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Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Re: Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Post by zo1 »

neves wrote: post #10
not_your_vase wrote: post #3

About 10 years ago Netflix became available in the country where I was living back then. I was very excited about it, I was on their email list for years, waiting for the announcement. As I got the email that they are available, after work literally the first thing I did was to grab my credit card, and subscribe. I found 4-6 movies I wanted to watch, but when I saw that they had Godfather 1 and 3 without 2, I had a g…

If a movie has a Netflix label in it, it is a sure signal of a bad movie with a boring script made based on data.

We should coin a new term: "Straight to Netflix"

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Post by crinkly »

Screw streaming. I bought a smart TV a few years back. Services discontinued within 3 years. No external commercial streaming boxes work because of HDCP issues. Back to piracy until the TV gives up. Streamers and smart TV people, you had your chance and you blew it. I'm not paying through the nose any more.

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Post by draw_down »

sunrunner wrote: post #24

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" -- Gabe Newell [1] And I think he was largely correct, although the term _service_ seems like it now has to do a lot of heavy lifting as it now encompasses: - Availability by Company - Availability by Global Region - Stream Quality - Advert Policy (why does the lowest tier need to be ad supported? What am I paying for aside from being upsold?) - Qu…

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Post by margalabargala »

geoffpado wrote: post #14
neves wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a movie has a Netflix label in it, it is a sure signal of a bad movie with a boring script made based on data.

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

This includes movies "streamed or distributed" by Netflix. Like the parent mentioned, Netflix has streamed the Godfather.

If you click through the movies on that list, you will find that almost none of them were actually produced by Netflix.

Movies produced by Netflix are highly likely to be as described, with a small handful of exceptions.

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Post by whobre »

neves wrote: post #8

For me worse than the can't pay is the lack of options. In the VHS time I had more good movie options than in the current streaming services. I remember when I bing watched Kurozawa or Mario Monicelli's movies. Now it's very hard to find non American cinema. The tech is there, but the System fail us.

Yep. I swear I liked the old Netflix with DVDs better. I could rent pretty much any movie I wanted.

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Post by ModernMech »

Yeah, because you pay for the thing and you still can't watch it!

Last year they brought Andor to Hulu and every time I played it on my brand new LG TV, the video would be completely green while I could hear the audio underneath. It only happened to Andor because apparently they had some super special DRM, which ostensibly would restrict people who weren't authorized from viewing it, but had the effect of also preventing authorized people from viewing as well. So in the end, they can't even satisfy willing customers who have their wallets open. Of course they're going to turn to piracy.

Of course, the rights holders got my money and as far as they're concerned, their DRM move was great for the bottom line.

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

crooked-v wrote: post #9

To really sum it all up in one place, check out the absurdity of the official guide on where to watch the Pokemon cartoon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-... And that doesn't even actually list the movies, which are even more fragmented.

I have seen this before, but I never realized that was an official product! Thought that started as a joke by a disgruntled fan.

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Post by seatac76 »

crooked-v wrote: post #9

To really sum it all up in one place, check out the absurdity of the official guide on where to watch the Pokemon cartoon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-... And that doesn't even actually list the movies, which are even more fragmented.

Thanks for sharing OP, that is just ridiculous, makes cable looks like a sane option.

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Post by sunrunner »

geoffpado wrote: post #14
neves wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a movie has a Netflix label in it, it is a sure signal of a bad movie with a boring script made based on data.

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

I mean when your company has enough money to essentially bankroll the creation of a greater-than-average number of productions and simply pay the individuals involved in the production of these films whatever it takes to get them on board, isn't it sort of inevitable that you end up featuring in the list of awards a greater-than-average number of times?

Re: Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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Post by godzillabrennus »

crooked-v wrote: post #9

To really sum it all up in one place, check out the absurdity of the official guide on where to watch the Pokemon cartoon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-... And that doesn't even actually list the movies, which are even more fragmented.

Wow. It's like an advertisement for torrent sites... I had no idea it was that bad out there...
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