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Netflix users face price hike next month

Customers are being “ungrandfathered”.

SOME NETFLIX USERS are facing a €2 per month price increase from May onwards.

People who were among the first to sign up to the online streaming service when it came to Ireland will see their monthly fee of €7.99 increase to €9.99 if they wish to continue receiving a full high definition service.

Alternatively, users can continue paying €7.99 per month for standard definition content which can only be viewed on one screen at a time.

Since October new subscribers have paid a monthly fee of €9.99.

Netflix flagged a price hike in May 2014, which allowed existing customers to stay on the €7.99 tariff for a two-year period.

Notification 

In a statement, Netflix said: ”Last October’s price increase for newer members included a one-year hold and will go into effect in October of this year.

The company described the process as users being “ungrandfathered” and said the price increase announced two years ago will start coming into effect from next month.

“Impacted members will be clearly notified by email and within the service, so that they have time to decide which plan/price point works best for them.”

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    Mute Des Leavy
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    Apr 19th 2023, 11:32 AM

    Methinks the DUP will continue to find excuses not to restart the Stormont Assembly until the next election cycle because they didn’t like the result of the last ones.

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    Mute Joe Johnson
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    Apr 19th 2023, 3:48 PM

    @Des Leavy: Yea agree and the DUP MPs in Westminster are riding roughshod over their own MLAs in Stormont.

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    Apr 19th 2023, 9:26 AM

    You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink as the old saying goes but if he doesn’t drink he will die and I think that is what,s happening to the DUP at this stage the horse has shot himself in three of his legs so there is just one left

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    Mute Paul Shepherd
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    Apr 19th 2023, 10:01 AM

    Can’t imagine two failed, incompetent politicians like Truss and Johnson are going to bring much to the party?

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    Mute M Bowe
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    Apr 19th 2023, 11:02 AM

    @Paul Shepherd: Truss is over to have a ganders at those “ few farmers with turnips in their trucks”!!!

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    Apr 19th 2023, 1:10 PM

    @M Bowe: and Johnson probably thinks a work event so he’ll have a suitcase full of booze from Tesco….

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    Mute Barry Delaney
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    Apr 19th 2023, 1:49 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: I was wondering exactly the same. Two hard line Brexiteers who are along with the DUP responsible for the current mess.

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    Mute Carrickview
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    Apr 19th 2023, 8:08 AM

    Biden describes himself as Irish-American where he identifies strongly with an external Irish culture but is American nonetheless. Likewise,Varadkar and Sunak are both Indian-Irish and Indian-British on the same basis and depending on how much identify with the external Indian culture.

    Neither Sunak nor Varadkar is biracial as the invalid biological notion of ‘races’ is a throwback to another era where a section of influential English society saw themselves as an Anglo-Saxon ‘race’ with an imperative to be aggressive and exterminate native cultures.

    The Brexiteers are among the last of that section of their society with their total disregard for the island of Ireland along with the hapless Unionists who identify as Irish-British as they a born on the island of Ireland and identify with an external British culture.

    To tackle an artificial races/racism conviction inherited from dangerous people in the 19th century is an enormous endeavour yet, almost immediately, readers can see how absurd the whole thing is. It is on this basis that people on this island both North and South move forward and influence the wider world when it comes to the invalid notion of ‘races’.

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    Mute Rob Duggan
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    Apr 19th 2023, 8:50 AM

    But, none can influence Donaldson and his DUP share power or engage in the process he walked out on 25 years ago.
    What the DUP want is self justification and they have been consistent?
    It’s a perfect example of the importance of identity.
    is it a microcosm for Brexit?

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    Mute Liam Dunne
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    Apr 19th 2023, 12:53 PM

    The most important people here are the DUPs financial backers. The business people of NI will have the final say.

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    Mute Peter Jo
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    Apr 19th 2023, 6:55 PM

    Stop paying their salaries, and that might focus their minds on getting back to work.

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    Mute P. V. Aglue
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    Apr 19th 2023, 11:01 AM

    Varadkar sunaking up to bill for forgiveness over his paddy’s day joke gaff

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    Apr 19th 2023, 11:04 AM

    @P. V. Aglue: poor syntax

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    Mute Shesh
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    Apr 19th 2023, 2:32 PM

    The DUP don’t care about what is happening right now. They keep saying the same thing over and over again in a different words: either 100% what they want or no agreement and no power sharing.

    So all those flights of important ppl back and forth are and were pointless.

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    Mute Joe Johnson
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    Apr 19th 2023, 3:52 PM

    @Shesh: Don’t agree because now the whole world knows what a bunch of dinosaurs the DUP really are.

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    Mute Joanne Folan Healy
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    Apr 19th 2023, 2:53 PM

    As the camera pans around there’s Leo Varadkar picking his nose…

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    Apr 19th 2023, 2:58 PM

    Any disccusion about bringing peace at your home punjab!

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    Mute Owen G Mc Ginley
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    Apr 19th 2023, 6:38 PM

    Could we just stop talking about the Political Situation in Northern Ireland for the next 100 Years, and hopefully by then the DUP might have moved an inch or so.

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    Mute Declan Moran
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    Apr 19th 2023, 7:02 PM

    Our great national broadcaster can’t be bothered showing coverage of this today. Not even on its news channel. Sky news showing all the speeches live earlier. Then again, not surprised by them

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    Apr 19th 2023, 7:56 PM

    Ireland england scotland all indian people this must be a first well done folks thats impressive

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    Apr 19th 2023, 5:55 PM

    You know if you take the most rabid unionist and republican lock them in a container, and don’t let them out until they sort out there difference or one kills the other . Either way you would have movement.

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    Apr 19th 2023, 2:01 PM

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    Apr 19th 2023, 3:29 PM

    @EmmaH: Are we going to talk about Leo or Rishi?

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