Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir...
by anigbrowl on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:18PM
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Sounds like someone binge-watched themselves to satiation and is now projecting changes in their personal preferences onto the vendor that supplied their cravings.
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Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir...
by chc on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:47PM
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My wife and I watch a movie together a few nights a week. That's my primary use for Netflix. I don't think "binge-watch" is a very accurate way of putting it.
We used to have a really long list, and still we'd find stuff that wasn't on the list that we decided to watch instead because it all sounded good. Over time, we only got to watch a a fraction of the stuff we'd added to the list, with the rest simply disappearing.
This isn't just a "feeling," it's both an actual phenomenon and to some degree a deliberate choice on the part of Netflix, which wants to focus on its own stable of Netflix Original content that it won't have to renegotiate for every few years. See, for example: http://screencrush.com/yes-netflixs-film-catalog-has-gotten-... (and note that the "before" number in that article is from after Netflix lost the whole Starz catalog!)
Re:Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquir...
by CodeWriter23 on Monday March 27, 2017 @07:30PM
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There are many titles now missing from Netflix. My 7yo has a hobby of being a detective so I went to look up Columbo on NF and found they no longer have it. A lot of their catalog is missing, Farscape for example.