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They all just want to slam you with what they want you to watch but make it intentionally difficult to just pick up the last thing you were watching. At the same time they roll new shows off that banner so fast you forget you were watching episodic weekly content.
UX across the board has been ruined by marketing majors.
"Curation" is happening on streaming sites only in the same sense that Amazon suggests you re-buy the same toothpaste you've purchased before. The term implies two ingredients: not just a notion of what might appeal to others, but also the considerable personal experience of the curator. Knowledgable human beings have the remarkable ability to make non-linear associations.
Early streaming experiences were more satisfying because Netflix simply didn't have much to go on. It made discovery quite a bit more interesting, and gave users more of an overall sense of what could be watched instead of the carefully concentrated homepages of today that box users into their past activities.
I'm confused why Amazon Prime is the only streaming service with something like X-Ray. I know Amazon owns IMDB, but at the very least, you should be able to see a cast/character list in all the services...even if it's not contextual to the specific scene.
I'm confused why Amazon Prime is the only streaming service with something like X-Ray. I know Amazon owns IMDB, but at the very least, you should be able to see a cast/character list in all the services...even if it's not contextual to the specific scene.
I'm guessing it's access to that IMDB database of metadata. Anyone else would need to create that or license it which if I was Amazon I would either not sell or charge out the nose for.
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Music is a creative work and people may legitimately want to consume it independently. Cast lists (and data in general) don't have copyright protection and serves little purpose except to augment the original file - both the means and the motivation aren't there.
Even if cast lists don't have copyright, they still need to source the data from somewhere. If I was responsible for this at Netflix, I would prefer to buy that data from a good quality source instead of scraping the data from external websites or running OCR on the credits screen.
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> Some shows may be cheaper to acquire if there’s promotion in the interface Something I would gladly pay to live without.
A Netflix subscription is ~$20. How much would you pay for that without the promotion/etc? It might need to be $40/m to be profitable on the marketing. Now add in the extra resources to sell direct content access, price for the fact that the market is vanishingly small, and it could easily be 10x the price. Would you pay $500/m? Now it's so expensive you're way more likely to churn, and actually they need to make bac…
But as you said, you completely made up that number. You could just as easily have made up the number $20.01.
YouTube has the best UI and Spotify has the worst. Watching Joe Rogan on TV is painful, if you ever want to pause it - which is quite often considering how long his podcasts are - resume does not work - you have to close the App and go back in - sometimes it doesn't remember where you were and starts from the beginning - fast forward is excruciatingly slow. Spotify should sack all developers who work on video they ar…
As they say, what's old is new. A lot of these problems I remember having with VHS. Tapes would rewind too slowly, or they would rewind too fast and I would overshoot. Early IR remotes had to be aimed carefully, so pausing took a few attempts. Some remotes had a physical cord, which could come unplugged. And if a tape got jammed that means pulling it out carefully, gently rolling it back into the cartridge, and since…
Not to mention if I want to watch something but I can't remember which service it was on. It'd be great if I could just search for it and then go. Or see recently played things across services.
- Continue Watching (1 row)
- My list (2 - 3 rows)
- Discover (1 row) - this can also update with the "What's new" content and algorithmic recommendations