As an outsider looking in i can't help wonder if it lost something on the way. The impression i had of Netflix from back when was that it had all this weird an

As an outsider looking in i can't help wonder if it lost something on the way. The impression i had of Netflix from back when was that it had all this weird and wacky stuff reaching back to the straight-to-VHS rental era. This because at that time the big studios allowed Netflix to digitize a crapload of their back catalog for a song, because they didn't have the first clue if anyone would have any interest in it at all. But in recent years the studios have learned, and wants to cut out the middleman. Thus Netflix has moved on to producing their own stuff, while what used to be on Netflix may be on any number of studio services (if said services ever get off the ground, thanks to their paralyzing fear of pirates).