Okay, I can share a DVD with my friends or neighbours, but I can't share my account? How does this make any sense?
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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
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#292It'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…
I think a lot of people are only holding their accounts because someone they love use it for access. These people would probably cancel it first thing, if their loved ones can not use it.
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#293Netflix 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..."
> I want some way of telling them "I don't want to wade through crap..."
Yarr matey, one way do be not parting ways with coin for said services, instead making a more... equitable re-appropriation
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Really looking forward to this one..
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#295From the comments in this thread, many are not understanding that password borrowers are typically contributing to the account owner's monthly subscription, and many account owners, when faced to the full price of the subscription will eventually unsubscribe as well. 5€ month for what Netflix has to offer is one thing, 18€/month, for many, becomes an instant no-deal.
They know who all the password sharers are. They've spent months, or even years running models to predict the fallout if they cut off password sharing. None of the actual results are going to be in any way surprising to them. So while people here think they're doing this to their own detriment, their legion of scientists have already told them the end result which is obviously not detrimental or they wouldn't be doin…
They can run all the models in the world but it only takes one misunderstood factor to underestimate the fallout. I think they want the other streaming services to follow suit (like Apple with the AUX) but if the others dont bite, Netflix screwed themselves. Most of their users feel betrayed at a time where competition is more than ever. You dont have to be smart to understand its not a good move.
Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
#296It'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…
The number of movies I wanted to watch in the last few months that where actually available anywhere on streaming was devastatingly low. Some where available, but only dubbed (which I don't watch), most where not. Not even to buy.
So I now either go into my basement and look for the BluRay/DVD like twenty years ago or ... :)
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/
That and one of the great benefits of Netflix was that you could watch multiple seasons of a show, and that a season was 20 ish episodes. Now they do 7 episodes and call it a season and frequently their shows only have one or two seasons.
Short seasons are perfectly valid and have existed since before Netflix. I remember watching British TV shows in which a season consisted of six half-hour episodes, and feeling that more (and more interesting) things had happened in that time frame than a USA season of 24 one-hour episodes.
These days that’s even more of a plus. When someone recommends something to watch the first thing I check is how many seasons it’s up to, then the number of episodes, then the runtime. Shows with too many seasons of too many too long episodes are immediately ignored.
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#298Netflix 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…
Use Reelgood or justwatch to search, and you can still find good stuff.
Netflix may have a quality problem, but another one (and a much easier one to fix) is their stupid recommendation algorithm. It shows me nothing but trash and genres (like Love is Blind) I absolutely dont want to see, while I have to use a 3rd party service to dig for gems.
I cant help but wonder if thats skewing their own metrics. People are going to watch trash if thats all they present.
Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
#299Netflix 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…
Search for Korean made tv and movies. A ton of brilliant content coming out. Kingdom and D.P to name only two.
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#300Let me add a couple 100 more to that count. Did you know that netflix doesn't support resolutions higher than 720p on windows/linux? You could subscribe to the 1080p plan (like me) and the players will stream 720p videos to you with no indication whatsoever. The only way of checking the netflix video resolution is `document.querySelectorAll('video')[0].videoWidth`. There are FF extensions but they don't work for ever…
If you can't tell that it isn't 1080p, does it really matter?
What's the point of paying 65% more per month for the 1080p plan if you're just going to receive 720p anyway? Do you enjoy wasting money?