from the pay-more-for-less! dept

  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Well they need to I’m sure because they must be about to give their employees raises. Right?

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets

    • Mihies@programming.dev
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      8 days ago

      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 🤷‍♂️

        • Mihies@programming.dev
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          7 days ago

          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.

    • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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      8 days ago

      cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍

      the corporate noose is tightening on everyone; the rope will either fray and snap on drop or simply break our necks. I am sickened by the short-term likely outcome, because so few people are pulling out the knives and cutting at their tethers.

  • MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Netflix has stopped being a product I am interested in a long time ago.

    When they started out, they had a lot of stuff. These days, you’ll have to subscribe to 5 or 6 services to watch a lot. And every service makes their own shitty shows to attract more customers. And 99% of them suck, with the occasional succes.

    Right now, Netflix is too expensive for what they offer. But clearly they think they can get away with raising proces, so I guess most people think it is worth it or simply don’t care.

  • shirro@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    They do it because they can. They are squeezing every last drop out of their customers. Clueless people with roo much money won’t cancel. People who want to keep the product but are feeling the squeeze will go ad supported.

    The rest were probably going to leave at any price as there is a lot more competition now and Netflix has adapted very poorly.

    People either hop between services or go sailing wearing an eye patch or increasingly just so something else.

    I think a lot of viewing time has been lost to social media, gaming and other alternatives. Don’t know if most people these days have the attention span for day long binges with their phones going off every few minutes and the FOMO. I can handle sitting in a room watching a movie with someone with them looking at their phone for half of it

    • Fungah@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I pirate literally everything.

      I used yt-dlp and downloaded a shitload of old commercials once and I stick then in a random playlist to get the full TV effect. Never know what’ll be on.

      From the bottom of my heart, to everyone involved in the production of any kind of media: I hope you fall face into a fifty deep wishing well full of human shit and erect dicks.

  • huquad@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    I’m not annoyed in the slightest by this. That said I’m also not a user

    • AJ1@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      … and that said, I cancelled years ago after their 3rd price hike in 18 months (in Canada). been sailing the high seas ever since and feel absolutely no guilt whatsoever. I remember their excuse was always something like, “In order to continue to bring you top-shelf content, we must also continue to raise your monthly fee, while at the same time our original content becomes increasingly shitty and we systematically remove quality content from our library, leaving you with horrible Netfux originals as your only option”