe that is at all...
  10. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    That’s what I mentioned above - for years, Netflix endorsed password sharing and the idea of separate user profiles was one they developed on their service to facilitate that. Interviews with their corporate officials acknowledged and accepted password sharing, stating that the expectation it...
  11. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    I think that will ultimately be the direction they take, although having spent these past few years building a large library probably won’t hurt them too much in the long term - the talent that they’ve hired has enjoyed their hands-off approach and that reputation will probably help them...
  12. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Honestly, probably in the same way you find out about what non-Netflix movies or shows you might like. Sometimes it’s from seeing a commercial/trailer/billboard, sometimes it’s from reading a review, sometimes it’s from a recommendation from a friend or family member, sometimes it’s from people...
  13. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    If Netflix gets bad press for tamping down on password sharing, that’s probably the direct result of them cheerleading it for so long. I’ve read interviews with their executives for years and whenever the question of password sharing came up, they’d always say something to the effect of, “we...
  14. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    That was always a problem when I lived in areas that had only one provider. When we first cut the cable part of the equation, we had been paying $200 a month for the combination of the lowest cable tier with no premium channels and the lowest internet tier. Cutting cable out caused the internet...
  15. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    I guess the same way you know when you go to a multiplex, which film you’re going to pick out of all the showings - some interest you, some don’t.
  16. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    I get that, and I was once the same way. I found it easier, rather than thinking of it as actively managing things, to just remember to hit cancel once a season finale has watched. I don’t worry about remembering the date a service will renew or anything (although subscribing through Apple...
  17. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    I think that’s the right move. To me, it makes more sense to go where the content you’re interested in is, rather than trying content simply because it’s on a service you have. When these services have offerings that interest me, I activate the subscription; when they don’t, I turn it off.
  18. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Basically it doesn’t matter to me if Netflix is $20 a month if there’s something I really want to see on there - then it’s worth it. But it also doesn’t matter to me that Apple+ is only $5, if there’s nothing appealing to me I’m not subscribing even if it is relatively cheap.
  19. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Unfortunately there just haven’t been that many things that have drawn my attention lately. I don’t know if it’s pandemic fatigue (two years of sitting in front of the tube), having much less free time due to parenthood or just something in the air, but a lot of what is currently being produced...
  20. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Let me put it this way: if there’s something that looks like something I might enjoy, I’ll try it out. Right now I’m watching the new James Gunn “Peacekeeper” show with John Cena and I’ve enjoyed the episodes aired enough that I’ll probably allow the subscription to run a second month to finish...
  21. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    I guess I just don’t watch that much stuff, or I’m more focused on watching specific things rather than looking for what’s available on something I already have. HBO Max had the new Matrix movie I wanted to see, so I subscribed for that and since I only subscribed for that, I canceled the...
  22. Josh Steinberg

    Netflix Netflix (once again) Raises All Subscription Plans in U.S.

    Friendly reminder that you don’t have to think of yourself as a “Netflix subscriber” the way households thought of themselves as “HBO houses” back in the 80s and 90s. None of the major streaming services require minimum subscription periods nor do they have cancelation penalties. Our...
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