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Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir... by chc on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:31AM (#13974560)
I think you may be misremembering. I'm pretty sure, at least in America, Netflix never charged extra for for Starz — it was either included in Netflix's catalog or not offered at all.

Maybe you're confusing Netflix with Amazon, who do offer Starz as an additional subscription? Or maybe you're just conflating the Starz catalog with Netflix's streaming service, which was originally part of the DVD service and then became its own thing?

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Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir... by wapz on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:19AM (#13975181)
Thank you, I looked it up and you are correct. I must be remembering the "price" hike where the price was actually the same but we lost the dvd option (so we would have to pay extra for it). I'm guessing when Starz got dropped is when we cancelled and not the price hike then. I haven't used Amazon recently so I wasn't aware of their Starz plan.
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