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Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by accountofme »

srj wrote: post #917
accountofme wrote: post #860

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Netflix has good points: best ui. Good library. Their bad points is what worries me for the service: poor quality of new content. I have not seen anything that wows me for quite some time at least for my preferences (SciFi). So maybe it is for Netflix (the sky falling) things that start as a trickle might end as a flood.

Check out "Dark". I can't explain it without spoiling things but there's a significant twist a few episodes in and it goes down a wild sci fi path.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give it a look!

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by maleldil »

srj wrote: post #917
accountofme wrote: post #860

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Netflix has good points: best ui. Good library. Their bad points is what worries me for the service: poor quality of new content. I have not seen anything that wows me for quite some time at least for my preferences (SciFi). So maybe it is for Netflix (the sky falling) things that start as a trickle might end as a flood.

Check out "Dark". I can't explain it without spoiling things but there's a significant twist a few episodes in and it goes down a wild sci fi path.

The first season of Dark was released in 2017. I believe the "shit content" phase got really strong in 2020. Which is also when Dark's last season was released, and it's the weakest (IMO).

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

eweise wrote: post #675
ripe wrote: post #662

It's sad that we cannot own titles but are forced to rent them from these streaming services that can't seem to get their shit together. (Not blaming Netflix per se; this is a pox on all their houses). Used to be nice in the DVD days. I built myself a nice collection then. This was the idea behind digital rights lockers: UltraViolet, which Disney refused to participate in and which closed down in 2019, and its succes…

I don't know about movies, but music streaming is awesome. I have a couple thousand CDs that are sitting in a closet somewhere. For a while I kept them as mp3s on a hardrive, copied other people's mp3s to build up my collection. But its still so limited. I love going through my favorite artists on spotify, listening to the less popular albums I never would have bought and discovering new artists.

Could you listen to the song Cop Killer by Body Count?

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by the_af »

edgyquant wrote: post #902
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Definitely a part of it for some. Me, I cancelled due to the low quality of their catalog. A decade or so ago, they had a really strong library of media. Now they don't. What they spend their money on, I find to be severely lacking.

Seems like most content is dubbed foreign stuff now days, which I’m not at all into watching. The only thing they have at the moment I watch is Ozark and that’s ending on the 29th.

Subtitled (not dubbed; dubbing is a sin) is the best. Then again, for me all Hollywood cinema is subtitled. I wouldn't have it any other way, I love hearing the original actors speaking.

I hear in some countries like Spain, dubbing is the norm. And they are quite proud of it. I find that puzzling.

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Post by IMTDb »

DonHopkins wrote: post #901
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This is certainly part of it. There are also those who are not happy with woke content and "Anything Silicon Valley/Tech" and are walking away. Disney has the same thing going.

Racist homophobic bigots hate "woke" content, but so what? Who wants those snowflakes as customers anyway, who are so terrified of being exposed to cartoons of Mickey Mouse and Pluto having steamy hot gay sex? Let them try to cancel culture and walk away from scary cartoon animal sex all they want. How's Trump's "unwoke" social network working out? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/ted-cruz-mickey-plut... >TED…

Without being a "racist homophobic bigot", you can be tired of seing that every single TV show they produce seems to absolutely need to play the race/gender/sexual orientation bingo.

To me, it feels like the "diversity" of the characters included in a script is one of the factor that is taken into account when deciding to finance a show or not. It really shouldn't be: either a script is good enough and you should finance it, or it isn't and you should reject it. But adding artificial additional criteria just means that good scripts will be rejected and less good one will be accepted. And the logical consequence is that sometimes it feels like perfectly good stories are altered in a way that ensure more "diversity" is ensured, often times making the story worse.

And finally, casting is sometimes...weird to say the least. That does not help producing better shows.

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Post by zerocrates »

buildbot wrote: post #871
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All this makes me realize that we have Netflix and haven't really watched or enjoyed it since, I think, the Expanse. I guess we watched the Squid Game, too, but I thought that was terrible. Like a low grade ripoff of an old (and much more intelligent) manga called The Liar Game.

The expanse was sci-fi then Prime Video though?

I think maybe it was on Netflix outside the US?

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Post by Schroedingersat »

RajT88 wrote: post #861
bobitsaboy wrote: post #855

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Definitely a part of it for some. Me, I cancelled due to the low quality of their catalog. A decade or so ago, they had a really strong library of media. Now they don't. What they spend their money on, I find to be severely lacking.

They published some shareholder statement years back saying "The quality of the programming does not seem to correlate with how much most users consume". So there you go. I found the same, 10 years back I would read about something amazing and critically acclaimed -- and they'd have it! Now rarely do they. But, my wife and I still watch a lot of Netflix. It is the service which seems to have many things she wants to…

Yet another example of 'engagement' metrics ruining everything.

Lowering tye quality may not change viewership, hut it radically increases your likelihood to realise it's a pile of garbage one day and go climb a tree.

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Post by bruce511 »

rc_mob wrote: post #735
dehrmann wrote: post #266

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This is also the end of the covid bump. People might even try to make up for lost time in the next year and leave their houses more than in 2019.

You are aware covid is not gone?

Covid is not gone, but the days of people bring stuck at home, prevented from socialising, working of travelling are.

The Netflix bump wasn't caused by covid directly, but by the lock downs.

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Post by xdennis »

Stunting wrote: post #330
gruez wrote: post #178

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technically it's "copyright infringement", not "stealing"

it's very much stealing from the residual based income of the workforce required to make your entertainment.

No country in the world legally classifies copyright infringement as stealing.

You can call it stealing metaphorically all you want, but it's not technically that (as candlemas claimed).

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