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Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by RussianCow »

mikeash wrote: post #38
rayiner wrote: post #28

I don’t understand why so many people think this is a bad thing. Content distribution has become a commodity, thanks to AWS and the like. The codecs and whatnot are all standardized. And it turns out that consumers don’t really care about recommendation systems and similar accouterments. So the competition has shifted to the thing that people care about: content. When the market is competing over the thing people car…

It’s annoying as a user to juggle subscriptions. If I want to watch something, I have to figure out where it’s available, sign up if I don’t currently have a subscription, worry about forgetting services and having a bunch of monthly payments I’m not using. End result: I watch a lot of YouTube and pretty much gave up on the rest. Contrast with music, where I have a single subscription and get access to everything I w…

On the other hand, it's better than the alternative with cable providers where your only choices are the cheap, basic package with only 12 channels, or the really expensive package with >100 channels, of which you'll only ever watch a couple. Juggling multiple subscriptions is annoying, yes, but at least you can pick and choose what content you want to pay for.

Personally, Netflix has more than enough content for me to watch, so that's the only video subscription service I still pay for.

Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by zeta0134 »

mikeash wrote: post #38
rayiner wrote: post #28

I don’t understand why so many people think this is a bad thing. Content distribution has become a commodity, thanks to AWS and the like. The codecs and whatnot are all standardized. And it turns out that consumers don’t really care about recommendation systems and similar accouterments. So the competition has shifted to the thing that people care about: content. When the market is competing over the thing people car…

It’s annoying as a user to juggle subscriptions. If I want to watch something, I have to figure out where it’s available, sign up if I don’t currently have a subscription, worry about forgetting services and having a bunch of monthly payments I’m not using. End result: I watch a lot of YouTube and pretty much gave up on the rest. Contrast with music, where I have a single subscription and get access to everything I w…

I wish there was an easier way to just buy content, in a way that I knew was going to support the creators and not line the pockets of the distribution network. I used to wait for stuff to come out on DVD and pick it up then, but I don't know how much the original studio gets for that, or whether the original studio even exists by that point.

I certainly don't like the subscription model, but that's a personal choice. I just don't watch a lot of episodic television content; at some point I grew tired of the drawn out plotlines and endless filler, and during the TV era, I became especially dissatisfied with the constant advertising. Even with ad-free streaming models, I find that I'm just not interested. So when that one show comes out that I do very much enjoy, it's hard to justify signing up for a streaming service; it feels like I'm paying for access to a lot of other crap that I'll never consume.

Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by yasth »

paulcole wrote: post #31

> For example, about 20 million people tuned in to watch the first episode of the latest season of hit show Game of Thrones. > It was one of the most-watched non-sporting events in TV history. This is not even close to true. Nearly 17 million people watched the Murder She Wrote finale in 1996. In the 1970s, each year, the highest rated episodes of All In The Family were consistently over 20 million. Seinfeld had 35 m…

Because the numbers are kind of crap lately. People don't realize just how the average episode of Friends beat 20 million for every one of 10 seasons [1]. The audience is fragmented like never before.

A small correction though, All in the Family was on average over 20 million households, and before every house had seven tvs that was significantly more viewers.

http://newmusicandmore.tripod.com/friendsratings.html

Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by paulcole »

yasth wrote: post #45
paulcole wrote: post #31

> For example, about 20 million people tuned in to watch the first episode of the latest season of hit show Game of Thrones. > It was one of the most-watched non-sporting events in TV history. This is not even close to true. Nearly 17 million people watched the Murder She Wrote finale in 1996. In the 1970s, each year, the highest rated episodes of All In The Family were consistently over 20 million. Seinfeld had 35 m…

Because the numbers are kind of crap lately. People don't realize just how the average episode of Friends beat 20 million for every one of 10 seasons [1]. The audience is fragmented like never before. A small correction though, All in the Family was on average over 20 million households , and before every house had seven tvs that was significantly more viewers. http://newmusicandmore.tripod.com/friendsratings.html

Households over 20 million also equals viewers over 20 million.

Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by zeta0134 »

Giorgi wrote: post #30

So forbes now has a freaking video in the corner that I can't close? WTF?

I dislike side rails, so I blocked it, and this appears to block the video that follows you around the article too. Here's the uBlock filter I use, which would probably work on other ad blockers:

    ! 5/26/2019 https://www.forbes.com
    www.forbes.com##.right-rail
I especially love how the video waits for you to start scrolling. I've noticed that as a vulnerability in autoplaying media, since the scroll counts as a user action and the browser will allow the site to "play" the media at that point. Some sites use it to "auto"-play videos with sound, working around the user's preferences. Don't any of these sites realize how hostile this behavior is?

Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by mrep »

> Disney’s ownership of iconic franchises like Star Wars gives it something no money can buy.

Lol, considering Disney themselves not only bought the iconic franchise star wars, but they also bought marvel and even Pixar. If Disney is good at anything, it's identifying under-capitalized brands, buying them and then milking them for all they worth.

Re: Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

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Post by schmookeeg »

Giorgi wrote: post #30

So forbes now has a freaking video in the corner that I can't close? WTF?

It's getting worse, everywhere. Autoplay is a scourge I can't seem to get out of my life.

For Chrome at least, I find this handy

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/html-content-block...

I run the media blocker nearly 100% of the time and only turn it off on the rare occasion when I want to watch a video.

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