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I only recently got Netflix, but I was quite surprised to see how many films they don't have. If a random film pops into my head, it seems like there's only a 1
by bootlooped 8y ago
I only recently got Netflix, but I was quite surprised to see how many films they don't have. If a random film pops into my head, it seems like there's only a 10 or 20 percent chance it's going to be on there. Even stuff that I would think would be cheap to license, like movies 20+ years old. Amazon Prime Video is just as bad, probably worse.
Compare that to Spotify, which will have a song I want 95% of the time or more.
The value of Netflix is not that high for me right now. With ads it will be even lower.
- jonny_eh 8y agoNetflix streaming was never intended as a one stop shop for movies. Who told you it was?
- coldtea 8y agoThat's what people want though. Who told them not to make it such?
- rockengineerpm 8y agoIt wouldn't be $10 a month then
- coldtea 8y agoWhy not? Does the average person earn the total movie industry more money in any other way? Having 100 million subs (Netflix has 120 million atm) would then give you 1 billion per month -- which sounds decent enough to support a comprehensive movie archive, especially since most of it would be a long tail of movies that make tiny or no profit today and that would cost next to nothing to store for the occasional user. And for the popular titles, you could even opt for a distributed (e.g. bittorrent like) serving, to further lower your costs.
- rosege 8y agoThey announced a year or two ago they were changing their budget to be less film and more their own content. Which makes sense given they have to license things in each region vs making something and being able to use it globally.