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Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by davidkuennen »

bruce511 wrote: post #37

I see a lot of focus on the "lost 200 000 subscribers", but less acknowledgement that they kicked 700 000 Russians off the subscriber list, meaning they actually grew by 500 000 subscribers (still well short of wall streets expectation of 2.5 million.) So in one sense it's a one-time drop, not a trend. Does Netflix have more competition than before? sure. Is it growing as fast as before? no, especially as they reach…

Expectations are everything in the stock market.

If wall street expected 2.5 million (most likely based on past growth and stock valuation) and Netflix reports a growth of 500k (if you keep the Russians in mind), it's a really really terrible result. It's 5 times below expectations.

For me it looks like this could just be the beginning and they're losing a lot more in the following years.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by bradly »

FpUser wrote: post #117
bradly wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not being able to set or see an actual resolution when using Netflix on my TV is so frustrating.

Resolution on its own does not mean much. To me all that matters if it is visually ok.

It is not. It's very clearly not HD and we gigabit internet. Other services do fine. Especially rented HD movies that are streamed. So instead of using my TV for Netflix, I watch on my laptop with a browser plugin to set a proper resolution.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by marssaxman »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #110

I blame Netflix for popularizing the stack of horizontal scrolling carousel of thumbnails. It is a terrible way to browse, and so many companies mindlessly copy it.

All that automatic zooming and whirring and auto-playing as my cursor moves around drives me batty! It's so distracting - it's harder to figure out what I might want to watch with all that chaos trying to grab my attention.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by leephillips »

fullstop wrote: post #69
francisofascii wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if Netflix had a "family" plan for say $15 - $20 a month?

I hate to tell you this, but anything besides their basic plan is already in that range and includes 2 to 4 "screens" (concurrent streams), depending on the plan. It really feels like this is already a "family plan", given the number of concurrent streams permitted. I don't think that there's much fruit to be gathered by shaking this tree.

But they say all the users must be in the same “household”. I assume this means people living together, and excludes offspring off at university. But I hope I’m wrong!

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by pojzon »

yosito wrote: post #109
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #92

Honestly for me I just do not know all the content Netflix has because the browsing is so bad. I wish instead of pushing shows to me best on algorithms, it would just let me browse categories and recent additions etc in a simpler way. Maybe categorised by year.

Absolutely, Netflix would be 1000 times better if they just let me sort, filter and find content based on concrete metadata. Instead, I'm forced to rely on their recommendation algorithms that purport to know what I want to watch, but for some reason keep recommending low quality content in languages I'm just not interested in. I'd be happy if I could just filter Netflix to only show me content with original audio in…

I can assume Netflix does not have this kind of browsing simply due to amount of content they have.

Offering of Netflix is extremely poor if you crop out all the duplicate shows popping on your feed.

Ive decided to drop Netflix simply because:

- new interesting shows are popping up so rarely, there is no point to pay the monthly sub

- there is too much political agenda sold even in children shows (Kids really dont need this kind of crap)

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by nradov »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #92

Honestly for me I just do not know all the content Netflix has because the browsing is so bad. I wish instead of pushing shows to me best on algorithms, it would just let me browse categories and recent additions etc in a simpler way. Maybe categorised by year.

Back when Netflix had DVDs the recommendation algorithm worked pretty well, at least for me. It's gotten gradually worse over the years. Or perhaps they no longer have much good content, so no recommendation algorithm would work well? Either way I guess it's time to cancel my subscription.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by mywittyname »

marssaxman wrote: post #123
WillPostForFood wrote: post #110

I blame Netflix for popularizing the stack of horizontal scrolling carousel of thumbnails. It is a terrible way to browse, and so many companies mindlessly copy it.

All that automatic zooming and whirring and auto-playing as my cursor moves around drives me batty! It's so distracting - it's harder to figure out what I might want to watch with all that chaos trying to grab my attention.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck autoplay.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by xhkkffbf »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #92

Honestly for me I just do not know all the content Netflix has because the browsing is so bad. I wish instead of pushing shows to me best on algorithms, it would just let me browse categories and recent additions etc in a simpler way. Maybe categorised by year.

I have to agree. If I remember a show, I can search by name but I can only browse through the stuff that their algorithm shows to me. And that's just a few dozen titles.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by canadaduane »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #110

I blame Netflix for popularizing the stack of horizontal scrolling carousel of thumbnails. It is a terrible way to browse, and so many companies mindlessly copy it.

Can you point specifically to what you don't like about it?

Personally, my "least favorite feature" is that hovering (with mouse) over any video would auto-play. In other words, just by moving the mouse you would be under threat of accidentally distracting yourself. Maybe some people don't feel the same way, but for me, it was destabilizing to the point that I couldn't recall what it was I was searching for / interested in in the first place. I think they have "fixed" this in the past year, but there are still times when auto-play completely interrupts my thought/intentionality.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by sylware »

cercatrova wrote: post #101

It's easier just to pirate than keep up with all these streaming services. - You get the benefit of high quality (true 4k, not stream compressed "4k") and no buffering. - Plex, Radarr, Sonarr automatically downloads and categorizes your content for you, you can just sit back and enjoy your content. - Edit: Plex et al are not the *only* ways to download content, not sure why some replies are thinking so. I too can typ…

... and you are not forced to use those grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex google(blink/geeko) or apple(webkit) based browsers (and their SDKs), in other words, open source drm software which is "obfuscated" via complexity and size: you can use the media player you like, and in my case my shmol media player I wrote (using ffmpeg). This issue is actually critical as it is not really piracy as it narrows down to the right to have interoperabitily with technically reasonable and sensible software.
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