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Marvel Movies Will No Longer Be Released on Netflix Starting with Captain Marvel

28 points by joeyespo 8y ago

MekaiGS 8y ago
Autoplay video that takes up almost my whole screen with full sound blasting, the video itself contains the cliff note of an article that has less than 500 words. This is beyond awful.
- imron 8y ago
  There should be an option or plugin for whatever browser you use to disable auto-play videos.
  - infectoid 8y ago
    There is a config option for most broswers. For firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702 Not sure for chrome.
    - imron 8y ago
      > There is a config option for most broswers Yes, this is what I meant (and I have it switched on) although reading my comment back I can see how it could be interpreted as me wishing for this capability.
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  - sergers 8y ago
    There is, atleast built into chrome (not sure about other browsers). On Android: Settings > site settings > media > autoplay > toggle blocked. Desktop browser option too. https://9to5google.com/2018/02/15/how-to-disable-autoplay-videos-chrome/ https://9to5google.com/2018/02/15/how-to-disable-autoplay-vi...
jmspring 8y ago
Netflix used to have decent content. Now, it's mostly Netflix originals and an occasional surprise and lots of not great content. Most of the services for their "subscriber level" are the same -- hulu and prime being others. Now instead of "Prime" you need "Prime + StarZ" or some other BS. Basically, the online services have devolved back to the 80s HBO/Cinemax/etc era where everything with real content is extra.
- nkozyra 8y ago
  I think that's fine at a certain price point (it's the a la cart system we clamored for) but at $9-$20 a service it ends up costing more than cable because there's no comprehensive aggregator platforms anymore. The Netflix model became "get or create everything we can," which means a lot of cruft. Prime gets scraps. Hulu and Sling are just putting lipstick on a pig. It's a mess. What consumers want is to select and pay for what they want. That was the major complaint against cable and it's no different with streaming services today.
  - rosege 8y ago
    I'snt Hulu owned by Disney and Fox? Not in the US and don't use it but I'd imagine they could really make it pretty amazing with back catalogue etc if they wanted to.
    - nkozyra 8y ago
      It's owned in part by a lot of media companies, primarily as counter-half-measure against YouTube and later Netflix and Amazon. It's not an end game. It's the proverbial finger in the dike, a way to buy time until figuring out the next great way to screw consumers.
      - dayofthedaleks 8y ago
        Fyi... for that expression you'd want to use 'dike,' not its homophone.
fourmii 8y ago
This shouldn't be surprising since we all know that Disney will be bringing out their own streaming service in 2019...
- sundvor 8y ago
  Torrents are dead, they said. Well at least it disappeared from the mainstream when it got easy and relatively cheap to legally access movies and TV shows. With the increasing fragmentation of commercial content networks, I can easily see a resurrection of public interest in non-legit ways of consuming content.
  - fourmii 8y ago
    It's funny, in a way, this is what we all wanted. We eventually started to reject cable TV and cut cords in droves because we decided we didn't want to pay for unwanted bundled content.
  - infectoid 8y ago
    Pretty much how I see it. I'm happy to pay if you make it easy for me to get what I want. I reckon that all the streaming services should agree on a standard for distribution via their API's so that third parties can write better front ends that can connect to and search all of the services you are subscribed to. So I would: - Subscribe to Netflix - Subscribe to Disney - Install my streaming frontend of choice - Connect both services either using an API key or PIN or SSO, etc Now I can give them my money every month and have one interface to access all the services. Sure, they may want to offer different features to differentiate their brand but that can be accounted for to some degree in the agreed standard. Or something. I dunno what's going to fix this miss.
    - iamdave 8y ago
      So an online cable company? I was wondering if I'd see the day where the "buy from one get access to all" content consumption model came back, but applied to streaming services.
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rm_-rf_slash 8y ago
Looks like every content producer wants their own streaming service these days, and for good reason too. Good video content is expensive to produce. Why give Netflix all that extra margin? My only concern is whether consumers will opt for a bunch of different streaming subscriptions instead of the old duo, Netflix and Hulu, with a side of HBO? At some point it’s just going to be too much to pay for, and there’s only so much television one can watch in a month. A subscription service for a solid niche will do fine - Disney is all but assured to have a permanent subscription from their dedicated fans and the parents of young children, and Marvel pretty much owns the superhero entertainment space - but what is Netflix’s niche? A browse through their original content is a spray-and-pray of categories that seeks to grab ahold of everyone. Some of it is pretty good, a fair amount is mediocre, and the vast majority I will never watch or probably even know exists. At what point is a subscriber going to shrug their shoulders and cancel all-for-all Netflix in favor of a subscription to a smaller selection of the stuff they love the most?
senectus1 8y ago
way to go guys... I was just beginning to think that piracy was almost irrelevant now...
ProfessorLayton 8y ago
I really do believe that Netflix has some hard times ahead. Disney has been slowly but surely getting all of its ducks in a row, and with the Fox buyout, it seems like it's set to setup a very compelling streaming service — to the detriment of competitors. Disney will own 39% of the theatrical marketshare once the fox acquisition closes [1]. They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so. The problem for Netflix is that they'll effectively be middlemen unless they start competing like their competitors do: A vertically integrated media business where they own and distribute their own content. Yes, they've been pouring billions into their library, but it looks like it could be too little too late, much of it is too low quality, imho. [1] https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/disney-fox-deal-antitrust-enforcement-1202637338/ https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/disney-fox-deal-antit...
- lylecubed 8y ago
  > They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so. They have to make that streaming service first. Disney has a long history of acquiring internet and game companies only to shut them down a year or two later when they prove unsuccessful. Their own endeavors in the web and game space have been wildly unsuccessful. They fundamentally do not understand the internet and I see no indication that has changed.
explainplease 8y ago
Netflix won't see another cent of my money until they stop promoting teen suicide and pay restitution to the families of the girls who killed themselves after binge-watching 13 Reasons Why.
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friedButter 8y ago
I suspect they will still be available on TPB and friends

28 points by joeyespo 8y ago

Autoplay video that takes up almost my whole screen with full sound blasting, the video itself contains the cliff note of an article that has less than 500 words. This is beyond awful.

imron 8y ago
There should be an option or plugin for whatever browser you use to disable auto-play videos.
- infectoid 8y ago
  There is a config option for most broswers. For firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702 Not sure for chrome.
  - imron 8y ago
    > There is a config option for most broswers Yes, this is what I meant (and I have it switched on) although reading my comment back I can see how it could be interpreted as me wishing for this capability.
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- sergers 8y ago
  There is, atleast built into chrome (not sure about other browsers). On Android: Settings > site settings > media > autoplay > toggle blocked. Desktop browser option too. https://9to5google.com/2018/02/15/how-to-disable-autoplay-videos-chrome/ https://9to5google.com/2018/02/15/how-to-disable-autoplay-vi...

jmspring 8y ago

Netflix used to have decent content. Now, it's mostly Netflix originals and an occasional surprise and lots of not great content. Most of the services for their "subscriber level" are the same -- hulu and prime being others. Now instead of "Prime" you need "Prime + StarZ" or some other BS. Basically, the online services have devolved back to the 80s HBO/Cinemax/etc era where everything with real content is extra.

nkozyra 8y ago
I think that's fine at a certain price point (it's the a la cart system we clamored for) but at $9-$20 a service it ends up costing more than cable because there's no comprehensive aggregator platforms anymore. The Netflix model became "get or create everything we can," which means a lot of cruft. Prime gets scraps. Hulu and Sling are just putting lipstick on a pig. It's a mess. What consumers want is to select and pay for what they want. That was the major complaint against cable and it's no different with streaming services today.
- rosege 8y ago
  I'snt Hulu owned by Disney and Fox? Not in the US and don't use it but I'd imagine they could really make it pretty amazing with back catalogue etc if they wanted to.
  - nkozyra 8y ago
    It's owned in part by a lot of media companies, primarily as counter-half-measure against YouTube and later Netflix and Amazon. It's not an end game. It's the proverbial finger in the dike, a way to buy time until figuring out the next great way to screw consumers.
    - dayofthedaleks 8y ago
      Fyi... for that expression you'd want to use 'dike,' not its homophone.

fourmii 8y ago

This shouldn't be surprising since we all know that Disney will be bringing out their own streaming service in 2019...

sundvor 8y ago
Torrents are dead, they said. Well at least it disappeared from the mainstream when it got easy and relatively cheap to legally access movies and TV shows. With the increasing fragmentation of commercial content networks, I can easily see a resurrection of public interest in non-legit ways of consuming content.
- fourmii 8y ago
  It's funny, in a way, this is what we all wanted. We eventually started to reject cable TV and cut cords in droves because we decided we didn't want to pay for unwanted bundled content.
- infectoid 8y ago
  Pretty much how I see it. I'm happy to pay if you make it easy for me to get what I want. I reckon that all the streaming services should agree on a standard for distribution via their API's so that third parties can write better front ends that can connect to and search all of the services you are subscribed to. So I would: - Subscribe to Netflix - Subscribe to Disney - Install my streaming frontend of choice - Connect both services either using an API key or PIN or SSO, etc Now I can give them my money every month and have one interface to access all the services. Sure, they may want to offer different features to differentiate their brand but that can be accounted for to some degree in the agreed standard. Or something. I dunno what's going to fix this miss.
  - iamdave 8y ago
    So an online cable company? I was wondering if I'd see the day where the "buy from one get access to all" content consumption model came back, but applied to streaming services.
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rm_-rf_slash 8y ago

Looks like every content producer wants their own streaming service these days, and for good reason too. Good video content is expensive to produce. Why give Netflix all that extra margin? My only concern is whether consumers will opt for a bunch of different streaming subscriptions instead of the old duo, Netflix and Hulu, with a side of HBO? At some point it’s just going to be too much to pay for, and there’s only so much television one can watch in a month. A subscription service for a solid niche will do fine - Disney is all but assured to have a permanent subscription from their dedicated fans and the parents of young children, and Marvel pretty much owns the superhero entertainment space - but what is Netflix’s niche? A browse through their original content is a spray-and-pray of categories that seeks to grab ahold of everyone. Some of it is pretty good, a fair amount is mediocre, and the vast majority I will never watch or probably even know exists. At what point is a subscriber going to shrug their shoulders and cancel all-for-all Netflix in favor of a subscription to a smaller selection of the stuff they love the most?

senectus1 8y ago

way to go guys... I was just beginning to think that piracy was almost irrelevant now...

ProfessorLayton 8y ago

I really do believe that Netflix has some hard times ahead. Disney has been slowly but surely getting all of its ducks in a row, and with the Fox buyout, it seems like it's set to setup a very compelling streaming service — to the detriment of competitors. Disney will own 39% of the theatrical marketshare once the fox acquisition closes [1]. They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so. The problem for Netflix is that they'll effectively be middlemen unless they start competing like their competitors do: A vertically integrated media business where they own and distribute their own content. Yes, they've been pouring billions into their library, but it looks like it could be too little too late, much of it is too low quality, imho. [1] https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/disney-fox-deal-antitrust-enforcement-1202637338/ https://variety.com/2017/politics/news/disney-fox-deal-antit...

lylecubed 8y ago
> They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so. They have to make that streaming service first. Disney has a long history of acquiring internet and game companies only to shut them down a year or two later when they prove unsuccessful. Their own endeavors in the web and game space have been wildly unsuccessful. They fundamentally do not understand the internet and I see no indication that has changed.

explainplease 8y ago

Netflix won't see another cent of my money until they stop promoting teen suicide and pay restitution to the families of the girls who killed themselves after binge-watching 13 Reasons Why.

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friedButter 8y ago

I suspect they will still be available on TPB and friends