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You don’t have to like Netflix, but as far as the UI goes, where are you finding better content discovery for shows and movies?

dylan604 5y ago
They all suck. Look at each platform's verion of "Trending Now". It's just a rehash of titles in the other categories prominently displayed in "Just Added" or other some such listing of 10 to at most 20 titles. Of course those are trending because discovery of titles suck and people just give up and choose something that's right in front of them. I want to "discover" by browsing not the most current titles available in this current licensing window. I want to be able to browse from the evergreen catalog. I want to see the things that don't have a high dollar marketing campaign guaranteeing prominent placement. Maybe these platforms don't have a large inventory of evergreen content??? There are times I want to find some title that is older. The content that wasn't along the outer walls of Blockbuster.
- wbsss4412 5y ago
  I would agree with you that that all suck, and the quality of Netflix has certainly gone downhill. But you pretty much answered your own question. The platforms don’t have giant catalogs of evergreen & niche content, because that is extremely expensive to license. That’s not really a discovery problem, though. The trade off is of course, the old buying/renting model. But that’s oriented much more towards the enthusiast consumer, which I am not and it would seem you are.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    The evergreen titles are usually the back catalog of the various studios. However, since all of the various studios seem to be creating their own streaming service, I can see how Netflix might be short on that content. However, finding these titles on the various studio services is also not as easy to discover. Mainly because these nascent services know they have to get their A-list content out first to attract users. The process of bringing the back catalog stuff onto these new services will take time. In the meantime, we're just stuck being force fed what the studios want us to see.
    - wbsss4412 5y ago
      Yeah it’s a content ownership and licensing problem more than anything else.
haihaibye 5y ago
Chromecast is better, even if it didn't integrate multiple streaming services. It would be trivial for Netflix to show imdb/rotten tomato scores, but they don't want you to easily see the masses of mediocrity in their selection.

dylan604 5y ago

They all suck. Look at each platform's verion of "Trending Now". It's just a rehash of titles in the other categories prominently displayed in "Just Added" or other some such listing of 10 to at most 20 titles. Of course those are trending because discovery of titles suck and people just give up and choose something that's right in front of them. I want to "discover" by browsing not the most current titles available in this current licensing window. I want to be able to browse from the evergreen catalog. I want to see the things that don't have a high dollar marketing campaign guaranteeing prominent placement. Maybe these platforms don't have a large inventory of evergreen content??? There are times I want to find some title that is older. The content that wasn't along the outer walls of Blockbuster.

wbsss4412 5y ago
I would agree with you that that all suck, and the quality of Netflix has certainly gone downhill. But you pretty much answered your own question. The platforms don’t have giant catalogs of evergreen & niche content, because that is extremely expensive to license. That’s not really a discovery problem, though. The trade off is of course, the old buying/renting model. But that’s oriented much more towards the enthusiast consumer, which I am not and it would seem you are.
- dylan604 5y ago
  The evergreen titles are usually the back catalog of the various studios. However, since all of the various studios seem to be creating their own streaming service, I can see how Netflix might be short on that content. However, finding these titles on the various studio services is also not as easy to discover. Mainly because these nascent services know they have to get their A-list content out first to attract users. The process of bringing the back catalog stuff onto these new services will take time. In the meantime, we're just stuck being force fed what the studios want us to see.
  - wbsss4412 5y ago
    Yeah it’s a content ownership and licensing problem more than anything else.

haihaibye 5y ago

Chromecast is better, even if it didn't integrate multiple streaming services. It would be trivial for Netflix to show imdb/rotten tomato scores, but they don't want you to easily see the masses of mediocrity in their selection.