74% of Netflix Subscribers Would Rather Cancel Than See Ads

I also hate commercials. I DVR everything I watch so I can zap the ads, but I got Netflix so I could watch stuff without commercials. They even strip the commercials out of shows like AMC that have commercials originally.
 
SGTGimpy said:
Though some of the shows come up as not part of the no commercial plan and you get an ad before the show starts and after
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How the hell do they justify that? Doesn't sound like "no commercials" to me. Maybe they need another tier...
 
SGTGimpy said:
Also it is not Netflix's fault that they don't have that much content for the UK. That is the media rights holders fucking Netflix and you as the customer. This is the same reason why Netflix has a stale library here in the US. The content providers are the ones that control the deals for what Netflix can and is able to purchase from them to stream to you. So you may want to go tell BBC and Sky to stop rapping Netflix for the content you want to watch.
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While I am sure you are right, content providers want too much money. I would hazard a guess the opposite is true also, Netflix is willing to pay a pittance. While cable service with commercials for $50-100 is certainly a rip, you can't get all content for $10 a month no commercials either.

A few years back the CEO straight up said they wanted cheap content to keep costs down. Netflix didn't want to replace cable just be a cheap alternative to some content not all. These comments were in regard to speculation of offering tiered pricing.

The success of their own programming probably encourages continued reduction in spending on 3rd party content. Netflix will become a channel/content creator like HBO etc most likely. That is how the TV/media business works, Opera dramatically increased the money she made from her one show by moving it to her own channel and filling the dead air with cheap filler. All the channels do this, come up with 1-2 good shows fill the other 22 hours with garbage, move good content to another channel so they can keep charging for more channels.

The all you can eat everything for $10 can't be sustained. Old content becomes worthless as new content is added and the same price per month is charged, eventually Netflix has to raise prices or offer tiers of content to pay for it all. They could cycle old content, I suppose. Though it just comes back to them making more money with their own content as they are doing.
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
What are they ?

Its obvious isnt it ?

Fuk as in ”you dumb fuk" and shite as in "netflix is a pile of".

It is funny that someone from a country which stole and bastardised the english language is trying to pull me up regarding it.
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America didn't steal the language.... Being mostly colonized by the English we spoke, and continued to speak English. A colonized country isn't going to suddenly make up a new language just because they broke away. We also did our damndest to stomp out the indigenous peoples so their languages certainly weren't about to become the norm.

As for bastardizing it, a Scotsman once told me that the only proper English is the Queens English. Somehow I doubt she speaks in the same manner of English as you.

As to your rant about Netflix. It's the content makers and providers that put pressure on them to stop VPNs. It's a game of give and take, realistically account sharing isn't allowed either but they don't enforce it and I'm sure that the copyright holders would love that each person had to pay to see. As good as netflixs shows are they still can't fill a catalog by themselves so they can't burn all their bridges.
 
The above two posts are literally the most off topic posts I've ever read.

At any rate, I would drop Netflix in a second if they added advertisements. I quit cable because I couldn't stand it and would be more than willing to pay an extra 5-10 dollars a month just to avoid ads.
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
Actually the french was your main ally during the war of independence, so why dont you speak french ?

You didnt want anything to do with britain so you accept help from france which was a major player in the region at that time, yet america continues to speak english, at that time both languages were just as prevelant so you had a choice.
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If America, didn't want anything to do with Britain, they probably wouldn't be around anymore. I believe the french wanted to team up with america to destroy britain after the war.

But regardless, how does the french helping in a war, has to do with speech? That's quite a bridge there.

Anyway, I wonder how many would drop netflix, in total though. I mean, some people can put up with a lot, as can I... but ads can be annoying.
 
SLee said:
It never was, cable was initially to allow people to watch the broadcast networks when they didn't have good or any OTA reception. It then added additional networks, some which were premium and ad-free like HBO and some which were ad-supported like TBS.
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negative,

Cable was commercial free from the time of conception up until about the late 90's We used to have music videos on MTV and VH1
 
I thought cable back in the 80s was to have a clearer signal. Since everything was over airwaves. TV reception sucked most of the time. And cable was the answer.
 
SGTGimpy said:
You know Netflix and Plex are two totally different things right? Like one is Nascar and the other is naked valleyball different.
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Maybe for you. My 1500 movies and 45 complete TV series says otherwise. I can also add content whenever I want the moment it comes out.

No, Netflix, Hulu, and Prime combined don't have shit on my personal media server.
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
negative,

Cable was commercial free from the time of conception up until about the late 90's We used to have music videos on MTV and VH1
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You really think in the mid 90s that networks like ESPN, A&E, Discovery, USA, etc didn't have any commercials?

Galvin said:
I thought cable back in the 80s was to have a clearer signal. Since everything was over airwaves. TV reception sucked most of the time. And cable was the answer.
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Yes, cable has never been purely ad-free. Cable is just a way to transmit more channels with less interference and started out as a way for more people to see broadcast networks like CBS and NBC (networks who have always been ad-supported). The first basic cable network was the predecessor to TBS and that started in 1976.
 
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SLee said:
You really think in the mid 90s that networks like ESPN, A&E, Discovery, USA, etc didn't have any commercials?


Yes, cable has never been purely ad-free. Cable is just a way to transmit more channels with less interference and started out as a way for more people to see broadcast networks like CBS and NBC (networks who have always been ad-supported). The first basic cable network was the predecessor to TBS and that started in 1976.
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actually since I had cable back them, yes
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
actually since I had cable back them, yes
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You must have been watching something else since those networks have always had commercials from their start in the 70s and 80s. The only networks that didn't have commercials were premium networks like HBO.
 
I would cancel if video ads or even semi-intrusive banner ads were shown. The wife digs Hulu Plus (ad free version), we have Prime that is getting used more and more, we Sling from my mother's anything the wife "just HAS" to see, and a pretty significant library served from home that will have 8 more 8TB drives added to it shortly from the Newegg 2 for $359.99 8TB external drives (which will be tested and ripped from the enclosures).
 
SLee said:
You must have been watching something else since those networks have always had commercials from their start in the 70s and 80s. The only networks that didn't have commercials were premium networks like HBO.
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MTV was commercial free
Discovery was commercial free (all of their networks)

ESPN, never had it so I cannot comment

HBO Skinamax and sluttime used to have upcoming movies between movies aka a primitive program guide with the latter 2 doing soft porn after 9 or 10 pm
 
Mut1ny said:
Maybe for you. My 1500 movies and 45 complete TV series says otherwise. I can also add content whenever I want the moment it comes out.

No, Netflix, Hulu, and Prime combined don't have shit on my personal media server.
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Did you pay for any of that?
 
Quix said:
I would genuinely be willing to pay twice as much for Netflix, but one ad I'm gone.
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i'm in the same boat.. for the amount of content i watch and rent on netflix for 20 bucks a month it's a steal. i'm still not a fan of amazon prime video yet, their user interface blows and it's a pain in the ass to find anything.
 
Add me to the list.
If Netflix wants a CRACKLE like channel that is free but you must endure ads ever 5 minutes, that is fine.
But not for a service I PAY for.
 
I'd cancel if they showed ads during TV shows or movies. One or two 30 second ads before/after a show would be OK. But I don't ever see Netflix doing ads. They'll just continue to raise the price every few years. My sub is going up to $9.99 in October and that's still a great bargain.
 
*sigh*

Guess it's about time to get my TV Torre...I mean Linux ISOs again.
 
Wouldn't even have a second thought. Netflix just isn't as attractive as it once was.
 
Would be nice if they could just have products in the shows, but then you would have companies like "Coke" dictating things in the show.
Although, house of cards, uses MS products, i wonder if they get advertising money for that?
As for ads, i would not mind them in the browser section, not during, or before i watch something, and if it lowered the monthly cost. Then i could accept ads in the browser section.
 
Spidey329 said:
They could do what a lot of the networks have done and streamline he ads into the original programming. Ford is a heavy contributor to this, I see the character randomly talks about the features of the new car in so many shows, it's clearly an ad, but it doesn't take you out of he show.
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what the hell? That absolutely takes me out of the show
 
HBOGO shows ads for their own content before every show now, and that alone has been annoying the fuck out of me. Start Game of Thrones, have to watch trailer for Ballers, Silicon Valey & Vice Principals. I know they just want to make sure you are aware of new seasons, but just fucking display it prominently in the app at the top of the screen or something. Quit showing me a trailer every single goddamn time I go to watch every episode of something. Thats how I find new shit on Netflix.

As for Netflix, I'm on a pretty fine line with them to begin with. I'm one of those "pirate if it's inconvenient" folks. Meaning I'll pay Google Play $5 to stream the next Star Wars or something, but if they do that teaser bullshit where they initially offer it "for sale" for $29 for the first 2 weeks before putting it up "for rent" fuck em, I'll pirate it. Same thing with Netflix. I'm trying to be a good little boy and play by the rules and maintain your $10 sub, but if you piss me off, I'll just look up all of your shows and download them online.
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
MTV was commercial free
Discovery was commercial free (all of their networks)

ESPN, never had it so I cannot comment

HBO Skinamax and sluttime used to have upcoming movies between movies aka a primitive program guide with the latter 2 doing soft porn after 9 or 10 pm
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There was a brief time where the PayTV services were ad-free, in the sense it wasn't products. But they still needed their channel to line up on the hour like everyone else and they'd add bumpers extolling the virtues of the service you were already paying for, even for networks they were re-broadcasting. That's why you'd see the little white square in the upper left; it was the signal for downstream to insert their bumpers. Canadian networks did this as well; sometimes they'd be sleeping at the switch and you'd get the wrong commercial for a few seconds until they cut over.
 
I watch a few TV series on Netflix, but I can't recall when I've actually watched a movie.

I already pay out my ass for cable, so mostly I stream HBO, Showtime and BBC America.

I hate commercials, which is why I pay for premium cable shows ( I don't think I'd have cable if it weren't for my internet service and sports)

My kids do watch a lot of Netflix, but they even said if they start commercials they'll stop watching.......and save me $100 a year!!!!
 
Not gonna lie, I stopped using torrents and usenet for movies because of Netflix and Redbox. They offered the content I wanted to see at an affordable price and how I wanted to watch it - Ad free.

My incentive for NOT using Usenet again would vanish with a quickness if I had to deal with Ads to watch movies.

EDIT - oh yeah, when cable FIRST came out (I remember when it rolled out in my town for the first time; the box had a wired QWERTY remote even) there were not commercials. Maybe it was different in other markets in the U.S., but I remember that was a big draw of cable. Pay the premium for Home Box Office, "crystal clear" 240p quality, and no commercials.
 
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So, we have Netflix with adds for $10 a month or add soaked cable TV for $75-$125 a month...seems like a no brainer? So much entitlement these days.
 
The whole point for me is and Netflix is that she doesn't show me any ads. If she does then I'll kick her to the curb.
 
Someone needs to show this study to Jeff Bezos. Fucking Amazon Prime on my Kindle stick shows me unskippable ads for original prime shows all the fucking time. I will NEVER watch "Hand of God" or "Catastrophe" just because they bombarded me with these stupid ads so many times.
 
Looks like Netflix wants to innovate by bringing us on demand cock blocking. Commercials are so hot when you're trying to watch a movie with your significant other, almost as hot as those FBI warnings on Bluerays.
 
Todd Walter said:
There was a brief time where the PayTV services were ad-free, in the sense it wasn't products. But they still needed their channel to line up on the hour like everyone else and they'd add bumpers extolling the virtues of the service you were already paying for, even for networks they were re-broadcasting. That's why you'd see the little white square in the upper left; it was the signal for downstream to insert their bumpers. Canadian networks did this as well; sometimes they'd be sleeping at the switch and you'd get the wrong commercial for a few seconds until they cut over.
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that is not rally a commercial that was the 15 minute break between shows.... where they told you what was coming up for the rest of the night...
 
Bowman15 said:
So, we have Netflix with adds for $10 a month or add soaked cable TV for $75-$125 a month...seems like a no brainer? So much entitlement these days.
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I'm extremely confused as to why you're so tacitly anti-consumer. Cable companies are terrible therefore you're entitled for complaining about ads on Netflix. It's the non-sequitur of the week. I don't have to watch TV and if it comes down to ads on TV vs no TV, I pick no TV. Netflix is a service that I'm paying for, that is considering changing the service in a way I don't like, I'm perfectly within my rights to say I'm planning to cancel if they do so.

You sound like a sheep being led to slaughter.
 
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