Just more enshittification. Glad I cancelled last month, you don’t get to tell me who is or who isn’t in my household.
They’re cashing out and running the brand into the ground. Sure they may technically gain some new subscribers by cracking down on password sharing but their shows will be receiving millions less views because of this and everything else they’re doing. It’s all typical short-sighted please the share holders bullshit.
and i’m testing the seven seas. arrr! 🏴☠️
Roughly $200 a year. You can buy a very large external hard drive for that price…which would be a much better investment.
I have a very high end plex server. I think all in between VPN, Usenet, hardware costs I pay roughly $60/mo. But that gets me all the content I want, organized exactly how I want it, and nothing disappears on me. No need for 3-4 subscriptions, multiple apps, etc. And that service works for my entire family and I can easily make offline copies for trips.
Now all this does require pretty significant time investment. It’s less now, but there were multiple very long research sessions and troubleshooting that I had to go through. I would absolutely pay for a service that was marginally close in ease of use just to not have to be my own IT, but it doesn’t exist.
I pay for streaming music. It just works and I (usually) don’t feel like maintaining my own music library is worth it. I pay for all my games, because Steam just works. I pay for all my ebooks because they just work. Streaming video by comparison is hot garbage. Just a complete morass of exclusive content, shitty apps, poor user experience and stupid policy decisions.
100% agree.
Steam works. Spotify works. These things are worth paying for because they make my life easier. When Netflix was the only game in town and had content from everywhere it was a fantastic service. Then every studio decided that they wanted all that money for themselves and started their own service. Since that time it is nothing but fragmentation, degraded service and confusion. Streaming Video seems to be in a race to oblivion.
Netflix just fucking sucks now. It has killed me off it’s service. We have been subscribed since 2012 and I’ll occasionally search something I don’t have on my home media server and the search will autocomplete what I’m typing, but not actually show the content I want. It will display some other related garbage. I can’t imagine paying monthly and suffering through ads for this experience.
Netflix is my go-to for streaming services. Mainly because there’s a dedicated “Netflix” button on my Shield remote that I keep hitting on accident.
Whoa–there’s an app for that! https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/30/shield-tv-remote-remap-netflix/ Thanks!
the only regret I have is the inability to bind my jellyfin app to my remote Netflix button.
Depending on what TV you use, it might be possible.
there was a redditor that was insisting that it was Nvidia paying Netflix millions and millions of dollars for the privilege of having a dedicated netflix button on the remote, and not the opposite, Netflix paying Nvidia millions of dollars to have a sponsored button the remote
