In the UK only 4 of those movies are on Netflix
Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
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#62When I want to watch a movie, and it's not on Netflix, I generally do not watch that movie. I wonder who this benefits.
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#63Here in Canada almost all English language content is licensed to a single company, Bell. They systematically deny any access to Netflix and started their own service, Crave TV. They are the one responsible for the great Proxy/VPN banning this year. They are taking advantage of a government granted monopoly they had in the 1900's and now control a disproportionate amount of the media in Canada.
Off topic, but... > They are the one responsible for the great Proxy/VPN banning this year. At first, I thought this meant Netflix banning all use of VPN for streaming. Searching news articles shows in fact a Rogers VP rep had called on the government to outright ban VPN universally[1], but this was back in spring 2015. You are saying this has actually been made law and is enforced? How did this pass when major corpo…
It's not yet banned (Hospitals still use them, as do all major corps). I found the following post as late as Dec 2015 but nothing later than that.[1]
[1] http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/liberal-government-may-blo...
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#64And of these 31 remaining almost half are missing in the Swedish Netflix: 5. Back to the Future 6. Gladiator 7. Sunset Boulevard 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. Django Unchained 12. Reservoir Dogs 13. Braveheart 17. Amadeus 21. Trainspotting 24. There Will Be Blood 25. Spotlight 26. The Princess Bride 27. Zootopia 29. Jaws 31. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl And yet Netflix want the same monthly cost for…
Yes, also in Sweden and when I once tricked Netflix into showing the US library I kind of wanted to cry. Now I'm tempted to make a pretty graph of "Movies and TV shows per dollar" for the countries they're established in. Should be pretty interesting. I expect major differences.
Not a "per dollar" graph but still a graph just how big the different catalogs are:
http://cordcutting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/netflix-ca...
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#65It sucks that Netflix is pushing their own content as a solution. Don't get me wrong, some of their own content is great, but I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content, I want to subscribe to one. Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again.
> I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse. I know people hated it, but there is something to be said about traditional TV and how it's consumed. Having a centralized menu/guide of all the content you can view makes it much easi…
What we're getting isn't a la carte; we're getting a bunch of bundles with more chaff than wheat.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Off topic, but... > They are the one responsible for the great Proxy/VPN banning this year. At first, I thought this meant Netflix banning all use of VPN for streaming. Searching news articles shows in fact a Rogers VP rep had called on the government to outright ban VPN universally[1], but this was back in spring 2015. You are saying this has actually been made law and is enforced? How did this pass when major corpo…
It's not yet banned (Hospitals still use them, as do all major corps). I found the following post as late as Dec 2015 but nothing later than that.[1] [1] http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/liberal-government-may-blo...
This is _insane_ if it actually happens .. a move I want to compare to China, except here it's the government bending to the will of a corporation, not the other way around!
Dumb stuff is proposed all the time in US proposals[1,2] but with great effort they get rejected (not all, sadly).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...
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#67I'm a subscriber for a couple weeks now, and I've run out of content I'd like to watch in my free month. The homepage is filled with stuff I'll never watch, and I can't even tell them that fact. There is no button to hide stuff. Back to piracy I go.
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#68I was about to complain about the lack of 8+ IMDB rated films on Netflix UK, but after doing some research[1] it's actually quite high.
Although one thing I did notice by picking a handful of random films is that some are rated 8+ but only have 50-100 votes, which reminded me of this excellent article by Evan Miller on how not to sort by average ratings[2].
Personal opinion now: I'm more of a movie person than a TV series person, but I do appreciate some of the Netflix Original series, but I'm finding it harder and harder to justify the monthly cost when I also have a NowTV movie subscription which seem to have more decent films and are regularly updated (even though research[3] shows they don't have many 8+ movies)
[1] https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movies?providers=nfx&rating_imd...
[2] http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
[3] https://www.justwatch.com/uk/provider/now-tv?content_type=mo...
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#69It sucks that Netflix is pushing their own content as a solution. Don't get me wrong, some of their own content is great, but I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content, I want to subscribe to one. Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again.
> I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse. I know people hated it, but there is something to be said about traditional TV and how it's consumed. Having a centralized menu/guide of all the content you can view makes it much easi…
There's nothing wrong with à la carte offerings. The failure is charging $10/month for every service.
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#70Netflix's real value is in binge-watching TV shows. I wouldn't be surprised if movies just don't get the viewers to justify their cost. As a non-stop Netflix subscriber since 2004, I've only streamed 1 or 2 movies in that entire time (although my kids have).
You and others would presumably watch more if there were more better (especially recent) movies to watch. Personally, I keep my minimal Netflix DVD rental subscription mostly to trickle in the previous year's Oscar nominations etc.
>I wouldn't be surprised if movies just don't get the viewers to justify their cost.
Presumably that is also true. Whatever deal the content providers are offering, Netflix doesn't see the ROI.
To your broader point about TV vs. movies though. A former senior technical Netflix guy once told me that "People come for the movies and stay for the TV shows." (And this was before they had nearly as much original content.)
The danger to the studios here seems to be if people just get out of the habit of watching movies as a format. But that's probably a pretty big leap from where we are today.