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I remember the days (circa 2009/2010) where the main complaint about streaming Netflix was that there was nothing on it compared to the disk collection. When ex
by akhilcacharya 7y ago
I remember the days (circa 2009/2010) where the main complaint about streaming Netflix was that there was nothing on it compared to the disk collection. When exactly did that change?
There must have been a brief “monopoly period” when Netflix had all of the content, but I don’t remember it.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoMaybe there wasn't. Maybe they just had enough stuff. I started using it when they added Star Trek: TNG, later on they added quite a lot of things I was interested in too. At their peak, they had about every other thing I wanted to watch (or rewatch). Then, the shows and movies started disappearing. This is what annoyed me most - I wanted to rewatch something I've seen few months earlier, or to show it to my SO, and suddenly it isn't there. This became a regular occurence, and I think this is where people started noticing something is wrong.
- matwood 7y ago> There must have been a brief “monopoly period” when Netflix had all of the content, but I don’t remember it. I think it's important to segment the content into movies and TV shows. At one point Netflix did have a lot of popular TV shows, and new seasons seem to show up pretty quickly. Netflix never really had a huge selection of popular movies. Some here and there, but never a deep catalog.
- mattkrause 7y agoStreaming didn't, but the DVD service had an absurdly deep catalog.
- Mindwipe 7y ago> There must have been a brief “monopoly period” when Netflix had all of the content, but I don’t remember it. It literally never happened except in the collective desperation of certain HN posters to justify piracy to themselves.