Netflix is raising UK prices again – here’s how much more you’ll pay

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1. Their streaming quality is poor at best. You’re paying more for a worse service… I guess that’s the normal now, though.

2. I’ve fully embraced sailing the seas again. Also I’ve found if you go through the trouble of downloading something you’re more likely to watch it.

3. And yet the quality of content won’t go up, everything I want to watch will still be spread across 7 other services

   Thank god for physical media

4. I stopped subscribing about 3 price rises ago and haven’t looked back. What you are paying for I don’t know…their mistake for paying Harry and Megan millions for shite shows? And get the user to absorb the costs than the people who run Netflix to actually learn from their mistakes and stop making crap no one wants to watch

5. How ironic that the very streaming services that stopped me from piracy are now pushing me back to it.

   It’s already reached the point that watching everything I want legitimately costs more than renting a seedbox. The more they increase their prices, the less inclined I am to play by their rules.

6. It amazes me how much people complain, but continue to pay.

   Just stop using it. Its not even very good anymore. I mean fuck, swap to apple tv, HBO max, sky, prime, litterally anything else.

7. Meanwhile I’ve just renewed my dodgy fire stick subscription until may next year for £60. Practically every movie, tv show, and channel you can think of at my fingertips. Stop giving these clowns money

8. I would cut it straight off but I carnt my kids watch it

9. I subscribed to Netflix shortly before the pandemic. It was £9. Now it is 2x that value.

10. Sail the seas!

    I watch everything I want on one app, stremio and it costs nothing.

11. All to payout more to their shareholders. Id suggest unsubscribing from the lot and read a book or play a video game.

12. I think after Squid Game S3, Stranger Things S5, Alice In Borderlands S3 and maybe some other shows I’ve listed, if I manage to see it all by the end of this year, Im cancelling my Netflix. It’s just really not worth it after that. It’s back to the Seven Seas for me.

13. I unsubscribed during one of their earlier price hikes. £16 for the 4k option was already too much for me, forget about £19!

    Their pivot to “second screen experiences” suggests content will continue to go downhill.

14. Am I an ejjit for thinking Netflix don’t offer sufficient price differentiation and product tiers?

    I live on my own but have a 4K screen and ultrafast broadband at a gig a second. I want a 4K streaming service but don’t need multiple devices streaming at the same time.

    To get 4K with Netflix’s current subscription packages I have to also shell out for shit like multiple devices being able to stream at the same time. I don’t see why I should need to shell out for this and the other shit that is part of their package that permits 4K.

15. I had it for two months again since about 2020.

    The interface keeps on pushing the same thing, over and over and over, and I hate it. I watched the movies I wanted and got rud of it.

    I’ve really stripped back on streaming services now, I only have Mubi and Nebula, both for the year, and focusing more on Blu-rays.

16. To be honest I’ve just gone back to reading books again.

17. “Customers on the Standard tier will now have to pay an extra £2 per month, with the price of Netflix’s most popular plan jumping to £12.99”

18. I just recently bought a LG G4 TV and using netflix less and less as I refuse to pay double the price for the 4k and the quality for surround sound on normal plan is terrible.

    Been watching more on Amazon prime and Disney +

19. Am I the only person happy with Netflix?? I think there is too much to watch. I’ve always got a backlog. I don’t know how people find the time when most of us are at work 5 days a week. It’s got to be much cheaper than sky or virgin media

20. It might be somewhat controversial to praise the BBC on here, but I find iPlayer to be a pretty reliable streaming platform. I don’t watch any of the new stuff, but the back catalogue of shows is pretty good.

    Apple TV+ is also really good but the entire catalogue can be watched in a month

21. What’s the best ship to sail the high seas in? Asking for a pirate friend, of course…

22. Eh, you know, I understand inflation but they’re pushing me beyond the price point where I feel like it’s something I should just have by default as opposed to something I’d buy and cancel as shows I wanted to see came out. 

23. I an way, Netflix is a victim of its own success. Back in the early days Netflix didn’t have to spend that much on content as the studios didn’t really understand streaming and didn’t really understand the value. Netflix got good deals on big name content. Over the years it got more expensive as the revenue grew. Studios now have their own platform and keep hold of their own content.

    Although not directly related, Sky will lose exclusivity with Warner Bros. The entire industry is reshaping.

24. I quit after they got rid of the tier I was on. Probably won’t even subscribe temporarily now. I’d rather miss the shows than accept yet another price hike.

25. It’s a pirates life for me, and old school as fuck with a Torrent box/VLC server

26. I reckon that’ll shake me out of the tree.

    Netflix is just a case of scrolling through slop now. If you’ve watched the big flagship shows on it already you’re basically done with the platform.

27. Got an advert in the middle of a film the other day. Cancelled my sub instantly, could cope with adverts before and after the program but not during it. Fuck you Netflix, I’m not paying to watch adverts.

    Avast shipmates.

28. I know this will be EXTREMELY unpopular around here but why is peoples answer to being unhappy with streaming services offerings (whether that be price, service, content) breaking the law and ‘stealing’ an artists work?

    Like, if you were unhappy with a store for putting up the price of something or taking it off the shelves, you wouldn’t just steal it instead would you? (Insert you wouldn’t steal a car meme).

    Do people do it because the impact it has isn’t as obvious? Because they know it’s very unlikely they’ll be caught/punished?

    Just seems scummy to me and screams entitlement, and as I said I know this’ll be extremely unpopular on reddit!

29. One person pays. Rest of extended family gets it for free.

30. Yarr.

    Easy fix. I mean the solution to this kind of thing isn’t new. It isn’t difficult to avoid.

    Roll with the bs of the times and put up with the nonsense of it all.

    Or spend some time out on the digital seas.

31. What a surprise ~ another company putting up their prices

32. Only thing netflix really provides is a catalogue of things you might enjoy, worst case you’ll have for background. Then it’s the easy access having it on an app and tv, not being scared over how many ads will pop up. I’m honestly thinking of cancelling soon and just watching illegally with vpn

33. What do they think people will do ,keep paying more and more for nothing. Just as the BBC is finding out as more people drop the licence fee. 🚢 🚢 will be hoisting the old flags once again.

34. All these comments of cancelling and sailing seas I’m sure Netflix has crunched the numbers and they are making a decent profit and the last fee rises have not impacted them. If it does they will know about it and act accordingly. Same comments I seen about password sharing and in the end it worked outnfor Netflix

35. Netflix = high volume / low quality content

    Apple TV = low volume / high quality content

    Oh… and FireStickTricks.com 🙃

36. ||Netflix|Pirating it off the internet and sticking it on a home server|
    |:-|:-|:-|
    |Adverts|Made you pay extra for ad-free then started putting ads in the ad-free tier anyway.|Ad-free|
    |Quality|Made you pay extra for HD and 4K.|Only limited by what rips people are seeding on the interwebs, no extra cost.|
    |Availability of content|Content disappears whenever Netflix license for it runs out or just whenever they feel like taking it off you|Yours forever once you download it.|
    |User access|They restricted the number of devices you can log into to try and force you to pay them more.|Accessible over wifi by any connected device|
    |Cost|Keeps going up. Pay up now, paypigs!|Free|

    As product offerings it’s pretty clear cut. Back to TPB we go 🙂

37. I think I already know the answer, but is there any method to basically keep getting content as easily as Netflix through a PlayStation? What’s the best way to go? Download stuff on my computer to use via plex or similar? Dodgy fire stick? (no idea where even to start with that, I don’t know “a guy” and had an android box years ago that never worked but if they can now get all the streaming services and ad free YouTube then I’d love to know more ) 

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