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Netflix is great when you have kids. Uninterrupted cartoons with no commercials where you can pick suitable shows for any age group, properly translated, always

by gcp 10y ago

Netflix is great when you have kids. Uninterrupted cartoons with no commercials where you can pick suitable shows for any age group, properly translated, always available. Their original series there don't seem to score too highly yet (kids hate all of them aside from Lego Friends), but there's enough on offer. I did drop down to the cheapest, lowest end subscription though. I stream via a Wii (kids don't mind the quality) and because of the DRM restrictions in browsers, I also only get to see the low quality streams anyway. I'm hoping the stronger position of their Netflix Originals can eventually tone down the DRM crazy-ness.

dogma1138 10y ago
Considering Netflix is tying DRM to CPU and only Kabby Lake PC's and later will get Netflix 4K support outside of approved devices it's doubtful. Also bare in mind that almost none of the so called "Originals" are actually produced by Netflix. What Netflix calls originals is pretty much "you can't see it almost anywhere but on netflix", and this isn't even universal, this usually means that Netflix has secured the primary broadcasting rights in a one or more regions. This is why in the UK shows like Better Call Saul, Sole Survivor, The Expanse and many others are marked as Original even tho they are broadcasted on TV in the US and in many other regions.
- throwanem 10y ago
  Unrelated to Netflix, but if you've watched The Expanse and liked it, I can really recommend the original novel series; the show covers roughly the first half of the first book, Leviathan Wakes, and the sixth book arrived late last year, with at least one more still to come. They're an absolutely brilliant combination of space opera and hard sf, and while I gather one of the authors counts George R. R. Martin as a mentor, they are unlike him in being able to keep up a timely release schedule. Along with Stross's "Library Files" series, they're easily some of the best new sf I've seen in the last couple of decades, and I can't recommend them strongly enough to fans of the genre and especially of the show.
  - samlittlewood 10y ago
    did you mean Leviathan Wakes?
    - throwanem 10y ago
      I did! I mixed it up with the title of the latest, Babylon's Ashes. What I get for commenting before sufficient coffee to complete the boot process; fixed, and thanks for the catch!

by gcp 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago

Considering Netflix is tying DRM to CPU and only Kabby Lake PC's and later will get Netflix 4K support outside of approved devices it's doubtful. Also bare in mind that almost none of the so called "Originals" are actually produced by Netflix. What Netflix calls originals is pretty much "you can't see it almost anywhere but on netflix", and this isn't even universal, this usually means that Netflix has secured the primary broadcasting rights in a one or more regions. This is why in the UK shows like Better Call Saul, Sole Survivor, The Expanse and many others are marked as Original even tho they are broadcasted on TV in the US and in many other regions.

throwanem 10y ago
Unrelated to Netflix, but if you've watched The Expanse and liked it, I can really recommend the original novel series; the show covers roughly the first half of the first book, Leviathan Wakes, and the sixth book arrived late last year, with at least one more still to come. They're an absolutely brilliant combination of space opera and hard sf, and while I gather one of the authors counts George R. R. Martin as a mentor, they are unlike him in being able to keep up a timely release schedule. Along with Stross's "Library Files" series, they're easily some of the best new sf I've seen in the last couple of decades, and I can't recommend them strongly enough to fans of the genre and especially of the show.
- samlittlewood 10y ago
  did you mean Leviathan Wakes?
  - throwanem 10y ago
    I did! I mixed it up with the title of the latest, Babylon's Ashes. What I get for commenting before sufficient coffee to complete the boot process; fixed, and thanks for the catch!