You don't need a monthly subscription to watch Netflix

NETFLIX is now allowing users to watch its content without committing to its monthly subscriptions.

By Aaron Brown, Express Affiliate Development Editor with 10 years of experience writing about the latest developments in consumer technology, product reviews, and buying advice

09:39, Wed, Jul 1, 2015 | UPDATED: 09:40, Wed, Jul 1, 2015

Customers can use the online service's cards like a pre-payment metre. NETFLIX

Customers can use the online service's cards like a pre-payment metre

Netflix has started selling pre-paid gift cards in the UK.

The top-up card allows people to send a pre-paid amount of credit to use on the hugely successful streaming service.

However – paying with a pre-paid card does not require a regular monthly subscription to Netflix.

Instead the card simply buys time on the on-demand video service. Its essentially a Netflix pre-payment metre.

Netflix Cards can be topped up too, which essentially transforms the scheme into a pay-as-you-go payment system for Netflix.

The new pre-paid cards are valuable in three price varieties – £15, £20 and £50.

Morrisons, Game, Asda, Argos, WHSmith, PC World and Currys will stock Netflix Cards in the UK.

The news comes weeks after Netflix increased the price of its streaming plan for Britons – for the second time in almost a year.