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So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
by werdnapk 9y ago
So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
- ascagnel_ 9y agoMost of the FX Networks-owned content has been gone from Netflix for a while; it's been on Hulu or Prime Video.
- dorfsmay 9y agoSadly Hulu is only available in the U.S., although I find that I can rent/buy from google a lot of content that isn't available on Netflix.
- levesque 9y agoAt one point you start wondering why you pay for Netflix.
- banderman 9y agoThey have a lot of great original content. In particular they're the leader in stand up comedy.
- astura 9y agoThis is exactly why Netflix is banking on original content going forward.
- lotsofpulp 9y agoI just feel like supporting the company that gave us an alternative to media riddled with commercial breaks and having to deal with TV providers.
- heartbreak 9y agoQuite a bit of FX content (including IASIP) left Netflix this month due to expiring contracts. Convenient timing for the Disney deal.
- wallace_f 9y agoHow is it that this is so much less anti-competitive than bundling an OS with a web browser?
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoBecause Microsoft, for all their bad acting, didn't have a hand up the backside of enough senators to use as sockpuppets. Disney does. They write our IP laws.
- regulation_d 9y agoThe year is 2928. Machines have taken over. Disney lobby-bots are still arguing, "1000 years should definitely still be considered a 'limited time' under the Constitution."
- YCode 9y agoReally makes that seem like a simpler time when the concern of the day was that your OS came with an integrated browser.
- simias 9y agoYou make it sound like having a single proprietary browser as the standard for browsing the web is a minor concern. Can you imagine if nowadays anybody who's not using IE/Edge was a 2nd class citizen on the web, not able to access most content? Remember the days of flash? For one thing it would've hurt massively the development of non-MS smartphones. Nowadays Chrome seems to be the new IE but at least they're a bit more open overall. I have absolutely no doubt that MS would've turn the web into their proprietary playground if given the chance.
- kuschku 9y ago> Nowadays Chrome seems to be the new IE but at least they're a bit more open overall. eeeeeh "Google Chrome is required to run the new Google Earth. Please try this link in Chrome. Learn more." "Launching the new Allo Web, only available in Chrome." "Launching Google Inbox Beta, only available in Chrome." Granted, Allo and Inbox and the new YouTube design are now available in Firefox, but with artificial performance limitations. Also, even versions of Firefox that support U2F are unable to log into Google with it, because Google sniffs the User Agent. Additionally, half of Google’s mobile websites are unusable, or haven’t been updated since before the 2013 redesign, on Firefox mobile. "Best Viewed in Internet Explorer" is back in full swing.
- reubeniv 9y agoOh it's crazy how much stuff Disney can pull off Netflix, I don't know if they will, because it's in their interest to have some stuff accessible over more than one place, but they own ABC (Lost, Castle, Firefly, etc), ESPN, Marvel, LucasArts, now Fox and their assets, not to mention they distribute on behalf of many publishers (Dreamworks for example), they would probably clear more than half of Netflix's content if they pulled everything.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoThey will.
- trisimix 9y agoIsnt lucasarts the game studio
- cableshaft 9y agoAlmost seems like Netflix knew what they were doing when they started funding a bunch of original content. I remember when people thought they were being silly.
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- chrisan 9y agoSeems like a next step would be just buying Netflix with threats of pulling? Maybe Netflix can survive on its own OC, which is growing each time I load it up.