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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by wpietri on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:36PM (#16362478)
Yes, exactly. Netflix is militantly opposed to feature bloat. That means picking the case that works well for most people.

And I'd add that what to subtitle is an artistic choice; directors carefully decide what languages to use and what they want to subtitle or leave untranslated. Plus Netflix have to deal with source material from hundreds of companies. Creating clever subtitle features quickly gets out into very deep waters.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by ekianjo on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:59PM (#16363886)
> That means picking the case that works well for most people.

On the web, you can serve customized content to every single client, because the tech enables it. It's just wrong to go for "one size fits all".

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