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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Netflix is crashing BECAUSE of inflation.

You are obviously not a long time streamer. You are right that people subscribing to streaming services are becoming more price conscious... Your prediction that all streaming services are going to crash is wrong. Streaming is cheaper than cable and it is getting more and more popular not less popular. Netflix is losing subscribers because of increased competition along with their crappy programming.

Netflix just jacked their prices up at the same time more and more similar services are becoming available for less money. Others are providing programming with less wokeness for the same or less money. A bunch of them are free if you are willing to watch a few commercials... typically far less commercials than network TV. The value of Netflix was based largely on ever increasing subscribers. It suddenly became obvious that this is not going to happen. They cannot compete. As an example Netflix is now $18 a month with tax where we live with their HD package. Starz and Showtime are both offering their commercial free services in HD for less than $5 a month if you buy several months in advance. Hulu almost always has a special for a year for $1 a month for a year for HD TV with commercials and you pay monthly. Tonight we have been watching a Movie that was in theaters 2 months ago for an hour on Hulu and haven't seen one commercial yet. Paramount TV with commercials is $5 a month and they have a similar amount of programming to Netflix. Even Youtube is now showing many movies with commercials for free. Often they claim they are going to have commercials but do not. I use a $20 program to record on demand shows with commercials on my computers and then fast forward through whatever commercials they have when I watch the recordings on my TV.

18 posted on 04/20/2022 9:51:02 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: fireman15

I’ve been streaming since 2010.
And I clearly stated in my post that paid streaming services such as Netflix are on the chopping block in an economy wracked by inflation.


24 posted on 04/21/2022 4:14:54 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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