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Netflix Wants More of Your Money, but Is the Streaming Industry Getting Too Cocky?

Netflix implies its ad-supported tier is a fallback for consumers unhappy about price hikes -- but that only marks a return to an unwelcome past. Netflix Inc. once embodied the cutting edge of media, from its early days of sending DVDs by mail to its eventual transformation into a utopia of low-cost, high-quality, ad-free entertainment.Now the company appears to be taking a step backward. As it looks to bleed more money out of consumers with a new price hike announced Wednesday, the company promised that it would still offer affordability. Netflix's advertising-supported tier of service -- which launched almost a year ago -- will continue to cost $6.99 a month, a price the company calls "extremely competitive with other streamers" and better than the average cost of a movie ticket.Read: Netflix's stock jumps more than 10% on huge spike in subscribers, price hikes. Netflix said in its shareholder letter that its programming costs will be rising to about $17 billion next year, up from $
Netflix Wants More of Your Money, but Is the Streaming Industry Getting Too Cocky?

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