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Post by umeshunni »

avar wrote: post #254
dasil003 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having spent the last 8 years of my life building a streaming film company that has from day one streamed globally and dealt with this patchwork of rights issue, I can tell you one reason: Other than China and India, no other market is as big or insular as the US. In Europe people travel across borders and speak multiple languages all the time, and yet it's like pulling teeth to put together multiple regional subtitl…

> Other than China and India, no other market > is as big or insular as the US. Isn't Japan's market generally recognized to be even more insular than the U.S.?

But it is a much smaller market

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Post by kagamine »

PeterStuer wrote: post #430

I apologize if this is something that I overlooked in the announcement, but does this mean Netflix will now have the same catalog available everywhere? In the press release they only seem to refer to Netflix original series. Last time I looked the Netflix content that was available to subscribers here (Belgium) was extremely poor and not comparable at all to what US Netflix subscribers are used to.

Same experience here in Norway. Subscribed, unsubscribed after a month as the content compared to the US/UK catalog was severely lacking. On reddit around that time there were a few 'top 10' lists, things like '10 documentaries on netflix you must see', that sort of thing, there were only ever about 3 of 10 available here. The service is by no means cheaper here either.

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Post by thirdsun »

lazaroclapp wrote: post #201
petke wrote: post #172

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Interesting to compare, the total number of movies/shows/episodes on netflix for a few countries: USA: 7004 UK: 3589 Finland: 3380 (So high because they don't dub?) Sweden: 2542 (But Sweden does not dub either ...) Germany: 2415 (But Germany does) France: 2254 Spain: 1482 Italy: 1393 Portugal: 924 (Europe really seems to get netflix light)

> Finland: 3380 (So high because they don't dub?) Why would you dub? I mean, why would you either have to dub everything or not include it? Just have at set up a screen that asks which languages you speak, whether you prefer dubs or subs and whether you will accept subs for everything that doesn't have a dub if you previously selected dub. Why is language so tied to location? Specially in Europe! (and I can imagine t…

Well, to Netflix' credit they offer everything with original audio track and never forced the local (german) audio track on me. A setting that Amazon still can't consistently provide for their paid video selection, which rules out half of their content for me.

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Post by herbst »

runn1ng wrote: post #337

It doesn't have a lot of contents in here (Czech Republic). But! It has complete history of Power Rangers franchise. I think every Power Rangers episode in history is there. So there is that.

Same here in Switzerland. For a moment it hyped and everybody had it, now i dont know a single person where i know he still uses it as the content barely did expand, and really is not much. Next to that we have hundreds of really good gray streaming sites (its legal to pirate here in switzerland) in the german room, which each has more movies and series available.

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Post by kbenson »

neolefty wrote: post #396
lsaferite wrote: post #372

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I didn't know I needed a Netflix live news channel until you mentioned it. Now I can't stop hoping they do that.

Could that fit with Netflix's current culture? They're big on content that's curated, high-quality, high-definition (with graceful degredation). Live news' editorial agility and responsiveness would require a department with a substantially different attitude and expertise. They're capable of expanding and pivoting though, more than most companies, so if they decide it's a priority, it's possible. It seems like a pre…

Like their current original content, they would just sub it out to another organization, which would provide them the content. I could see them going to an existing organization that may not be entirely linked to a network (at least not in as competitive a way) and using their new. The BBC for example, or NPR if they had a video cast equivalent to their audio one.

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Post by kagamine »

onion2k wrote: post #423
thegenius2000 wrote: post #409

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I agree with what a lot of people have mentioned, though not focused on: Netflix needs to add sports if they want to really dominate at a global level. As an example, consider Africa (I'm Kenyan): the Barclays Premiere League is watched in virtually every country, but provided by one company, known as MultiChoice. Because almost everyone wants to watch football, and there is only one option, if they can afford it, th…

Are a large number of people actually interested in sports, or is it a large number of people within your filtered and biased social group that are interested? If I look at what my friends watch I'd get the impression no one watches sports or soaps and everyone would like the TV schedules to be filled with documentaries and satire. That doesn't make it true - it's just that's the sort of people I socialise with. I'm…

Is football (the real football, not handegg) popular in Europe and Africa? Is that your question? Football is most certainly popular.

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Post by mrweasel »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #406
sailfast wrote: post #43

What is missing in a lot of these comments is acknowledging that Netflix may become the largest global "television" network in the world as adoption increases. They have original content lined up and control those rights, and they will continue to expand their reach with that content. Whether they add the "same" streaming content as they have purchased from other providers in the US is not the point here - the big im…

While I'm a Netflix fan and subscriber I find them terrifying. They're clearly the monopoly power in streaming TV and whatever you call the competition that comes from Hulu or traditional cable companies is a joke in comparison. I predict in the future we'll have to break up the Netflix monopoly and require that they sublicense out the content they have license to stream to smaller suppliers much like the way it work…

> They're clearly the monopoly power in streaming TV and whatever you call the competition that comes from Hulu or traditional cable companies is a joke in comparison

In some countries Netflix is the only choice. Your right to be at least a little terrified. A few years ago Google was in the same position. Everyone loved them. Google could do no wrong. Now we're in a situation where search has been monopolized by an advertising company.

Everyone is upset about the cable company monopolies, while at the same time happily handing Netflix a new monopoly.

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Post by seunosewa »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #406
sailfast wrote: post #43

What is missing in a lot of these comments is acknowledging that Netflix may become the largest global "television" network in the world as adoption increases. They have original content lined up and control those rights, and they will continue to expand their reach with that content. Whether they add the "same" streaming content as they have purchased from other providers in the US is not the point here - the big im…

While I'm a Netflix fan and subscriber I find them terrifying. They're clearly the monopoly power in streaming TV and whatever you call the competition that comes from Hulu or traditional cable companies is a joke in comparison. I predict in the future we'll have to break up the Netflix monopoly and require that they sublicense out the content they have license to stream to smaller suppliers much like the way it work…

Netflix wont become a lucrative monopoly because they own/control neither the content that they distribute (except for the few shows they produce) nor the distribution channel (the Internet). Moreso they have no pricing power; they faced a huge backlash the first time they tried to increase their subscription fees and only just managed to raise it by $1. Unless they can convince their customers to pay much more so they can sponsor and buy much more content, Netflix will be at best the largest among a group of streaming services you have to subscribe to to get all the content you want.

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Post by kagamine »

icebraining wrote: post #348
megablast wrote: post #300

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Southern European countries like it dubbed, all there shows are dubbed.

Not here in Portugal (thankfully). Only shows for children are dubbed here.

One of many reasons to like Portugal, go on holiday, speak no Portuguese, can still go to the cinema (and have a proud usher tell you that no, they don't dub the films like the Spanish do, because Portuguese people can read).

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Post by Consultant32452 »

seunosewa wrote: post #438
Consultant32452 wrote: post #406

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I'm a Netflix fan and subscriber I find them terrifying. They're clearly the monopoly power in streaming TV and whatever you call the competition that comes from Hulu or traditional cable companies is a joke in comparison. I predict in the future we'll have to break up the Netflix monopoly and require that they sublicense out the content they have license to stream to smaller suppliers much like the way it work…

Netflix wont become a lucrative monopoly because they own/control neither the content that they distribute (except for the few shows they produce) nor the distribution channel (the Internet). Moreso they have no pricing power; they faced a huge backlash the first time they tried to increase their subscription fees and only just managed to raise it by $1. Unless they can convince their customers to pay much more so th…

I think that works until the cable companies essentially become defunct. Once that happens Netflix, being the 500lb gorilla in the room, will be the highest bidder for your content even if Netflix is the lowest bidder per view because Netflix will have all the eyes. Showtime is now available as an add-on to Hulu. It will be interesting to see how this model works out for them as opposed to the HBO self-streaming model. I suspect the end game will kill off both of those models because, again, I speculate even if the per-view revenue via Netflix are lower your over-all revenue would be higher.
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