Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable

Post by ghaff » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

codazoda wrote: post #247

discardable_dan wrote: post #2

I said this again recently, but it's worth repeating: Netflix is on the very fast downward slope. Their catalog is wilting, the space is heating up with well-established competitors moving in and serving the precise content that Netflix originally built their brand on, and their efforts to fund a new catalog with new IP (and taking ownership of old IP) is destroying the business model that made them so appealing in t…

This is the first time I read about a price increase and thought, “do I really use Netflix much?” Right now I use prime more often and I bounce around with various add-one’s. Right now using Paramount Plus. And the voice-overs on Netflix are down right annoying. I wish I could hide content with voice overs. The translations are terribly comedic as they try to match the mouth movements somewhat. It’s terrible. I’m tir…

Post by kmeisthax » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

J253 wrote: post #203

discardable_dan wrote: post #2

I said this again recently, but it's worth repeating: Netflix is on the very fast downward slope. Their catalog is wilting, the space is heating up with well-established competitors moving in and serving the precise content that Netflix originally built their brand on, and their efforts to fund a new catalog with new IP (and taking ownership of old IP) is destroying the business model that made them so appealing in t…

> Netflix is on the very fast downward slope I definitely don’t disagree with this, but here’s a question for people: if Netflix used their original content budget to instead procure existing content like they originally did, would this save them? This is obviously complicated with everyone creating their own streaming service to charge for their own content, but I’d certainly be happier with Netflix if I had a much…

Post by gingerrr » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

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I wouldn't write them off yet. Disney, Apple and Amazon seem the only real competitors as this is a game of scale. Disney is even more content limited and better for kids. Apple never got it right, cant see them fixing it now. And Amazon stuffed it between their mixed model where half the stuff you want to watch has extra fees + generally limited inclusive content, though the prime membership might buy that back. Bot…

> I wouldn't write them off yet. Disney, Apple and Amazon seem the only real competitors as this is a game of scale. Their play here might just be waiting for Paramount+ and Peacock to throw in the towel and license their catalogs.

Post by jdlshore » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:15 PM UTC

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Plus Arcane which is in the top 20 tv shows of all time on IMBD.

First I’ve heard of Arcane. Is it actually good and worth watching if I have zero interest and know nothing about Lol, or is it really just rated highly because of anime/gaming fans?

Post by dehrmann » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:17 PM UTC

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How would the compression change for OLED vs standard LCD etc? I guess it could be generally bad but only noticeable on a OLED?

OLEDs can display true black whereas standard LCDs cannot. If the black regions are compressed and blacks become something close to black, but not quite, it looks bad on an OLED as that region is illuminated. Netflix appears to compress blacks very heavily, so you end up with large rectangles of slightly different dark shades, none of which are really black. I'm not an expert on panel technology, but I think because…