Netflix lowering standard subscription fee to $6.99/month and offering special package for $9.99/month in 2014

As we all know, with a new year comes changes and sometimes those changes can be confusing. Take the new fee pricing test from Netflix, offering a two options for customers currently paying $7.99 per month. These new prices will either reduce your monthly fee to $6.99 per month or raise it $9.99 per month, depending on what you want from the online streaming video service. Of course the drop in price sounds inviting, but what exactly would you be losing?

Slashfilm reports:

At present, Netflix's standard streaming package offers HD video and simultaneous streaming for two devices for $7.99/month. There also exists an $11.99/month family plan that allows up to four high-def streams at once ... the new $6.99/month subscription would offer just a single stream at a time, in standard definition, whereas the $9.99/month one would provide up to three HD streams.

This news might sound inviting or even a bit devastating depending on how you look at it, but according to Netflix chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland, they"may not be something we ever offer generally."

"We are always testing new things," he said in regards to this new pricing platform.

Although this might not even come into play any time soon, the rising prices for content have already affected Netflix. The start of 2014 say a number of titles being removed from the website's catalog (click HERE to read more on that), so who's to say that subscription prices wouldn't change, too?