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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by upon_drumhead »

circlefavshape wrote: post #171
rerx wrote: post #152

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Compared to competitors, Apple TV+ currently appear to put much more emphasis on quality over quantity in their original content. I really enjoyed some shows like Severance, For All Mankind, Trying, Acapulco, Foundation. It reminds me of the time when Netflix Originals stood for content to be excited about. What they don't have is a back catalog of licensed films and shows included with the flat rate offering (they a…

FWIW I thought Foundation was incredibly poor

I really enjoyed foundation. I just had to let go of the book series and take it as a new universe and I’m really looking forward to what they do next.

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Post by upon_drumhead »

yowzadave wrote: post #227
rerx wrote: post #152

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Compared to competitors, Apple TV+ currently appear to put much more emphasis on quality over quantity in their original content. I really enjoyed some shows like Severance, For All Mankind, Trying, Acapulco, Foundation. It reminds me of the time when Netflix Originals stood for content to be excited about. What they don't have is a back catalog of licensed films and shows included with the flat rate offering (they a…

Severance was great! I watched For All Mankind and Foundation, which both had great production values but were hurt by cheesy storytelling and sometimes iffy acting. I'd love to see TV+ try something more experimental.

They’re releasing their silo series from the dust books next week. I have relatively high hopes

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Post by tomjen3 »

hurril wrote: post #90

I can understand the outrage over content, wokeness, the direction, etc. But being angry over having to pay for services rendered? Come on. Don't use Netflix (or the alternatives) as a comfy Piratebay. Get it together, we're not children.

I live alone. If I want to share the second screen that Netflix forces me to buy with my brother, why should it matter if he lives with me or not?

And don't mention TOS, they can write whatever they want in there. I wouldn't care if they didn't permit me to watch it in bed either, I watch where I please.

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Post by upon_drumhead »

pallas_athena wrote: post #150
pjc50 wrote: post #85

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As an old movie kind of guy: I don't get why nobody wants me to have a big economical catalogue of all the movies. If you want to watch stuff from before about 1990 your best bet is pirating it off Youtube, oddly. Or hoping it's part of the 20th Century Fox that ended up on Disney+. The most generous film studio is .. Mosfilm. I suppose it's fitting that the Communist movies are available for free. (Criterion looks p…

> your best bet is pirating it off Youtube From another old movie kind of guy: it's full of beautiful 1080p Bluray x265 torrents out there. Teams like VXT or RARBG release more old movies than one can watch.

I’m just terrified of using torrents. The risk/reward doesn’t match up for me. It’s easier for me to just buy the discs on eBay and call it good.

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Post by baq »

finnish-food wrote: post #91
automatic6131 wrote: post #87

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>meant to enrich the people >not to moralize to them I feel the current crop of writers employed by Disney, Netflix, Amazon etc. cannot tell the difference between these two.

No they cannot. And I am not just speaking in abstract terms, in the 1960s and 1970s (and even before) many shows were made that had a moral core but did not moralize at the audience. Shows like Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, etc. which would question or discuss complex ideas without turning them into soap operas or basic dramas. The only shows that I can think of like that now are Black Mirror or perhap…

The Expanse is pretty good .

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Post by baq »

pajko wrote: post #66
alexdunmow wrote: post #27

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Interesting you say that the content doesn't appeal to you anymore. I feel the same way. My observation is that, for the most part, most of Netflix's original content is reality TV and comedy specials. They don't even seem to be bothering to create great content like Stranger Things anymore. We are at the enshittification of Netflix stage.

Somehow good shows tend to get cancelled, and it's not worth starting to watch something if it's likely going to have the same fate. https://decider.com/list/canceled-netflix-original-shows/

Good shows are usually expensive in their first season and always in later seasons.

Expensive is a word accounting, finance and investors really don’t like.

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Post by effingwewt »

throwaway290 wrote: post #215
effingwewt wrote: post #208

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Terrible example- Amazon has nothing AAA. Rings of power looks and is written like a cheap SyFy series. No-name actors, shoddy costumes, horrendous writing. I have no idea where their money went, but money!=quality. The boys was good and went to shit. Invincible was alright, supposedly season 2 is coming 'some day'. By the time they bought The Expanse it had fallen off a cliff. Netflix and amazon are not worth the su…

If Mrs. Maisel is not AAA then I don't know what is. Probably in top 5 shows of the current golden age of western cinema and TV (yes, TV is now way ahead)

Maisel has been canceled. Ended, more specifically since apparently the creators made the decision.

Point taken, though. Still, if they only have a 1/10 chance at being good I am not taking the chance. It's like the netflix stamp is a kiss of death to me now. On the rare occasions they get it right they muck it all up after season 1.

If I hear good word of mouth about a show I may check it out, but I don't waste my time giving Hollywood the benefit of the doubt anymore. They have to prove they are worth my time and at the moment no streaming services are worth the amounts they charge.

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Post by jerrydoughan »

Jenk wrote: post #79

Netflix have really dissapointed me. I've been a subscriber since before streaming, and have even been content paying the subscription fee during the "breaks" of not using their service for up to months at a time because I so badly want(ed) them to succeed. I also understood the difficult situation they were facing when the producers of content were makkng ridiculous demands on their distribution, or worse, just pull…

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Post by m0ped »

dumpsterdiver wrote: post #156
finnish-food wrote: post #68

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“ living in the Golden era.” If you actually lived in a Golden Era entertainment would be free, quality, and meant to enrich the people instead of advertise and moralize to them. I really don’t understand how a DVD collection is an “essential service” either. Or why you would effectively choose not to look at your watching statistics and then simply buy the media you watch the most. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/1345034685…

> If you actually lived in a Golden Era entertainment would be free Who would foot the bill to produce this content? You suggest that content would be "free"... but free to who? The consumer, right? It certainly isn't possible to produce high quality films for free. People pour their blood, sweat and tears into these productions. Why should the fruits of their labors be given away for free? Would you wake up early ev…

When people talk about free healthcare, you understand what they mean, right? They're not enslaving doctors...

It's the same in this case.

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