Netflix says it's looking to "retire" its cheapest, ad-free plan in some countries, according to a shareholder letter from Tuesday.

Netflix will implement the change in Canada and the U.K. in the second quarter of the year before “taking it from there,” the letter said.

The company did not specify when (or whether) the change would impact U.S. subscribers.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    7•10 months ago

    Yeah, I own a lot of my favorites on dvd/bluray, particularly movies that for one reason or another have never been available on streaming. Unfortunately there’s an emerging trend of retailers removing DVD’s and Blu Ray media from their stores. So while physical media isn’t exactly hard to buy yet, unless something happens to reverse this trend it’s going to gradually become more difficult to buy physical media.

    • @TORFdot0English
      3•10 months ago

      If new releases aren’t going to be available in stores, I simply won’t watch them when they come to home video anymore. The upside would be that I will be more motivated to see movies while they are still in theaters which I’ve sorely lacked going to see them ever since the pandemic