yeah right BBC ,who told you that anyway ?
Wonder how many cancelled?
The 1 million from last year? Thats not on the same timeline as the gains they received.
The article published the new total number of subscribers which is growing nicely. It’s less relevant how that number is growing for netflix. The databis taken from their quarterly report, by the way. You can read it yourself too. Here’s the letter to the shareholders. By the way, presenting false information in those reports as a public company is a criminal offence.
I’m not particularly surprised. I think a lot of people are using it for free because they can.
They still value Netflix, but why pay for it if you don’t have to.
For some reason I’ve not been kicked off my parents account, but if I were kicked off, I’d subscribe.
I’m torn between both sides of this argument. If I lost access to Netflix I wouldn’t be too bothered. But, I also understand that other people see the value in it and would be happy to subscribe if they lost access to an account that was shared with them.
Well I’m not in the states so it has all the shows my wife and I typically binge and leave on in the background while we work.
- Star Trek
- friends
- the office
- modern family
- big bang
- other stuff she watches like cooking shows.
Most of this could be saved to a server and streamed, but Netflix is also dirt cheap in the country where I live. Maybe like $3/month or something like that.
I figure the cost of streaming is less than what I pay in electricity for my home server, so I can just turn that off when not in use to save power.
I mean, why not? It is convenient, and to me, really well priced for what you get. There’s lots of things that offer far worse value for money that we don’t really think about.
And I host my own Plex server with Sonarr, Radarr, etc. But sometimes, you just want to jump into something, and TV series can take a huge amount of space.
I don’t know why Netflix is considered so morally repugnant, when they do still offer a good service for the money.
Convenience is worth something to a lot of people.
i just want to point out that the claims in this article are from Netflix ,so take them with a grain of salt
they are in their official quarterly report and not in some press release though aren’t they?
if they lie on that it could have some bad consequences
They also stated
While the company added subscribers, it said average revenue per member fell 3% from a year earlier. That was partly because many of the new sign-ups came in countries where Netflix charges lower prices.
Yeah, the people in this thread including (and specifically) the OP are worse than reddit at its worst in terms of confident ignorance.
They reported these numbers in their quarterly reports. A company that trades on a public stock exchange is required to release quarterly reports that accurately represent their business.
Yes, companies like to play around with which metrics to report on to paint it better than it actually is, but the numbers can not be made up. If they say new subscriptions, it had to be new subscriptions.
While I’m not particularly happy about the change it’s not password sharing being banned that will eventually get me off Netflix. For now what keeps the sub going is their good and varied kids show selection with a lot of edutainment. Something I feel the others desperately lack. And any parent who has ever tried sailing the seas instead of paying knows how much of a pain in the ass it is to find good kids content and enough of it to guarantee you have something available when it’s desperately needed to make the day work. Especially when your mother tongue isn’t English. And YouTube is mind cancer for kids in my firm opinion; if you don’t sit and watch with your kids which defeats the purpose of screens as a tool for when you need to cook, clean and work.
The people who shared our sub were mostly family that when we started sharing were students without the means to reasonably pay for it themselves but now they have jobs and some even kids so our family has gone from 1 sub to 3 that I know of.
TV? Like IPTV you mean? Haven’t had regular TV since moving out two decades ago. I could but naturally my kids have all already experienced the “select what you want to watch” era already so putting that genie back is just unnecessary conflict and borderline cruel. And IPTV services also cost money unless you go the free piracy route but then reliability goes out the window in my experience.
I’d just let my kids play with bugs/friends outside then tbh over paying for netflix
Same here. My children, mainly my daughter, use Netflix MUCH more than my wife and I. So the “just pirate the stuff” doesn´t really apply. If I want to see a specific movie or series, sure. But my kids don´t even watch with the intention of finishing a series or whatever. They browse and watch what catches their eye. That can´t be easily done with pirated stuff. And for me and my wife, it´s kinda similar. We don´t have the time or interrest to watch that many movies. Most of the time, we have like an hour to spare, we plop down on the couch, browse through what new cooking or duocumentaries there are and just watch something.
Now, at the moment, we still use a friends account. Seems like the “Kids” profile still works and on mobile everything still works fine. But as soon as that´s over, I can´t promise that I won´t have to get my own account…as much as it saddens me.
that’s awesome mate, I will be saving this for later for sure.
Clicked through and saw the Thomas show- absolutely loved that one as a kid. Will say, the narrator that replaced Ringo, Carlin, and Baldwin has one of the most irritating voices I have ever heard. It’s still soothing, but annoying in a weird way that I don’t know how to describe
Sure for just the content aspect absolutely. But it won’t help them be up to date on the current Pokemon season etc. which will make it harder to be part of the schoolyard small talk.
why don’t you just teach your kids to be pretentious hipsters from a young age and let them look down upon other kids for being part of the mainstream?
I’m in the same boat. I pay for a couple streaming services just because they have the shows my kid enjoys. It’s so hard to find good sources for kid’s shows that are actually quality and not either ancient or abandoned. Even popular/new shows can be hard to find, whereas every throwaway netflix original has seasons available from multiple different release groups.
Kid’s shows are really the weakspot of piracy for me. Thrift store DVDs help a lot, but it’s always older stuff and never whole seasons of shows.
I’m on the same boat but worse. I only let my kids watch shows in Spanish. Its impossible to find Latin American Spanish kids shows on the seven seas so I’m stuck with Netflix because they actually have good translations.
why don’t you teach them english? Legit question. I went through the same thing when I was a child and eventually learn english by the age of ~7/8
This is good news. Means they’ll leave us alone.
