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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

ciupicri wrote: post #251
Jenk wrote: post #79

Netflix 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…

What nostalgia tv? A lot of 20 - 30 years old TV shows or movies aren't available on Netflix.

Likely talking about shows like Fuller House that just feed off nostalgia and offer nothing new or entertaining

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josephcsible wrote: post #395
Faark wrote: post #349

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Jup, gp was talking about unregulated markets. Those surprisingly often have winner take it all outcomes. I don't want to go back to company towns. BTW back to the current situation with streaming services, we nearly would have had the same with movie theaters. But United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. shut that down, thankfully. Wouldn't expect such a ruling these days, though :(

It isn't an unregulated market. Copyright is a regulation.

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Post by akiselev »

josephcsible wrote: post #395
Faark wrote: post #349

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Jup, gp was talking about unregulated markets. Those surprisingly often have winner take it all outcomes. I don't want to go back to company towns. BTW back to the current situation with streaming services, we nearly would have had the same with movie theaters. But United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. shut that down, thankfully. Wouldn't expect such a ruling these days, though :(

It isn't an unregulated market. Copyright is a regulation.

There are no unregulated markets. Property rights are a regulation.

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Post by passion__desire »

Miraste wrote: post #379
passion__desire wrote: post #362

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Why is Netflix not following short high quality 1-3 min videos model which is popular with young crowd? They already have Fast laughs tab which mimics that. Youtube / Creative studios could pitch 1-3 min video ideas which Netflix could greenlight and provide just bare minimum capital to produce. If the final film is good, Netflix could buy the film and release on their platform. Current Trends which are in favour of…

The pitch/studio model does not work for short content, and it never will. It's too slow-moving and corporate. The videos that succeed in this format are zeitgeist, flash-in-the-pan trends that are faster to produce and more dynamic than even the laziest reality show. The production value doesn't really matter--if anything it's a downside past a point.

If hackathons in software work and produce good product ideas, why can't the same be possible in creative fields? Cutaways in Family Guy are already short jokes which are shared without broader context on social media and they are popular. Netflix can always A/B test newly introduced content to determine engagement. Already built up cultural context (e.g. idea of multiverse, matrix and so on)need not be re-introduced from scratch, so no need to spend screen time on them.

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Post by sleepytimetea »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #408
hinkley wrote: post #245

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I really wish YouTube allowed 1.10 playback speed. It’s just fast enough to save you some real time on long video series, but slow enough that you can still absorb difficult subjects. Even slow talkers become fast talkers on 1.25 speed. 1.10 is perfect for most audiobooks.

Honest suggestion, try getting used to listening to things at faster speeds. I started listening to podcasts at increasingly faster speeds, going from 1.1 to 1.2 and slowly increasing it. It only took a few days to a week of listening to slightly-too-fast-for-comfort content before it started sounding normal and I could bump it up again. Now the slowest I listen to is at 1.5 (going up to 1.6 or even 1.8 for my "fille…

Do the ads also run at 2x ? ;-)

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Post by SoftTalker »

passion__desire wrote: post #362
whinenot wrote: post #348

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“I wonder if, say, a bonobo throwing shit at a whiteboard full of titles as a method of deciding what projects to make would have more or less success than all of these other ‘deciders’ who think they know what people want or don’t want.”[0] [0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflixs-...

Why is Netflix not following short high quality 1-3 min videos model which is popular with young crowd? They already have Fast laughs tab which mimics that. Youtube / Creative studios could pitch 1-3 min video ideas which Netflix could greenlight and provide just bare minimum capital to produce. If the final film is good, Netflix could buy the film and release on their platform. Current Trends which are in favour of…

Re. (1), not even slightly interested in spending time watching/reading a story written by ChatGPT.

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Post by seydor »

sosodev wrote: post #418
drexlspivey wrote: post #316

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Like when you change the gender/race of literature/historical characters to hit a diversity quota or when there is a whole carousel of movies with the genre “Black History Month” which is a US thing. That kind of stuff

Characters in modern takes on historical media have always been heavily modified. Why is editing their gender or skin tone not okay? Also, can't you just scroll past a carousel representing a genre you're not interested in? Are other carousels for things like musicals woke too?

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Post by justinclift »

jerf wrote: post #407
mikeryan wrote: post #313

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When Reed Hasting left and Ted Sarandos took over he had a bit of power shakeup and handed over the content reins to Bela Bajaria - who was brought in to head up international over Cindy Holland who was in charge of US content. Holland had brought in House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things, The Crown, Ozark and Narcos. Holland seemed to focus more on developing fewer shows of higher quality content w…

"Holland seemed to focus more on developing fewer shows of higher quality content while Bajaria was more focused on "get all the content, throw it all at the wall and see what sticks" (who saw "Squid Games" coming?)." I think the root problem is that no studio anywhere is large enough to put out enough high-quality content to keep the people engaged continuously. Not even Disney. All the studios were looking over at…

One of my friends is a writer, and his take on the problem is that the seasoned writers Netflix used to have (a few years ago) are now all getting fairly "old". Aka around their 50's.

So, they were let go, and a new generation of young, unseasoned writers has been doing the writing.

But unlike previous generations though (heh), many of them are not even slightly interested in learning from the previous (seasoned) writers, whom they view as inferior for some reason.

Thus, the extremely low quality (idiot level) of writing in recent years.

No idea how accurate that is, but it seems like a reasonable take at first glance.

Mind you, I don't really watch US origin tv/movies any more myself due to their crappiness. :)

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