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My experience with Netflix's video quality has been pretty positive, so they seem to have been doing something right. I hope this predictive model will only im

My experience with Netflix's video quality has been pretty positive, so they seem to have been doing something right. I hope this predictive model will only improve things and won't deteriorate quality (consider they tuned for low false negatives quality shouldn't decline). This is a nice write-up of the business case for data science. It would have been nice to have a follow up with the technical details - but maybe that's deemed proprietary? My problem with Netflix is that I rarely find streaming films I would be interested in watching. It's so bad that I don't even bother looking there any longer, I'd rather just pay the $2.99 and rent a film I'd like to watch from Play or Amazon.

jedberg 11y ago
> My problem with Netflix is that I rarely find streaming films I would be interested in watching The Netflix TV catalog is very deep. What my wife does is pick a show that has 7+ seasons, and then starts watching it. If she likes it after the first few episodes, then generally it will occupy her for a few months.
binxbolling 11y ago
Just curious: what are you interested in that Netflix doesn't have? My queue always hovers around 350 unwatched titles, so this always baffles me a little bit.
- adenadel 11y ago
  They have a lot of great television, but the film selection always seems limited.
  - veb 11y ago
    I discovered this thing the other day, https://www.smartflix.io/ https://www.smartflix.io/ and lo behold, imagine my surprise when nearly everything I searched for... was in fact, streaming in my own country (New Zealand) and nowhere else. That was an eye opener. With that said, I quite like the Smartflix UI -- it's great for discovering things.
oakenshield 11y ago
I started enjoying Netflix more when I realized I shouldn't be looking for stuff I knew of from elsewhere, but rather explore titles, rate, and help their algorithm to suggest things to me. Has been working out well so far - I got into an area I didn't think I was interested so far (superhero series).

jedberg 11y ago

> My problem with Netflix is that I rarely find streaming films I would be interested in watching The Netflix TV catalog is very deep. What my wife does is pick a show that has 7+ seasons, and then starts watching it. If she likes it after the first few episodes, then generally it will occupy her for a few months.

binxbolling 11y ago

Just curious: what are you interested in that Netflix doesn't have? My queue always hovers around 350 unwatched titles, so this always baffles me a little bit.

adenadel 11y ago
They have a lot of great television, but the film selection always seems limited.
- veb 11y ago
  I discovered this thing the other day, https://www.smartflix.io/ https://www.smartflix.io/ and lo behold, imagine my surprise when nearly everything I searched for... was in fact, streaming in my own country (New Zealand) and nowhere else. That was an eye opener. With that said, I quite like the Smartflix UI -- it's great for discovering things.

oakenshield 11y ago

I started enjoying Netflix more when I realized I shouldn't be looking for stuff I knew of from elsewhere, but rather explore titles, rate, and help their algorithm to suggest things to me. Has been working out well so far - I got into an area I didn't think I was interested so far (superhero series).