Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

Post by mercurial » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 6:20 AM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #58

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Speaking of exclusive content, I highly highly recommend Netflix's "Daredevil" (a TV series they developed with Marvel). It's seriously some amazing content.

Seconded. The fight choreography and photography are as good or better than John Wick if you're into that sort of thing. That hallway fight scene was amazingly well done. The casting is quite good too. (Although the actor could learn a couple of things from Chris Gorham, who did a really great job of playing a blind guy on Covert Affairs.)

Post by digitalzombie » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 8:11 AM UTC

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When Netflix first started, they were able to buy the streaming rights to old movies and TV shows for cheap, because executives thought they weren't worth anything. Now those contracts are expiring, and the studios want to jack up the rates or start their own service. Netflix is also getting squeezed by ISPs like Comcast, who want to charge them for the right to deliver video to Comcast's customers who already paid f…

You mean when Netflix streaming started - they've been around for a long time doing DVDs :).

Post by alessioalex » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 8:56 AM UTC

mercurial wrote: post #61

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Seconded. The fight choreography and photography are as good or better than John Wick if you're into that sort of thing. That hallway fight scene was amazingly well done. The casting is quite good too. (Although the actor could learn a couple of things from Chris Gorham, who did a really great job of playing a blind guy on Covert Affairs.)

Thirded. Another thing that sets it apart from other superhero shows is that how, after a while, the series spends time showing the main villain, who gains a human dimension.

Post by lmm » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 9:04 AM UTC

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It's nice to know that the other people watching a show are also at the same point as you are (or relatively close), allowing you to speculate on what might happen next in the time between episodes. I also like looking forward to the next episode, which doesn't really happen when you can watch that next episode immediately (and self imposed waiting doesn't feel the same).

> It's nice to know that the other people watching a show are also at the same point as you are (or relatively close), allowing you to speculate on what might happen next in the time between episodes. The shared cultural experience is nice, but utterly foreign to those of us outside the US, where the discussion arrives weeks, months, or even years before the show.

Post by sschueller » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 9:21 AM UTC

pinaceae wrote: post #49

I guess there is another, very big reason: The Non-US markets. The US is surely important, but Netflix has launched in Europe and faces a huge obstacle that very few US Americans know about - rights licensing is far worse. Selling content overseas is a huge business, which means a giant time delay until something makes it to, say, Germany (even if not dubbed). Which worked in the past, but the Internet is forcing rea…