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> Netflix cannot let you discover... They have to make you believe there is more that you have not found. That's an insightful observation and explains perfect
by computator 11y ago
> Netflix cannot let you discover... They have to make you believe there is more that you have not found.
That's an insightful observation and explains perfectly why Netflix does not provide a simple straight list of all titles that you can scroll through. I'll bet that the Netflix engineers have wanted to add such an obvious feature, but someone in marketing yelled, "Don't!"
If you ask the average non-techie user how many titles their Neflix subscription has, they'll be astonished to hear that it's only ~7750 in the US and even less in other countries (eg., ~4478 in Canada)[1]. Even though this information is easy to discover, it seems that most people don't bother to know.
[1] http://netflixcanadavsusa.blogspot.ca/ http://netflixcanadavsusa.blogspot.ca/
- bru_ 11y ago7,750 is a shockingly low number for a service like Netflix, but I guess it reflects the fact that most movies aren't really that good and you'd probably only be interested in watching a maximum of 10k titles over your lifetime, maybe 15,000 hours / 2 years of content
- throwaway7767 11y agoThat link is really interesting. I knew that the netflix collection was much smaller than people assume, but I never thought it'd be this small. I know people with personal media servers that could easily compete with this collection (not that I'm endorsing that, just throwing it in for scale).
- prawn 11y agoThe other thing I've noticed having recently trialled Netflix in Australia is that they seem to push TV series harder than movies. I guess if you watch a movie, you're done in a couple of hours. If you get hooked on a TV series, you might be watching episode after episode for a number of seasons.