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I see comments similar to these on a lot of websites, and I don't understand the sentiment; I feel like I'm missing something major here. There are thousands o

by jesseb 8y ago

I see comments similar to these on a lot of websites, and I don't understand the sentiment; I feel like I'm missing something major here. There are thousands of television series and movies available to Americans on Netflix (less so in other countries, but the point still stands). Cable television doesn't offer a fraction of what's available on Netflix. I'm not aware of another streaming service that offers more titles. What is Netflix's library "small" relative to? Again, just curious because I've seen this mentioned plenty of times, and I personally find there's an overwhelming amount of content on there.

gnicholas 8y ago
With cable television, you get new content. Most of Netflix's catalog is old, and much of it is really quite bad. One of my pet peeves is that they don't indicate that a show is in a foreign language with English subtitles. Why is there no way to set a flag to just show English-language content?
- exolymph 8y ago
  This drives me crazy too, since a lot of the time I want a background show, and for that I need English audio.
SpecialistEMT 8y ago
Relative to the pirate bay ;)
1123581321 8y ago
I find there are people who are more concerned with collecting digital video than watching it. Those kinds of people do not like Netflix and make those kinds of comments because Netflix is not trying to cater to them. Others are fine with Netflix if it can offer them something to watch that meets their standards. It doesn’t matter if it was one of two or two hundred viable options. Netflix is able to do this for very high standards as well as middling tastes. This is also known as maximizing vs satisficing^. Both ways of treating media are valid but there’s some friction when the collectors try to make the watchers feel bad (or when the watchers make the collectors look a bit irrational, as I’m admittedly trying to do with this comment.) ^ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201506/satisficing-vs-maximizing https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/20150...

by jesseb 8y ago

gnicholas 8y ago

With cable television, you get new content. Most of Netflix's catalog is old, and much of it is really quite bad. One of my pet peeves is that they don't indicate that a show is in a foreign language with English subtitles. Why is there no way to set a flag to just show English-language content?

exolymph 8y ago
This drives me crazy too, since a lot of the time I want a background show, and for that I need English audio.

SpecialistEMT 8y ago

Relative to the pirate bay ;)

1123581321 8y ago

I find there are people who are more concerned with collecting digital video than watching it. Those kinds of people do not like Netflix and make those kinds of comments because Netflix is not trying to cater to them. Others are fine with Netflix if it can offer them something to watch that meets their standards. It doesn’t matter if it was one of two or two hundred viable options. Netflix is able to do this for very high standards as well as middling tastes. This is also known as maximizing vs satisficing^. Both ways of treating media are valid but there’s some friction when the collectors try to make the watchers feel bad (or when the watchers make the collectors look a bit irrational, as I’m admittedly trying to do with this comment.) ^ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201506/satisficing-vs-maximizing https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/20150...