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Netflix has reshaped the whole industry for the better. Netflix by itself at $13 per month is nearly as much content as you'd get in a small cable package in th

Netflix has reshaped the whole industry for the better. Netflix by itself at $13 per month is nearly as much content as you'd get in a small cable package in the "old days of TV." Of course, in the future, if you actually tried to watch everything available, you'd be paying for some crazy mega-bundle like the old cable days. Otherwise, things are clearly better as Netflix runs away with streaming and forces the other media companies to compete.

losteric 7y ago
Eh... it's turning out that Netflix just introduced a new medium for cable. Now that every content owner is starting their own services, we're losing the thing that made Netflix revolutionary: loads of quality and diverse content under one subscription. Personally, the shows I'm interested in are spread across a half dozen services... and only one or two really warrant full engagement (versus "background entertainment")... so obviously it's back to bittorrent for me.
- treis 7y ago
  >Eh... it's turning out that Netflix just introduced a new medium for cable. The thing no one really talks about is that cable companies never really made (relatively) that much money. The content producers are the ones that have always made the real money. Most of your bill goes to them. Ultimately, Netflix is just another middle man between you and the content. You still have to pay for wires but now there's another hand taking their share. In the long term they can't be cheaper. The reason it was cheaper was that for a long time they were seen as free additional revenue for content producers. Like someone making a living off of discarded garbage. Eventually the people throwing that stuff away wise up and want their normal cut. We are pretty much there at this point.
- glaberficken 7y ago
  i'm wondering the same. currently a Netflix subscriber. but back in the day i had a NAS box hitting a preconfigured rss feed with the shows i watched. was pretty convenient and the NAS could stream to every device on my wifi
  - xnyan 7y ago
    https://sonarr.tv https://sonarr.tv.
- dwild 7y ago
  > we're losing the thing that made Netflix revolutionary: loads of quality and diverse content under one subscription. You are forgetting at a amazingly low price. People are cancelling Netflix because it's "too expensive now" while it's still quite a bit cheaper than cable. People have an hard time considering paying 2 streaming service, while it is still cheaper than cable service.
scarface74 7y ago
Netflix is turning into just another premium channel as they lose content. You can even buy it as part of your cable subscription with some providers.
yummypaint 7y ago
The problem with netflix is that it isnt really a library of content. Its ok as a direct cable tv substitute if you just want something to watch, but when i want to watch a specific movie, even popular classics, netflix usually doesnt have it available. Despite this people seem to think its a viable replacement for having copies of files.

losteric 7y ago

Eh... it's turning out that Netflix just introduced a new medium for cable. Now that every content owner is starting their own services, we're losing the thing that made Netflix revolutionary: loads of quality and diverse content under one subscription. Personally, the shows I'm interested in are spread across a half dozen services... and only one or two really warrant full engagement (versus "background entertainment")... so obviously it's back to bittorrent for me.

treis 7y ago
>Eh... it's turning out that Netflix just introduced a new medium for cable. The thing no one really talks about is that cable companies never really made (relatively) that much money. The content producers are the ones that have always made the real money. Most of your bill goes to them. Ultimately, Netflix is just another middle man between you and the content. You still have to pay for wires but now there's another hand taking their share. In the long term they can't be cheaper. The reason it was cheaper was that for a long time they were seen as free additional revenue for content producers. Like someone making a living off of discarded garbage. Eventually the people throwing that stuff away wise up and want their normal cut. We are pretty much there at this point.
glaberficken 7y ago
i'm wondering the same. currently a Netflix subscriber. but back in the day i had a NAS box hitting a preconfigured rss feed with the shows i watched. was pretty convenient and the NAS could stream to every device on my wifi
- xnyan 7y ago
  https://sonarr.tv https://sonarr.tv.
dwild 7y ago
> we're losing the thing that made Netflix revolutionary: loads of quality and diverse content under one subscription. You are forgetting at a amazingly low price. People are cancelling Netflix because it's "too expensive now" while it's still quite a bit cheaper than cable. People have an hard time considering paying 2 streaming service, while it is still cheaper than cable service.

scarface74 7y ago

Netflix is turning into just another premium channel as they lose content. You can even buy it as part of your cable subscription with some providers.

yummypaint 7y ago

The problem with netflix is that it isnt really a library of content. Its ok as a direct cable tv substitute if you just want something to watch, but when i want to watch a specific movie, even popular classics, netflix usually doesnt have it available. Despite this people seem to think its a viable replacement for having copies of files.