The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by fortran77 on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:58AM (#31123304)

Exactly. I’m a 59 year old man who knows how to pirate, but watches his content from streaming providers because it’s simpler and safer, and I don’t like to steal. I don’t think piracy is what’s killing them. It’s that there are too many streaming providers and people don’t hesitate to drop subscriptions. I tend to subscribe when there’s a deal, watch everything I want to see, then drop it and switch to another one for 6 months. And I’ll bet I’m not alone.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:29PM (#31123833)

This.

I'm a 60-year-old (Do I win a kewpie doll?), and have the tech chops to pirate, but I don't want to.

It's important for me to live a life of Personal Integrity. That stance gets a lot of chuckles with this crowd, but it's of critical importance, in my life.

I'm fortunate, in being able to afford streaming services, but find the profusion and variety to be a mess.

I like AppleTV Channels, and the way that the AppleTV Watch Now app aggregates the apps. Amazon has something similar, that my wife uses.

Unfortunately, it looks like these knuckleheads can't agree on common licensing models. I don't want the "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black." approach of cable bundlers, but I also don't like the myriad ways of subscribing, or, quite frankly, the ever-changing prices.

They need to get their shit together.

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by ghaff on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:44PM (#31124110)

I even have Plex set up with (mostly) ripped DVD content but I still subscribe to a few streaming services and buy/rent a la carte now and then. The fragmentation is annoying but subscribing/unsubscribing is pretty low friction. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see more discounting for longer subscription terms.

Of course, what was (past tense) also annoying was paying $100/month for a cable bundle that I rarely watched.

It's also the case that I have access to a ton of video and don't consider much to be "must see."

And to the topic at hand, I may very well cancel Netflix one of these days. There's some stuff I haven't watched yet but after I get through that I may well drop it.

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