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Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by personlurking »

testingonprod wrote: post #15
fsk wrote: post #10

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…

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

Daredevil is no doubt good but I wouldn't put it in the same league as HoC, as another commenter did. They could definitely go darker (though I couldn't say how, at the moment), take out the silly banter and little jokes mostly coming from or involving the long-haired lawyer.

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by dagw »

testingonprod wrote: post #15
fsk wrote: post #10

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…

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

Daredevil is fine, but it certainly isn't good enough to sell Netflix to me. Netflix with only Netflix shows isn't something I'd pay $10 a month for unless they seriously up their game. HBO is the baseline they have to match, not a goal they should hope to reach for.

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by tormeh »

personlurking wrote: post #71
testingonprod wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Daredevil is no doubt good but I wouldn't put it in the same league as HoC, as another commenter did. They could definitely go darker (though I couldn't say how, at the moment), take out the silly banter and little jokes mostly coming from or involving the long-haired lawyer.

Doesn't the light moments make the dark ones even darker, though? Or maybe that's it, that a story that's only dark seems a little silly and therefore safe, while a story that's both everyday light and really really dark becomes more unsettling because it can fit into the real world in a way?

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by danielbln »

brc wrote: post #35
FreeKill wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that one thing that's lost is the ability to discuss episodes with people as a show progresses. Since you never know what episode a person is on you can't really risk discussing things until you're sure the person has caught up. With weekly shows like Game of Thrones for instance, you can feel pretty comfortable discussing an episode amongst other fans. Not sure if that's really something I'll miss when it's…

Well there is a product/service in there. Discussion channels tied in with your Netflix Id so that you you can only discuss topics with people on the same schedule. You could also join a group which had the programming pre-determined, and drip fed the shows to you on a specific schedule, like every Sunday night. You get the benefits of a scheduled delivery of content and associated social benefits, but you also get t…

Reddit works well for that. The House Of Cards subreddit for example features a thread per episode, which has pretty much replaced my per-episode watercooler talk.

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by danmaz74 »

bjrnjs wrote: post #68
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…

HBO is global (to some degree). I live in Sweden and (if I didn't have to go to work) I can enjoy the latest episode of Game of Thrones only hours after it's aired in the US. Although we don't have HBO Go here -- we have a similar service called HBO Nordic. I'm almost certain that it's a HBO owned company, available only in nothern Europe though.

Here in Italy Game of Thrones is distributed by Sky, and for this season they went as far as airing it in English at the same time (ie in the middle of the night) as it was aired in the US.

Later the same day, at prime time, they aired it in Italian.

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by mrfijal »

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…

please stop saying global when you mean developed world. global means available everywhere, netflix is in 50 countries. in south africa for example a lot of movies are plain impossible to get legally in any format. maybe internationally is a better word?

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by kitsune_ »

testingonprod wrote: post #15
fsk wrote: post #10

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…

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

I can also recommend 'Bloodline', mainly because of Ben Mendelsohn's performance.

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by mattlutze »

testingonprod wrote: post #15
fsk wrote: post #10

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…

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

I've really found the writing to be mediocre. The storyline is compelling and the direction has done a great job with cultivating that sort of hero emotion porn we've been seeing develop in the industry the last generation. But the dialog, man, it just kills it for me.

Re: Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming

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Post by pdaddyo »

kitsune_ wrote: post #77
testingonprod wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I can also recommend 'Bloodline', mainly because of Ben Mendelsohn's performance.

Bloodline is absolutely fantastic, I've been recommending it to all my friends. I can't praise it enough - also glad there's a second season coming in 2016. Apparently the creators (KZK) have a 6-season arc planned...
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