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Author seems unaware that Apple is already in the streaming space also. Otherwise, yea Concast et. al. Seem to have their heads in the sand.
They spent the last 10 years conducting massive studies of what people like to watch. If they weren't able to come up with some hits after that, then they weren't trying. Somewhere behind the scenes, Netflix is applying sabermetrics to Hollywood. Except it's worse than in baseball... Unlike Oakland, all their competitors (except maybe Amazon) can't just copy their approach, because all their data is private, not publ…
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I don't think the entire massed effort of the entire entertainment industry for all time can provide 6 hours/day of "stuff that is not shit." Roughly 6 hours/week is close to doable for the current industry if they don't make too many mistakes. Reality TV began with GenX/millenials (MTV in the '90s with The Real World) and I'm not familiar with people older than that who watch that. I say that; I'll watch Counting Ca…
Did reality TV begin with Real World on MTV? What about shows like "Cops"? I think that predates Real World.
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I have Amazon Prime and I've been forced to pirate the content because their streaming app on the Roku 3 sucks ass. On the same device, the Netflix app never buffers (I have a 55 Mbps connection). So, I recently downloaded a series I was watching. Turns out, I had paid for it (Hannibal season 3), in HD. Just couldn't stream, over a few days, without stopped. So, torrenting I went. I have the same complaint about HBO…
It could also be congestion at the peering points your ISP uses to connect (directly or through transit) to Amazon or HBO. I think Netflix also still uses caching boxes in a few locations, but they are being phased out. In other words, there are a lot more variables in the equation than just your home network and the Roku app.
Proof? I don't see any indication at https://openconnect.netflix.com/ that their appliance is being phased out.
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Netflix is super cheap, and obscenely easy. It's more difficult to pirate than to watch something on Netflix, which should really be the goal of any service. For me, it's almost entirely that it's easy. Aside from Daredevil and a handful of their comedy specials, I haven't watched any of their produced content, and I'd be just as satisfied if it didn't exist.
The Hollywood movie selection (non Netflix produced) is pretty horrendous. They have a fair amount of TV shows, but the movies are absent.
If its not on Netflix, its on your preferred torrent site.
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The Hollywood movie selection (non Netflix produced) is pretty horrendous. They have a fair amount of TV shows, but the movies are absent.
As always, licensing issues. Hollywood (just like music artists on Spotify) want more than their content is worth. If its not on Netflix, its on your preferred torrent site.
I'm got too much to lose to be messing around with torrents. I just want to pay something and get the content I want. For now, that's cable TV, not Netflix.
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It could also be congestion at the peering points your ISP uses to connect (directly or through transit) to Amazon or HBO. I think Netflix also still uses caching boxes in a few locations, but they are being phased out. In other words, there are a lot more variables in the equation than just your home network and the Roku app.
> I think Netflix also still uses caching boxes in a few locations, but they are being phased out. Proof? I don't see any indication at https://openconnect.netflix.com/ that their appliance is being phased out.
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What are you talking about?
Of the eight shows listed in the first image, Man in the High Castle, Ash, Expanse and Fargo are all NOT available on Netflix. That's half.
Don't know if the catalogue is the same here in the UK than in the US, but in the UK Netflix is only good for TV shows. The movie offering is very light. The other thing is the lack of offline viewing, which is useful when travelling. The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet.
>The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet. Part of the problem is the broken status of international copyright law and the many incompatible local laws and regulations. If the international community could at least settle for an standard approach to digital distribution over the internet, the world would be a happier place for con…