In tech news, media streaming giant Netflix announced its new payment plan this week, which offers users the option to just browse endlessly without watching any videos.
According to CEO Reed Hastings, “For just $5 a month, we are giving customers affordable access to Netflix's most popular functions; scrolling through our robust library for titles and posters without ever deciding on a single one.”
The new plan will allow users to add titles to their queue that they have never watch and will still give customers helpful recommendations for what else to browse.
In addition to the Browse Endlessly plan, Netflix has hinted that it will add up to 1000 additional movies you have never heard of and TV shows that you kind of want to watch, but not if there is something better on.
Side Effects director Steven Soderbergh said, Netflix's new plan is perfect for the person who heard my movie was pretty good a few years ago and would like to see it, but not enough to actually sit down and watch it.
Some Netflix users have already signed up for the new plan.
[Michael Fabian (Woodfield, MA):]
$8 a month was too much, especially since I was just watching the first 10 minutes of movies before turning them off to go browse more.
[Liz Davis (Thompsonville, NC):]
The Browse Endlessly plan makes it so easy for my husband and I to never agree upon a movie. Argue about how we ruined to perfectly nice night and then sit in silence.
And responding to other popular viewing habits, Netflix is rolling out the two titles plan; for $6 a month, you can just watch Breaking Bad and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
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