Neon Price to Increase to $15.99 from 17 May 2021

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#284362 16-Apr-2021 11:09

Just received in my email:

Price Change

Hi <customer name>,

We're getting in touch to let you know about an upcoming change.
On 17th May Neon’s monthly price is increasing to $15.99. Why? We've been hard at work improving Neon and making sure you can enjoy awesome TV shows and movies like The Handmaid's Tale, Yellowstone and New Amsterdam.

You don’t need to do anything, your Neon subscription will roll over at $15.99 per month on or after 17th May, unless you cancel before this date.

To find out your next billing date, you can login to My Account.

Pay less on an annual plan! From 17th May we're offering an annual subscription for $159.99. You save 16% or $31.89 compared to 12 months on a standard monthly plan.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us. You can chat with us from 8am to 10pm Monday to Friday or 8am to 9pm at the weekend or by filling out a contact form.

Thanks for being a Neon fan – we really enjoy having you around!
The Neon team

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#2693784 16-Apr-2021 13:06

"hard at work improving Neon".... yes since they took over the Lightbox platform the addition of higher bitrates, 5.1 audio, frame & dynamic range matching on the Apple TV app, an easy way to access and manage your watch list, an easy way to remove items from the continue watching list, plus countless other things I can't think of right now, certainly justifies the increase in price...

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#2693802 16-Apr-2021 13:28

I imagine their 17 subscribers must be *furious*

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#2693884 16-Apr-2021 15:49

The email was perfectly timed to remind me to cancel our subscription with a couple of days to spare. So I've already saved $13.99.

Yes, Neon playback and operations have improved but we wouldn't take an annual subscription because we would run out of shows and movies we wanted to watch. We've switched to Amazon Prime, as we do every six months.

Compared to other services I find that Neon is reasonable value for money. It has the best variety for me. But a price increase goes against the market trend: free Apple TV+ keeps being extended and Amazon Prime have dropped the price we pay.

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#2693904 16-Apr-2021 16:47

For that price we need 4K and 5.1 - any updates on their tech?

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#2694017 16-Apr-2021 21:45

At least they're not using Flash anymore, I guess.

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#2694038 16-Apr-2021 22:29

At the old price would've dipped in every now and then for "His Dark Materials" and other shows of interest.

Won't be subscribing at all now, cheaper services that have dolby digital 5.1. etc, so they'd need to get 5.1 before I'd pay that money.

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#2694083 17-Apr-2021 10:21

openmedia:
For that price we need 4K and 5.1 - any updates on their tech?

lightbox supplied this. It's more a content question

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#2700066 30-Apr-2021 12:06

I received an email from Spark yesterday advising that I'll need to pay more for Neon. It has been $9.95/mth via Spark, but will now be $11.99/mth.

The quality of new content has gone WAY down since Lightbox merged with Neon. I'm in two minds whether or not I'll keep it.

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#2700083 30-Apr-2021 12:34

Maybe Sky are lifting prices as they need to recoup revenue loss from Facebook now that the Neon app has been outed for (previously secretly) sending their users information to Facebook, presumably for financial gain.

thread here

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#2700131 30-Apr-2021 15:09

catspyjamas:

The quality of new content has gone WAY down since Lightbox merged with Neon. I'm in two minds whether or not I'll keep it.

It's funny you say that. We've had the exact opposite experience. Since the merge, we were able to get rid of the far more expensive HBO subscription we were parallel importing. And in addition to the expected content from there, we've discovered all sorts of awesome new shows to watch. Notable stand outs are Bulletproof and The Nevers.

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#2700137 30-Apr-2021 15:39

I'm not a big fan of the HBO content. Personally I like British dramas which used to feature prominently on Lightbox but I haven't seen as many since the merger.

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#2700511 1-May-2021 16:44

alasta:

I'm not a big fan of the HBO content. Personally I like British dramas which used to feature prominently on Lightbox but I haven't seen as many since the merger.

Bar a handful of HBO shows, I feel the same. I've noticed the British drama content go down too, sadly, and also the Scandi Noir content which Lightbox did a lot of. Can't get enough of that stuff.

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#2700521 1-May-2021 17:57

catspyjamas:

I received an email from Spark yesterday advising that I'll need to pay more for Neon. It has been $9.95/mth via Spark, but will now be $11.99/mth.

The quality of new content has gone WAY down since Lightbox merged with Neon. I'm in two minds whether or not I'll keep it.

Lightbox was almost sold to TVNZ, imagine how good that product would have been..

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#2700524 1-May-2021 18:20

$2. Ouch. I'll get a second job and send the wife out cleaning to pay this exorbitant increase... /S

Probably be simpler to have Sky provide all content as a monopoly, probably be cheaper lol

All of these that bleated about Sky, well hello, its free reign now, enjoy :-)

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#2700536 1-May-2021 19:21

tdgeek:

$2. Ouch. I'll get a second job and send the wife out cleaning to pay this exorbitant increase... /S

Probably be simpler to have Sky provide all content as a monopoly, probably be cheaper lol

All of these that bleated about Sky, well hello, its free reign now, enjoy :-)

If you don't mind adverts in the programs. That is the big difference with using online streaming, there are no ads on the pay services, but heaps of ads on the free ones. .

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