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Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by runawaybottle »

ianai wrote: post #42
rconti wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know this is going to make me sound old, but so much UI/UX is getting worse. I can't even tell which tile is highlighted on my appleTV because it's only about 5% larger than the adjacent ones. The only way you can tell is by the change as you cursor around, you can't tell at a glance (and this is on a 75" TV).

At this point I think they’re just changing stuff to change stuff. Like some new hire(s) somewhere(s) are looking to make a name for him/herself by changing stuff.

Or the cult of A/B testing has been fully implemented.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by jaymmartin »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #57
2bitencryption wrote: post #4

Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…

I don't really like star systems because I spend way too much time deciding if something is 3 or 4 stars, or 4 or 5 stars. I much prefer textual descriptions; for example "Terrible", "Don't like", "Okay", "Like", "Favourite", which has the same options as a 5-star rating system, but choosing between 3/4 and 4/5 is much easier IMHO. I don't really know of any system that uses this, except this one music player I wrote…

Netflix used to define the ratings as "Hated It", "Didn't Like It", "Liked It", "Really Liked It", and "Loved It". I didn't find it difficult to memorize.

What's to stop you from applying whatever textual descriptions you want to the numbers?

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Post by hanniabu »

Someone1234 wrote: post #11
2bitencryption wrote: post #4

Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…

It was right around the time their first "Originals" came out. I guess accurate recommendations is less important than shows with cheaper licensing costs or home-grown originals.

While I'm sure this had a lot to do with it, I wouldn't be surprised if they also came up with a better rating system using statistics on the amount of views, how long it's been out, what percent watched it all the way through, etc.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by sogen »

rconti wrote: post #16
coreyp_1 wrote: post #7

The Autoplay is REALLY, REALLY, A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G!!! Actually, I hate most of the current design (UI/UX). It's really streamlined when all you want to do is push "play", but everything else is, quite frankly, laborious.

I know this is going to make me sound old, but so much UI/UX is getting worse. I can't even tell which tile is highlighted on my appleTV because it's only about 5% larger than the adjacent ones. The only way you can tell is by the change as you cursor around, you can't tell at a glance (and this is on a 75" TV).

In Apple TV settings I enabled High Contrast. It's in Accessibility.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by hanniabu »

pgrote wrote: post #55
2bitencryption wrote: post #4

Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…

The supposedly killed it when the Amy Schumer special was bombed. https://www.whas11.com/article/news/entertainment-news/poof-...

They really messed up by not giving that to Andrew Schulz

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Post by 1123581321 »

what_ever wrote: post #44
1123581321 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot more people use the thumb system than were using the star system.

Source?

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-netflix-replaced-its-5-s...

“Netflix settled on “thumbs up/down," which is widely understood to imply that you are training an algorithm to know what you like, [Netflix’ Cameron] Johnson said.

“That simple change led to an over 200% increase” in ratings, Johnson said. The inclusion of a “percent match” number also reinforces the idea that these recommendations are personalized, he added.”

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by msandford »

I was excited about this for a minute, but then I realized I canceled Netflix months ago. This was one of the reasons. Sticky things being sticky, I'm not going to magically start paying again now that they finally undid something dumb. I'm a lost customer for a long time.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by ehsankia »

ajkjk wrote: post #70
2bitencryption wrote: post #4

Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…

I suspect there was a really good justification for this that they can't directly share with us. These sort of decisions tend to be like that. Probably getting rid of recommendations led to some massive increase in viewership that couldn't be ignored.

One person probably rated a movie they hated 1 star, whereas someone else rated it 3 star or 4 star. The inconsistency makes it hard to build a model that works for everyone. Also, the current one technically has 3 state, down, up and no vote. That's much more explicit and easy to build a model around.
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