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Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by BuckRogers »

yeetsfromhellL2 wrote: post #721
eweise wrote: post #675

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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.

I did the same thing. I used to put a lot of effort into getting a perfect FLAC rip of everything I ever listened to, having them on my devices, or setting up streaming from a home server. I threw that shit out a long time ago, partly because I don't listen to the garbage that I used to, and partly because I've got better things to fuss over now. The amount of time worrying about file integrity, backups, server being…

Agreed except a lot of my old CDs aren't available on Spotify. I do plan on ripping a select portion of them when I find them again. But it'll only consist of my favorite records and unavailable.

Before I do that though, I'm going to check into Youtube Music. It's possible what I don't find on Spotify is available there.

Movies, I don't find many are missing from services. Perhaps the movies I loved were less obscure than the music. I don't plan on ripping a single DVD or VHS tape.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by BuckRogers »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #933
eweise wrote: post #675

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There's a metric ton of neo-Nazi bands that aren't on Spotify as well. I don't know if it's Ice-T or Spotify stopping Cop Killer from being on the service, but Spotify and similar are private companies that don't have to host everything that they don't want.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by elihu »

dmitriid wrote: post #150
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.

After all major content providers dripped out of Netflix (Disney, Warner Brothers, just to name two biggest ones), Netflix can't afford to show you "all the content" because they don't really have any content. So they are in a desperate situation to try and make you watch anything at all.

That seems plausible. Netflix has an obtuse interface in order to obscure the fact that their catalog of content isn't very big, and has shrunk considerably in recent years (due largely to other content owners realizing that it's more lucrative to start their own streaming services rather than license the content to Netflix).

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by chii »

abandonliberty wrote: post #920
jmyeet wrote: post #894

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You focused on price and I think that's a significant factor. Where once Netflix was $8 not really that long ago, it's now $15.50, which is more expensive than HBO (and HBO Max with the merger has an even deeper catalog than it did in the HBO Now time, even though the HBO Now software and website was IMHO much better). What these media companies seem to want is for us to pay $100/month in various streaming services r…

When everything was bundled together, we complained about paying for things we didn't use. Unbundling was initially cheaper because it was just extra profit on the side. Now, it's becoming the primary business model and has to stand on its own. It turns out economy of scale is real, and we've lost it. Other people were paying for our content before, but not watching it. How does real public educational content get fu…

> a cost that needs to get covered by someone. Currently, the loyal subscribers.

Those loyal subscribers don't get anything in return for that loyalty. the nash equilibrium is therefore to not be a loyal subscriber, but only subscribe for the shortest period of time and consume the maximum possible.

Hence, eventually the service would lose all loyal subscribers.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by Longlius »

Too many foreign dramas tbh. Don't get me wrong, I don't object to their existence on the platform and even watch a lot of them. But if your goal is to retain US subscribers, it's absolutely the wrong play to spend so much of your licensing budget acquiring another mediocre K-Drama. Especially when so many good foreign dramas remain trapped in their home markets.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by aphroz »

the_af wrote: post #934
edgyquant wrote: post #902

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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.

In France the dubbing is very well done and some movies are even better when dubbed. I still watch movies in the original language with subtitles but some 90's movies like Back to the Future are even better dubbed in French. There are even YouTube channels dedicated to dubbed movies where they invite dubbing actors, etc.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by Geee »

Good movies and TV series won't probably be produced any more, ever. High budget productions just won't make a difference to their bottom line. There is so much content produced already that it's more profitable for streaming services to just keep rerunning everything.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by cjaro »

assttoasstmgr wrote: post #719
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 still buy hard media (which makes me a Luddite apparently) because I consider it art and refuse to pay for digital media that is allegedly perpetual and then one day it goes missing because the wokes decided it should be memory holed. One of many, many examples: https://screenrant.com/its-always-sunny-blackface-episodes-m... Even things like iTunes Music Store which once claimed that all your past purchases are ava…

The majority of the media I bought on iTunes from about 2006 onwards is gone. Some of the music is still there, but every music video, show, and movie is gone. If I hadn't had the common sense in high school to back it all up to my hard drive, it would be gone forever. that was a tough wake up call that I don't own any media I "buy" from Apple/Amazon/etc. I'm renting it until they're done hosting it.

Yo ho yo ho, back to my old life I go.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

BuckRogers wrote: post #942
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #933

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's a metric ton of neo-Nazi bands that aren't on Spotify as well. I don't know if it's Ice-T or Spotify stopping Cop Killer from being on the service, but Spotify and similar are private companies that don't have to host everything that they don't want.

> are private companies that don't have to host everything that they don't want.

I agree. Which is why I like to own my media.

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