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Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

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Re: Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

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Post by mac01021 »

abritinthebay wrote: post #5
tyingq wrote: post #4

I wouldn't dismiss their competition either. I specifically paid for Hulu solely for "The Handmaids Tail", an incredibly well done drama. ( https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/ ) Still dwarfed by Netflix with a ~$10B market cap, this battle isn't over. Amazon has a decent shot as well.

It’s also not zero sum though. There doesn’t have to be just one successful company standing.

Is it not zero sum? In other words, is there a way that Netflix and Amazon Video can cooperate with the result that each earns more income than would be possible if they were purely competitive?

There are only 8 billion people in the world, and each can spend at most X hours per day watching streaming video. It seems to be clearly in the interest of each provider to try to obtain all X of those hours.

Re: Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

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Post by amorphid »

mac01021 wrote: post #20
amorphid wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the Handmaid's Tale, but it drives me bonkers that they release new episodes at the rate of one per week. Release all the episodes in one day darn it! Making me wait pisses me off and (as I'm discovering) want to complain about it online.

Why don't you wait until its all been released to watch it, just like you would have to if they released it all at once after producing all of it?

I don't want to risk spoilers. Any Game Of Thrones fan will relate to that concept.

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Post by acover »

mac01021 wrote: post #20
amorphid wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the Handmaid's Tale, but it drives me bonkers that they release new episodes at the rate of one per week. Release all the episodes in one day darn it! Making me wait pisses me off and (as I'm discovering) want to complain about it online.

Why don't you wait until its all been released to watch it, just like you would have to if they released it all at once after producing all of it?

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Re: Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

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Post by ericd »

abritinthebay wrote: post #6
phobosdeimos wrote: post #2

Actually it was pirates who did that in the late 90s/early 2000s. Nobody was showing Naruto except kazaa. But noone ever gives them credit.

Because the implied point is about it being mainstream . Which what you’re describing explicitly isn’t.

It was very mainstream, at least amongst students at the time.

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Post by lostlogin »

pinoyathletics wrote: post #22

I havent watched normal television is so long. Cause there is never anything good on anymore. Its either Youtube, Streams or Netflix now from here on in. Even DVDS got phased out.

> DVDS got phased out.

Good. Between DRM, regions, anti theft videos and scratches, I’d given up in them before there was a good alternative.

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Post by tomjen3 »

mc32 wrote: post #12

As Netflix becomes a bigger player around the world and it flexes its influence, I expect to see some international jurisdictions to question its power and imperial projection (projecting its values on countries with different values as well as for threatening the viability of local industries)

There has already been issues with the EU, where they have required (or considered requiring) them to use local content.

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Post by ferongr »

forapurpose wrote: post #9

Netflix seems to be creating original content all over the world, which is great. I've seen Netflix original movies and shows offered from Spain, Brazil and many other countries; the quality is much higher when you take the best from many places, and it's enriching and challenging to see other cultures - even via an LCD display. One odd and disappointing thing we've noticed: Unless required by the script, almost all…

Indeed, someone must come up with a final solution to the Caucasian question.

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Post by dang »

ferongr wrote: post #28
forapurpose wrote: post #9

Netflix seems to be creating original content all over the world, which is great. I've seen Netflix original movies and shows offered from Spain, Brazil and many other countries; the quality is much higher when you take the best from many places, and it's enriching and challenging to see other cultures - even via an LCD display. One odd and disappointing thing we've noticed: Unless required by the script, almost all…

Indeed, someone must come up with a final solution to the Caucasian question.

Race-war comments aren't allowed here. We ban accounts that post them, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

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Post by lostlogin »

tyingq wrote: post #4

I wouldn't dismiss their competition either. I specifically paid for Hulu solely for "The Handmaids Tail", an incredibly well done drama. ( https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/ ) Still dwarfed by Netflix with a ~$10B market cap, this battle isn't over. Amazon has a decent shot as well.

Is this downvoted for the typo (which I like) or something else?
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