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Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by Throwawayaerlei »

ehvatum wrote: post #988
DonHopkins wrote: post #901

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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…

> Racist homophobic bigots hate "woke" content There’s no accounting for taste. You should not be so fast to hate; it prevents you from understanding that which you wish to change. After all, we’re talking about entertainment, not war. Aren’t we?

Actually, we are talking about war, a cold civil war in the US and a lot of the West, and often hot shooting ones in the countries in which we foment color revolutions, the Ukraine being the current extreme example of that.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by i2shar »

bobitsaboy wrote: post #855
zmmmmm wrote: post #775

All the handwringing over Netflix subscriber loss seems to be overlooking the fact that they raised their prices - significantly. Of course they could lose subscribers from doing that. But 200k subscribers out of 150 million? Combined with the end of the pandemic and sky high inflation meaning many people have less opportunity to watch and less money to spend. The fact they raised their prices something like 20% and…

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.

Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost their jobs.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by OzCrimson »

There's one part of the article that I think deserves more attention. I see Netflix in a big disjointed mess of entertainment.

I've got Netflix and then someone will tell me about something very interesting on Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO, or Showtime. I'm not gonna sign up for Hulu just to watch 1 movie or a series. I'm not gonna give Comcast more money just so that I can get HBO and a whole lot of other channels that I don't want.

And the marketplace is so complicated. I can pay Comcast to get the History Channel (and a lot of channels that I don't want) or, I could go to another steaming service and get History Channel, but you've gotta look into the details to discover that the "new" episodes are actually 1 season behind.

So, when I think about dropping Netflix, it's not because Netflix in and of itself is lacking or too expensive. It's more about throwing up my hands and quitting the madness of the whole marketplace.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by j4yav »

lostgame wrote: post #707
j4yav wrote: post #671

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I have been rebuilding my DVD collection through thrift stores. It’s incredibly cheap to do so now, and pretty fun to see what you find.

I think an issue for me that prevents me from collecting DVD’s, to; say - collecting CD’s - is that while a CD from the 1980’s is pretty much the best quality of audio you can still get today, DVD’s unfortunately suffer from an issue where the SD quality has aged very poorly, and the difference in resolution and image quality is insanely noticeable on, especially 4K, TV’s. Of course, since CD’s are uncompressed audio…

Some DVDs are definitely noticeably low quality transfers, but the vast majority are are fine. I have a 60” 4K screen and don’t really notice in a way that bothers me, at least.

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Post by WelcomeShorty »

i2shar wrote: post #992
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.

Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost t…

Sign in to Netflix.

Click the down arrow next to the Profile box. Choose Manage Profiles and select a profile.

Under Autoplay controls, uncheck Autoplay next episode in a series on all devices.

Also uncheck Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices. Choose Save.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #847
AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #829

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This seems like a way of sugar-coating the actual content strategy Netflix deploys, which has much more to do with product placement than it does content production. Their strategy is to align their content productions with the brands that best correlate with their subscriber base. In so doing, they can create lucrative deals with brands where their products are intricately woven into the stories/narratives of the sh…

I hope those advertisers feel like they got their money's worth, because I can't remember a single brand from Stranger Things

How could you have missed all the Coca-Cola in that show?!

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by brimble »

WalterBright wrote: post #803
brimble wrote: post #728

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I would do a whole lot more digital rentals if the prices weren't so damn high. How is it that it can be significantly cheaper to rent the physical disk than to stream the movie once? How can I watch 20 hours of stuff on HBO in 4k for like $10 or $12 or whatever that runs now for a month, but a single 2-hour movie is $5? It'd also help a lot if I didn't need a different "app" for every store, with its own player UI.…

> How is it that it can be significantly cheaper to rent the physical disk than to stream the movie once? The cost to build out the infrastructure to stream movies is tremendous.

Is it somehow cheaper when it's a subscription, and when the set of things you might start streaming isn't "this single thing I just paid for" but "anything in your catalog"? Because they don't just give a discount for that—they give a tremendous discount.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by CryptoBanker »

amerkhalid wrote: post #870
RajT88 wrote: post #861

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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…

It is same situation at our home. My wife finds plenty of things to watch on Netflix. I rarely do. When we want to watch something together, we are renting on demand movies or even driving to redbox and picking up some snacks at the same time.

+1 here. My wife loves their romantic reality shows and the Asian dramas. I on the other hand haven’t watched anything on Netflix by myself in years

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by i2shar »

WelcomeShorty wrote: post #995
i2shar wrote: post #992

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost t…

Sign in to Netflix. Click the down arrow next to the Profile box. Choose Manage Profiles and select a profile. Under Autoplay controls, uncheck Autoplay next episode in a series on all devices. Also uncheck Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices. Choose Save.

Had done that (obviously), didn't work on Chromecast with GTV. Had called customer support and filed a technical ticket. Nothing happened. Too late now.

Re: The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

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Post by fmajid »

bobitsaboy wrote: post #855
zmmmmm wrote: post #775

All the handwringing over Netflix subscriber loss seems to be overlooking the fact that they raised their prices - significantly. Of course they could lose subscribers from doing that. But 200k subscribers out of 150 million? Combined with the end of the pandemic and sky high inflation meaning many people have less opportunity to watch and less money to spend. The fact they raised their prices something like 20% and…

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.

Same here. There is literally nothing I want to see on Netflix since The Witcher season 2 ended. Same with Disney+. Oddly enough Amazon has the most compelling content, and I'd pay for Prime even if they didn't offer streaming, so it's essentially free for me.
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