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Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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Post by rayiner »

rorykoehler wrote: post #114
rayiner wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Riding in the HOV lane when you’re alone is also convenient. That doesn’t mean you’re not a degenerate for doing it. If you don’t like the terms on which people have offered their work, by all means, take your business elsewhere. There’s literally nothing stopping you from instead consuming the work of indie artists and producers who choose to make their work available more widely. (It’s also not fair to those indie…

The degenerates in this case are the copyright holders. They ruin it for everyone as usual with their shortsighted greed.

Yeah! What terrible people! Not offering content that they created, or paid to have created, for less than what people are willing to pay for it!

If there is anything that is entitled to be sold in a profit-maximizing manner it’s copyrighted content. We’re not talking about a public good, or monopolizing a pre-existing thing. If Marvel (or some other company) didn’t make Avengers, it wouldn’t exist in the universe. Nor are we talking about something essential, like food, or housing, or medicine. If you don’t watch Avengers, you’re fine. Any rationalization for consuming the benefit without paying the desired price is entitled nonsense.

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Post by WomanCanCode »

I'm noticing that my child doesn't even like or watch anything on Netflix kids. Youtube actually has a more appealing kid contents. I think what Netflix is missing is the daytime talk show/news reporting/ sports. They don't have good movie selections. And their sofware/app is terrible. You cannot find anything anymore. They keep on changing the order of my list and they also put different poster for the same title/content. This gets confusing, when you start watching something, only realizing you already did, a couple of months ago. Just the poster of the show/movie has changed!

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Post by richliss »

I'd not touch Netflix shares with a barge pole.

They're a great tech company but their original content, on the whole, doesn't do it for me to keep the subscription any more. I think I'll be subscribing again in the winter and watching everything at once then cancelling again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...

Out of the 22 drama shows on that list that are still on-going I'm definitely interested in 4 of them and probably will watch 2 others. That would probably take 2 weekends and the weeknights to watch all of it.

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Post by scrollaway »

dcosson wrote: post #83
JauntyHatAngle wrote: post #39

As someone who recently cancelled my Netflix subscription after idly flipping through it and realising nothing here holds my interest anymore, I feel like many of the reasons people pirated TV/Film content in the past (and Netflix helped to reduce by many-fold) have now returned with a vengeance. I'm on Australian Netflix, and the selection of titles has steadily diminished from an already reduced catalogue to the sa…

> This makes the piracy route become more and more attractive again - and I don't like that this is the case. I want to pay people for their content. People like to say this, but, no offense, it just doesn't seem true. It sounds like a justification. (And I'm not judging, I'm just not convinced by this reasoning). Signing up for 3-4 streaming services is pretty easy. If you use something like an apple tv or fire tv y…

There's excellent Plex servers for Piracy is definitely more convenient nowadays.

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Post by distant_hat »

Additionally, one of the reasons for signing up for Netflix in India was that they were not into the silly government censorship rules. But then they folded like a cheap lawn chair when government made some noises, so why bother with them when the good international series make no sense or have important bits chopped out? https://www.businessinsider.in/As-it-seeks-to-grow-in-India-...

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Post by refurb »

axaxs wrote: post #128
refurb wrote: post #101

My uneducated prediction: The next recession is triggered by a number of major Silicon Valley business models failing (e.g. Netflix, Uber, etc).

But the models haven't failed. If anything, they've proven success. Netflix's success has spawned what, 8 or so competitors now? Uber, 4 or so. I may be off, just what I'm thinking of in my head. So, it may be fair to say that SV businesses will fail, but definitely not their business models.

I don’t think anyone has proven the Uber/Lyft business models can be profitable. I don’t know enough about Netflix to make that claim.

My thought is if we see major SV business models fail, you’ll see capital pretty quickly dry up, the stock market take a hit, which will cause more capital to pull out, lower confidence in the economy, etc.

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Post by ChamindaV »

Surprise nobody talked about bland PC content that Netflix, Hollywood etc., are now stuck with. Netflix audience is too big and wide, they can't make any non-mainstream Hollywood content without offending some group of people who will use social platform to quickly kill any show.

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Post by newen »

notatoad wrote: post #66
newen wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it annoying how content is so easily discoverable in YouTube but with Netflix, it's almost like the site is actively trying to stop you from discovering new content in there. For example, I share a Netflix account with a relative who has somewhat different tastes from me and I find shows/movies on her account's front page I find interesting that I would never have found on my account except if I search for tha…

I think you might be underestimating the brilliance of YouTube's algorithm. There's no other video service that comes close. I have the same complaints about Netflix's discovery UI, but it's way better than Amazon's recommendations.

You're likely right about Youtube's recommendation algorithm being much better than Netflix's. But I was thinking more in terms of how Youtube's UI allows for much easier exploration compared to Netflix. For example, when I click on a video, Youtube gives you a huge list of related videos but Netflix gives you a small list and only for some movies/shows.

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Post by superasn »

The best part about Netflix was their recommendation engine at least in the beginning. Now they have their own shows which they want to force down our throats match or no match. I think their USP at least to me was their great recommendations which is totally lost now because of their ulterior motives.

Coincidentally I too am going to cancel my subscription this month.

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