This makes it better, still shit, but at least kinda acceptable. Just remove partially viewing the ingredients through web if this is how you handle it.
Yeah, I like to watch anime, and most of it (if not all, I’m not sure) is only available on 1080p and it doesn’t look nearly as bad as Netflix want us to think lol.
I also watch Netflix with my Nvidia Shield TV which has a pretty neat AI upscaler, but honestly any good upscaler nowadays would do, I mean lots of content is available in 1080p and that doesn’t looks like changing for the foreseeable future.
I’ve got a 1080p TV. I have had it for 10+ years and I will continue to have it until it craps out.
I’ve seen 4k. Yes it’s better. Is it better enough? Not for me, and my eyes aren’t getting any younger.
I also save money, since gaming at 1080 with great framerates is much easier too. And storing 1080 media etc (hell, even 720 with upscaling isn’t too bad).
I guess my point is: come at me Netflix; keep annoying me with your ads. They literally have 0% chance of success.
T-Mobile was “paying” for a rarely-used account on my family plan. Parents used it in another state. I occasionally used it. My brother logged in once in awhile. On any given week, it might see like 4 hours of collective viewership.
Turns out TMobile’s contribution only covered the first $8. I have been paying another $10/mo. out of my own pocket and wasn’t batting an eye.
Netflix was getting $18 a month for doing almost nothing! And that could have continued for many more years without my even questioning it.
BUT… One day I couldn’t sign onto my own Netflix account that I pay for. Evidently, I’m not in my own household? That led to my discovery of the gargantuan amount I was paying for a service I barely use anymore.
So now, thanks to their greed, Netflix gets $0 from me. And not a single family member has phoned to ask why Netflix no longer works.
Some executives in Los Gatos may soon learn Econ 101’s supply-and-demand curve.
Some executives in Los Gatos may soon learn Econ 101’s supply-and-demand curve.
Sadly, I’m confident they have a very good understanding of micro and macro economics and understand this action WILL cost them customers, but they’ve also calculated that they’ll make MORE money by removing the features and abilities that existed in the product before the change.
They made this decision to earn them more money, and they’re probably right.
What these economists always fail to capture is that people prefer using services they are happy with. They figured they could lose a certain amount of users because the remaining users will remain and pay more per person. What they fail to take into account is that the people left are going to be way less happy with the service, and actively looking for replacements.
It's the same story all over. And unlike Reddit and Twitter, Netflix was actually making a profit.
What they fail to take into account is that the people left are going to be way less happy with the service, and actively looking for replacements.
That’s built right into the Elasticity of Demand. The economic term phrase is search for substitution.
"When consumers make buying decisions, substitutes provide them with alternatives. Substitutes occur when there are at least two products that can be used for the same purpose, such as an iPhone vs. an Android phone. For a product to be a substitute for another, it must share a particular relationship with that good. Those relationships can be close, like one brand of coffee with another, or somewhat further apart, such as coffee and tea. "
What this means is they can actively calculate the number of subscribers they will lose when they increase the price of the product. They can also calculate the amount of more money they’ll get with higher subscriber fees. They compare the two numbers and choose the one that makes them the most money.
They can (and indeed do) calculate the direct effects by the price increase, and the initial loss of users is expected.
What I think they lack good models for is customer loyalty in a deeper sense. Sure, a lot of people are going to stick around in the short the short term, but Netflix is completely eradicating the competitive advantage it had a few years ago. These decisions might very well maximise profits in the short term, but in the long term I think they're undermining the very things that made Netflix such a success in the first place.
Crazy to charge extra for what would be considered the default TV resolution in 2023, imo. Not even going to touch on how fake of a comparison that is.
I really wouldn’t mind the increased rates/quality scams/etc. if their library wasn’t such rubbish. There was a time when they had so much good stuff that I didn’t have time to watch it all. Now? They have a handful of good shows drowned out by Is It Cake? and other shite.
Yeah, I used to happily subscribe to Netflix because anything I could want was there. Now I use it on a family plan on occasion since it already existed, but there’s no way I’d pay for it so I could watch like 2 shows and 4 comedy specials a year, and have to find everything else somewhere else.
I was happy with YouTube and just purchased things there but recently you can’t watch beyond 480p in any browser except for Safari. So fuck that too.
The HDR part is what kills me, if anything HDR seems to compress better than SDR. So it’s not even a bandwidth thing to provide 1080p HDR.
And the 4K upcharge was fine when I could share it with my siblings since it gave us 4 streams at once. Now I only would need 1 stream, so I can’t even get the full benefit of what I would pay for.
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