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Netflix cuts 300 more jobs after subscriptions fall
- de6u99er 4y agoThe real issue is, that people can watch everything interesting when they subscribe for one month per year. If I were Netflix I would only provide content to viewers that was released during the months they paid for. I would allow them to get previous months content only if they subscribe guaranteed for that many months in the future as they want to watch in the past. Another thing Netflix needs to do is let go of those producers that don't perform. There's simply too much garbage noone is watching on Netflix. And let's face it, Netflix is not a caritative company. This could be easily regulated if people got paid a percentage of the income such content generates. This would lead to actors only starring in projects that look promising, and producers and directors only touching quality material.
- trh0awayman 4y agoNetflix's mail-order service was bar none one of the best things that ever happened. They had a very, very good film and TV library. We would receive 2 DVDs at once, usually watch them and send them back, sometimes on the same day. It was really easy to use, too. The library was clobbered at some point, or maybe slowly over time. What happened? They don't even have 1/10th of what they used to have. It's not surprising people are unsubscribing.
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agocompetition maybe. seems everyone and their dog is running a subscription service now. i contracted briefly for lovefilm who ran a similar system in the UK. they were eventually bought and merged into amazon prime video.
- predictsoft 4y agoIn the UK, Lovefilm has been shut down, but CinemaParadiso.co.uk is a great rental service I found.
- lloydatkinson 4y agoThe constant back and forth of classic favourites like Friends, The Office, and all the various Star Treks, being listed and delisted certainly makes me wonder if I should just subscribe for a month, watch what I want, then cancel for a few months.
- yurishimo 4y agoIf you like watching the same things all of the time, why not buy your own copy of those shows and watch the local copies?
- lloydatkinson 4y agoYeah, I'll just torrent them.
- memsom 4y agoThey have content deals, and when they expire they have to renegotiate. The problem is, there are so many territories and so many little competitors now, someone will likely outbid them and the service will then lose that content.
- rasz 4y agoMaybe physical distribution still has some advantages. Instead of sending DVD/BR by mail lets sell disk and drive in the cloud? I know that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo failed in supreme court by trying to argue they were renting remote antenna/tuner. The difference is: 1 they were leasing 2 it was OTA broadcasts, made them look like a cable company What if you could buy a movie disk and a dedicated drive. After your first purchase you would have right to resell it back to company (at a fixed price) or anybody else wanting to watch it with a drive in same data center at whatever price you wish (open market). Subscription would cover power/colocation and egress VPN. No Video streaming would be taking place - your drive would be mounted remotely over the network and work with any DVD/BR player. Would that survive lawsuits?
- ronsor 4y agoI think there was a service that operated similarly, for the sake of offering content filtering for parents. They were sued and shut down. In general, DVD/BD streaming over the Internet would require breaking the DRM, which is a big no-no.
- rasz 4y agoIts not video streaming. Real SATA BR drive is mounted remotely, either with a movie already slotted in or connected to custom bulk disk loader/changer. It shows up in your desktop as another drive letter and requires normal bluray player to operate thus No DRM bypassed. The question is can you legally play your own disk using your own disk player .. over the network?
- ecaradec 4y agoMy understand is that having the copyright they have the right to acknowledge any copy happening even if it’s in a cache somewhere, on a wire somewhere. If you mount a drive remotely copies happens. Actually with dvd copies happens in memory too but those have been legally authorized.
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- olegious 4y agoThe studios decided that rather than to lease (not sure if that's the right term) content to Netflix they can release their own streaming services and make more money. Disney, Paramount, Sony all have their own services and those are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more...
- DoingIsLearning 4y agoYes but this will lead to what is now a pretty clear balcanization of the streaming services. The point of streaming is convenience, if I need to collect 5x or 6x film and music streaming services to have the experience I want, then I might as well just go back to sailing the high seas.
- midislack 4y agoZoomers can't pirate, they don't even know what directories are.
- olegious 4y agoWe understand that, but I don't think the streaming services do, or more than likely, they're chasing quarterly numbers and don't care that in a few years piracy will skyrocket- the execs would've gotten their bonuses by then.
- arlcode 4y agoDon't worry someone will reinvent cable TV packaging soon enough. There is only so much money people are willing to pay for entertainment. Bundling allows them to squeeze out that extra euro for stuff the customer doesn't really want.
- ydlr 4y agoThey let the dvd-by-mail service degrade and die from neglect. Turn around time got longer and longer. Discs were regularly scratched and unplayable. But it was great while it lasted. The reason the streaming selection is worse is simple: content licenses. Netflix didn't need permission from studios to mail discs. They do for streaming. Netflix has made themselves dependent on their biggest competitors for content. The moment they switched to streaming, their death warrant was signed. They have been living on borrowed time while the big studios ramp up their own streaming service.
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- PeterStuer 4y agoIMHO The sheer lack of decent content output from the US media industry over the last decade will play a major role in the decline of these services.
- tluyben2 4y agoI find the European content quite good generally; the US content degraded, somehow, in a, for my friends and me, unbelievable over the top woke and inclusive ‘thing’ without a cohesive and usually simply weak/bad story. I hear from my US friends that they feel the same.
- dijonman2 4y ago%100. Hollywood is now ultra woke and I just don’t enjoy the content anymore. It seems as if the primary goal of production is now to virtue signal instead of focus on artistic excellence.
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- ChrisRR 4y agoGot any examples of how it's getting too woke to enjoy? And how it's so bad that it would ruin an entire form of media? If hollywood has anything to blame it's the reliance on less risky, more cookie cutter films. I mean how does generic crap like Holmes and Watson get made, because it's simple and they know it'll sell.
- thakoppno 4y agoSomeone here raised an interesting theory that the reliance on overseas markets require plot lines that translate easily and suggested this negatively impacted quality in storytelling. The Marvel cinematic universe films were cited as an example.
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- SamuelAdams 4y agoDoes anyone really think a free / ad-teir is going to increase subscriber counts? If the quality of the content is at best B rated, why would people continue to spend their time on Netflix?
- de6u99er 4y agoI would never use such a service.
- brianwawok 4y agoSure, there are many people who will watch hours of commercials to save $5. Ad-supported Netflix content likely beats what you can get via rabbit ears.
- effingwewt 4y agoNo, rabbit ears are a one time purchase of $5. For that you put up with ads. The balls of companies just acting like we have to take this shit. Subscription fee and ads? This is why people sail the high seas. Companies abuse us so long kids grow up thinking it's normal, next thing you know it is. We should have stopped cable companies from using ads. I can't wait until I can charge companies for my stolen time via ads. Billboards, walking through any place with a TV the intrusions are endless and they act entitled to my attention.
- ChrisRR 4y agoProbably the same reason people play absolute shit tier mobile games full of ads and with next to no gameplay, because it's free. People will absolutely jump through hoops and take low quality products if it avoids spending 10 quid
- egberts1 4y agoIs it because of which premise that is the cause for falling subscription with Netflix: - People learning to share up to six accounts or - Netflix disabling sharing based on wider GeoIP locale?
- hulitu 4y agoor no content available ? 2 Python movies, 1 Mel Brooks etc. A bit expensive for 11 € per month.
- Jemm 4y agoUsing your workers as a profit buffer is horrible.
- bumblebritches5 4y ago