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Because scale is not trivial. Netflix offers more titles (I'm assuming) than all of those services combined, and more importantly, over many many times more sim
by jakeinspace 8y ago
Because scale is not trivial. Netflix offers more titles (I'm assuming) than all of those services combined, and more importantly, over many many times more simultaneous streams. Sure, there may be engineering effort being wasted in the ML-fueled-recommendation department, but their back-end is expensive for a reason.
- user5994461 8y agoIf anything, the amount of titles on Netflix is risible. There are only so few TV shows with only a few episodes a year. The little variety of content is a great advantage, it takes little storage and it's very cache friendly. It's countless orders of magnitude below user generated content like youtube/dailymotion/vimeo. It shouldn't be much different than video archives from TV or large studios.