My Netflix account goes way back to the mid 2000s. I just cancelled it over this price increase. I'm definitely not getting $22 (Premium + tax) of value from Netflix every month. They just don't make all that much good content. My go-to is still HBO (and not 'HBO Max'), whose production quality I would have preferred Netflix to emulate.
Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
411–420 of 507 posts
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube is pretty magical. It has everything, even in the "kid zone". Which also means I can't leave them unsupervised for 30 minutes and come back. If I do, my kids will've gone from educational video about the rain forest to sponsored video to toy videos to slime to fart jokes to music videos of bikini-clad bimbos to steamy romance videos to ... Anyway it's just too much work to curate youtube for a child, IMO. For…
I see so many of these complaints about YT having lots of good family-friendly content but at the same time being terrible at curation even in the kids mode. Seems like the problem can be solved with a crowdsourced list of family-friendly videos (on GitHub?) managed by trusted collaborators and then a simple page that embeds only these videos? Over time I assume it should work given enough people contributing. It's n…
Don’t even try. You would basically have to rewrite the entire YouTube client to get rid of all the dark patterns.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
They realized it three or four years ago when big players started pulling content. Why do you think they've been investing so heavily in their own content?
'"The goal," says Sarandos, "is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." ' That was Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix in 2013, so they 'realized' at least a decade ago. They've really pivoted amazingly from dvds to streaming other folks content to creating their own in the last 20ish years.
Yeah, a lot of people seem to be defaulting to "Netflix didn't see this obvious thing" rather than "competing with Disney is ridiculously hard even if you have the smartest executives on the planet".
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wish there was a way to block everything and whitelist allowed channels. There are some really quality ones but there are also a bunch of really creepy content, even in the kids app.
Does the kids app show ads? Aside from the creepy content (which required in-person parental filtering) the advertising was the thing that drove us away from YouTube. It's fine on a laptop or desktop where you can run an ad blocker. It's not fine when you're trying to let kiddo watch YouTube on an actual TV screen.
Yes, on certain channels. Some channels are ad-free, but this can change over time. A channel that’s ad-free on the YT Kids app today doesn’t have to be ad-free tomorrow.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#415I really hope Netflix proves everyone wrong. HBO and Disney+ may have a huge advantage but neither seems interested in the tech side. Disney+ may be OK now (it's been a while since I checked) but HBO Max seems to be extremely inconsistent when it comes to streaming quality. Even new, popular shows like Euphoria on HBO Max are only 1080p with a bitrate so low that the frequent, dimly lit scenes are a blocky mess. At t…
> Disney+ may have a huge advantage but neither seems interested in the tech side.
Anecdotally, having interviewed for Disney Streaming, they seemed extremely interested in the tech side.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#416Here in Europe netflix content/catalog is degrading so rapidly that I have no reason anymore - since at least an year and half - to keep a subscription up, especially for what it costs now. Last time I resubscribed to look at it was in December and I just ended up watching just squid game and rewatching narcos. Nothing else interesting anymore in there, and their own IPs are mostly bad I am honestly sad for how the m…
It's a larger problem than that, isn't it? We collectively moved from piracy to Netflix and other streaming platforms because the appeal was gone. But pulling the rug from underneath your users and removing movies and TV series they have built a relationship to just serves to piss off the very people you expect to pay for your service -- I understand it's a "complicated" IP problem (really, it's just too many greedy…
> But pulling the rug from underneath your users and removing movies and TV series they have built a relationship to just serves to piss off the very people you expect to pay for your service -- I understand it's a "complicated" IP problem (really, it's just too many greedy parties), but this will end in one result: more piracy.
You're saying that like Netflix has any choice in the matter. Yes, it's in part a problem of greed in the abstract sense, but it's not like Netflix has any incentive to pull shows off its catalog, or any way to stand up to the likes of Disney.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. We’ve cancelled everything except for Disney+. Well, we also have Amazon prime, but that is mainly for the shipping. We rarely watch anything on Amazon.
I cancelled Disney+ when they wanted to charge extra for a movie, on top of the subscription. I'll just buy the DVD cheaper than what they asked for on top of the sub. Admittedly, I'm not automatically entitled to all the things they release but still feels wrong and wanted to vote with my wallet. The Mandalorian was an amazing series though!
That is only temporary. Within a few weeks everything becomes free. If you can’t wait a few weeks, there is always the buccaneer bay.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#418I really hope Netflix proves everyone wrong. HBO and Disney+ may have a huge advantage but neither seems interested in the tech side. Disney+ may be OK now (it's been a while since I checked) but HBO Max seems to be extremely inconsistent when it comes to streaming quality. Even new, popular shows like Euphoria on HBO Max are only 1080p with a bitrate so low that the frequent, dimly lit scenes are a blocky mess. At t…
> Disney+ may have a huge advantage but neither seems interested in the tech side. Anecdotally, having interviewed for Disney Streaming, they seemed extremely interested in the tech side.
The entire streaming division (DSS) was born out of BAMTech, the pioneer of streaming media. There is no place other than DSS that has that kind of tech pedigree in regards to streaming.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#419I said this again recently, but it's worth repeating: Netflix is on the very fast downward slope. Their catalog is wilting, the space is heating up with well-established competitors moving in and serving the precise content that Netflix originally built their brand on, and their efforts to fund a new catalog with new IP (and taking ownership of old IP) is destroying the business model that made them so appealing in t…
I think they are stumbling because they are trying to grow their catalog too fast. They have achieved a lot of this by taking on debt, not an unresonable amount, but I think they have too much money to burn and that means they aren’t always making smart or selective bets on content.
In the beginning of their foray into original content it felt like everything was good or at least interesting even if it wasn’t for me. Now it feels like they have a new original every week, but less that I find compelling or even watchable. A lot of it is lowest common denometer trash content. They risk being associated with that. I once associated them with high quality content even if it was low budget. Now I associate them with shows that feel like were concepted and written by a user acquisition algorithm.
At some point they decided Netflix is for every human on earth and to be for everyone you have to have content that can be digested by everyone, but to do that you make a pretty bland product without much taste.
Re: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable
#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see so many of these complaints about YT having lots of good family-friendly content but at the same time being terrible at curation even in the kids mode. Seems like the problem can be solved with a crowdsourced list of family-friendly videos (on GitHub?) managed by trusted collaborators and then a simple page that embeds only these videos? Over time I assume it should work given enough people contributing. It's n…
Don’t even try. You would basically have to rewrite the entire YouTube client to get rid of all the dark patterns.
It's already done though: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious