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Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by AviationAtom »

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-...

Was going to post this, but you beat me to it. It was neutered very quickly after her special was down-voted into oblivion, not long after it was gutted.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by scott_s »

tele_ski wrote: post #48
jdamon96 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what causes you to say much despised? I personally enjoy thumbs up v thumbs down - I find with 5 star ratings systems people resort to extremes and usually use it like a thumbs up/down anyway (1 star or 5 star)

I'd prefer up/sideways/down. Sometimes I watch things that are brainless, they aren't thumbs up worthy but they are not totally thumbs down either. But if this was hiring a sideways is always down in my book, so I could see why it's not totally useful.

"Sideways" exists: don't rate it.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by Someone1234 »

hanniabu wrote: post #73
Someone1234 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If that were true, wouldn't the actual recommendations be better rather than substantially worse?

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by phreack »

DAE know if this would prevent previews for other shows from playing during the credits of a filn or series finale? It might seem petty but not being able to watch the credits and reflect in peace (without a frantic run to disable the auto-trailers) was my tipping point and I promised not to go back until it was possible disable it.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by philipkglass »

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 Netflix Prize competition launched in 2006, before they had started streaming anything. The problem was to recommend a huge DVD-by-mail catalog to millions of users. By the time the competition finished in 2009, streaming was already growing rapidly. Nowadays their DVD business is a small footnote to their streaming business. The streaming catalog is much smaller than the DVD catalog and the consequences for starting to stream a show/movie you don't like are much smaller; you can back out and immediately start something else. You don't have to wait days to return your unsatisfying DVD and get a different one in the mail.

Netflix has ~6,000 items to recommend to streaming customers in the US [1]. This is about 6% as much content to recommend as the DVD-by-mail service has. Their streaming catalog size is actually shrinking over time [2]. Fine grained rating systems and better recommenders aren't going to move the needle much for Netflix's current business, because they now have a content availability problem much more than a discovery problem.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1013571/netflix-library-...

[2] https://www.streamingobserver.com/netflix-movie-library-shri...

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by briandear »

gdulli wrote: post #64
scrooched_moose wrote: post #12

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I'm pretty sure the new recommendation algorithm is basically just "recommend Netflix originals in a random order". Edit: I feel like I should add something besides a snarky comment: I was searching for a mid-2000s Best Picture Nominee a few days ago (something like Munich or Capote, but don't remember). Results 1 & 2 were The Irishman and Marriage Story. None of the other non-Netflix best picture nominees were anywh…

There's a law of conservation of advertisement. It's not like you were going to get away from ads forever when switching from real TV. I prefer the purely interstitial (untargeted) commercials from real TV. With a DVR I can fast forward them, or always at least mute. Having Amazon/Netflix "recommend" things to me through what should be a functional unbiased system is more insidious.

Ads in the middle of the show? No way. It’s literally an interruption.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by mr_custard »

pgrote wrote: post #47

Excellent. Now, I'd like to see them do this: 1) Quit emailing me/sending notifications to keep watching shows I start and don't like. 2) Bring back a purposeful, decent recommendation system. 3) Allow filters so only movies/shows in your language or dubbed in your language are shown. (...or just some kind of filter.) Thanks.

The in-app notifications are nnoying for sure, but I've never received emails from them.

Email prefs are here: https://www.netflix.com/EmailPreferences

Marketing prefs are here: https://www.netflix.com/MarketingCommunications

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by srathi »

dylan604 wrote: post #34
rconti wrote: post #16

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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).

Yeah, I really don't know why UI/UX designers feel the need to highlighted selection to be so minimal. HBO Go's highlight isn't much better than Apple's

Same issue with many apps on NVidia Shield TV.
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