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"Bread and butter" - there's no differential income stream from anything on Netflix. It's just two bits' worth - streaming yes/no, DVD yes/no. I'd be hard pres

"Bread and butter" - there's no differential income stream from anything on Netflix. It's just two bits' worth - streaming yes/no, DVD yes/no. I'd be hard pressed to find the link to support this, but my understanding is that DVD/BluRay sales are the mechanism by which the "last mile" of movie finance is accomplished. My wife and I recently made the decision to stop Netflix. We'd kept a tally and Amazon Video was used more than 10:1 than Netflix. We do have Amazon Prime ( which I suspect Amazon cannot keep up forever ). But for movie movies, we still DVR them from cable. The Netflix experience is like giving up on the new releases portion of Blockbuster and trolling through the back of the store for older titles, leaving disappointed. From here, it smells like artificial scarcity. But I'm not buying too many more titles on physical media - I don't want to store them and if I ever get a buyer figured out, I'll sell a lot of what we already have. Most of what we'd buy are the TCM offerings of classic movies.

dimino 10y ago
It's $10/month, peanuts considering what you're getting. Your careful analysis of a purchase that's doable using the literal change falling out of your pocket is not representative of the folks who purchase Netflix (not representative of any purchasing group, really). They're not catering to the folks like yourself.
- wtetzner 10y ago
  > It's $10/month, peanuts considering what you're getting. It's not peanuts if you don't think you're getting much value (e.g. it doesn't have the stuff you wanna watch).
  - dimino 10y ago
    What is the point in talking about that, though? Giving your anecdote that you don't want to watch anything on Netflix falsely implies your anecdote is statistically significant, when in reality it isn't.
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  > They're not catering to the folks like yourself. Obviously :) We didn't miss the $10/M for a couple of years before we summoned the energy to unsubscribe.

dimino 10y ago

It's $10/month, peanuts considering what you're getting. Your careful analysis of a purchase that's doable using the literal change falling out of your pocket is not representative of the folks who purchase Netflix (not representative of any purchasing group, really). They're not catering to the folks like yourself.

wtetzner 10y ago
> It's $10/month, peanuts considering what you're getting. It's not peanuts if you don't think you're getting much value (e.g. it doesn't have the stuff you wanna watch).
- dimino 10y ago
  What is the point in talking about that, though? Giving your anecdote that you don't want to watch anything on Netflix falsely implies your anecdote is statistically significant, when in reality it isn't.
ArkyBeagle 10y ago
> They're not catering to the folks like yourself. Obviously :) We didn't miss the $10/M for a couple of years before we summoned the energy to unsubscribe.