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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by dv_dt »

ericmcer wrote: post #246
pallas_athena wrote: post #86

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It would be all better (for the customer) if video streaming services were like music streaming services. Want to hear an album? it's on Spotify / Apple Music / Deezer / Qobuz... You pick the one that offers the best user experience (or unique features like HD songs). Exclusives are basically non-existent.

So an independent studio would produce a show, put it on all the platforms and the platforms would pay based on views? Sounds like youtube. The current model works because producing a television show is way more complex than making an album, it is way too much risk for indie companies to absorb.

Where precisely is the risk? If you already produced the content why not make it available on multiple streaming sites? Is it the production studio asking for exclusivity or the streaming outlets?

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Post by duxup »

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…

> trash telly

It's not just Netflix.

Disney+ has a bunch of National Geographic infotainment ... minus the info type shows.

HBO is going to end up with Discovery Channel ... stuff.

I want some way of telling them "I don't want to wade through crap..."

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Post by system16 »

tonightstoast wrote: post #268
system16 wrote: post #252

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Apple TV+ has really surprised me. They've quickly become my favourite streaming platform, and somehow even got me interested in Major League Soccer (a sport I didn't even follow previously) enough to subscribe to their MLS Season Pass. I really hope they don't fall into the Netflix habit of cancelling shows before they have time to find their groove (Mr. Corman was really creative and just getting good and got axed)…

Mr. Corman was tough to see cancelled but that show was hard to watch. It was scarily depressing and I while I think some people say they want a show like that, I don’t think it pulled the viewership numbers to keep it on air.

Very true. It also didn't help that the little promotion they did framed it as a comedy.

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Post by alimbada »

hinkley wrote: post #245
gandalfian wrote: post #207

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Severance, I turned the playback speed faster by 20% or something and it actually became much more pleasant to watch with wierdly no adverse effect?

I really wish YouTube allowed 1.10 playback speed. It’s just fast enough to save you some real time on long video series, but slow enough that you can still absorb difficult subjects. Even slow talkers become fast talkers on 1.25 speed. 1.10 is perfect for most audiobooks.

SmartTube (for Google/Android TV) used to allow this but a recent update has removed the other speed increments and it now only lets you use the usual increments you find on YouTube. :(

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Post by phpisthebest »

Varqu wrote: post #65
MadSudaca wrote: post #42

It's funny. Right now I have access to around 5 streaming services while I only pay for 2. My girlfriend's friend has access to Netflix, my sis HBO. I provide access to Disney+ and Prime to my family. I used to get YT premium from my sis's boyfriend, but they detected I'm not in the family household and they kicked me out. If it wasn't because other people use my accounts (and I use theirs), I wouldn't be paying for…

It's interesting to see that free market competition actually worsened the customer offering when it comes to streaming services. Back in the days, Netflix was a one-to-see-all service and that was also one of the reasons why it took people from torrenting to paying for movies. Nowadays, if you want to watch a particular movie, you have maybe a 10% chance that it is available on the streaming service that you are cur…

Nothing in your post has anything to do with free markets... markets maybe, but copyright is not a "free market".... it is by definition a monopoly

a free market in content would be requiring the copyright holder to following something like FRAND for patents, and disallow them from making "exclusive" deals with one provider, this would then mean the market would be on price, speed, other competitive factors not on content library

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Post by throwaway290 »

rtpg wrote: post #270
throwaway290 wrote: post #213

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That international content is quantity but not AAA quality. Dark is probably among the best and it doesn't clear the bar... 1899 is better, but cut short after 1 season. Most others are noticeably low budget.

What quality bar does Dark not clear? American shows do of course get wild budgets and can do some crazy stuff, but there’s good international tv

My personal bar of what counts as AAA I guess? It actually started quite well, but second half of the series drags down the average in terms of story/screenwriting/camera/VFX. It doesn't stand near the likes of Foundation, Game of Thrones, Mrs. Maisel, Mr. Robot, The Wire

Doing TV is a marathon, perhaps Dark showrunners are more of sprinter people and should do movies instead.

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Post by stronglikedan »

howinteresting wrote: post #269
hinkley wrote: post #245

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I really wish YouTube allowed 1.10 playback speed. It’s just fast enough to save you some real time on long video series, but slow enough that you can still absorb difficult subjects. Even slow talkers become fast talkers on 1.25 speed. 1.10 is perfect for most audiobooks.

There's a bookmarklet for that: https://andrewsteele.co.uk/stuff/youtube-playback-speed-book...

Only works with web based viewers, unfortunately.

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Post by finnish-food »

manmal wrote: post #184
finnish-food wrote: post #104

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I just went under the hood in Plex and changed all the app icons and names to Netflix and my dumb family has no clue still. Just fool the normal people into a better UX.

Are you using Overseerr too? I wonder how discovery would work in your case, if people believe they are already on Netflix.

https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/

https://www.rapidseedbox.com/blog/plex-meta-manager-guide#05

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Post by cynicalsecurity »

Proven wrote: post #120

If you lose users (and costs) but not customers, that's not so bad.

You can also anger users which will destroy their loyalty. And without their loyalty, there will be no profit.

Part of the fun experience of using Netflix was account sharing with your friends. It was a social aspect that contributed and encouraged keeping the subscription. Without it, using it alone is getting really boring.

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