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Disney has so much less content, and I really don't mind it. There's nothing I hate more than logging into Netflix after a month and everything I was vaguely i

Disney has so much less content, and I really don't mind it. There's nothing I hate more than logging into Netflix after a month and everything I was vaguely interested in has now completely disappeared and been replaced by even more half-assed looking projects. Also, shout out to Disney for actually making it easy to restart a show from the beginning. I don't understand how Netflix has dropped so much money into children's programming without doing any sort of user testing to find out that kids generally like watching the same shows again.

Scaevolus 4y ago
Disney even lets you pin shows so you don't have to keep searching for them!
- nathanbarry 4y ago
  I didn't know that! runs off to pin the animated robin hood for my 3 year old
- TheBrokenRail 4y ago
  Paramount+ also allows you to this.
- mherdeg 4y ago
  My least favorite disneyplus.com experience is using the desktop site to try to find an episode of Bluey which the kids are asking for. "We want to watch 'The Beach', please." OK let's go to disneyplus.com and type in "Bluey" (no search by episode name). There are 3 seasons available. I can see five episode titles at a time. Hmm, how do I see more episodes? Oh right, if I hover my mouse over episode 6, a right arrow is visible. Let's tap that one...two...three..four times, here we go, s01e26 The Beach. There are about 50 episodes per season, so good luck finding s02e45. Also, the order in which they are shelved on Disney Plus sometimes varies versus what's shown in Web searches for the episode order.
  - dools 4y ago
    You can search the episodes in google eg. bluey "the beach" episode
  - godmode2019 4y ago
    YouTube search is really good for that. "Muddy trucks please" Me types "muddy trucks kids show". Exact show is in the top 5 and you have the hover to play snippet feature that gives the kids an idea if its the show they wanted to see.
paul7986 4y ago
Disney also owns awesome legacy IP; superheros, star wars, pixar and disney movies. It's also a lot cheaper and indeed less bloated. Netflix has zero such legacy content and it's more expensive; soon even harder to use with them locking down sharing!
- cgriswald 4y ago
  Netflix is also doling out shows a few episodes a week to keep people from subscribing, binging, and unsubscribing. That works fine for something like Stranger Things but they're even doing it for shows no one is subscribing to see. Frankly, the ability to binge a show is like decanting a wine or heating sake. It can make a mediocre show a lot better. Taking away that ability should be used with caution. As a long time subscriber, it's got me thinking about only subscribing a few months a year; since I'd usually rather wait to binge a show anyway... Why they can't link account age and binge-ability isn't clear to me; guessing something to do with contracts.
  - foobazgt 4y ago
    Netflix ending binge watching is reported to be a rumor: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-binge-release-series-strategy-1235407736/ https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-binge-release-... (/me busy binge watching the latest Dragon Prince release).
    - cgriswald 4y ago
      The only source we have that it's a rumor is Netflix. Netflix is also my source: Several shows that were released in bulk for previous seasons are releasing between 1 and 3 episodes per week for their current seasons.
      - foobazgt 4y ago
        True, I am relying on their statement. That said, my personal experience is that Netflix is generally still binge-able while every other streaming service is not. Maybe you and I are watching different content.
Barrin92 4y ago
>and been replaced by even more half-assed looking projects the "half-assed" projects are the only thing that has me coming back. Netflix in contrast to a lot of the other services still has a decent amount in particular foreign and original IP. Most recent example, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, that would not be on Disney+. I just don't care about the 50th take on Star Wars. Given the numbers apparently I'm the only one on the planet but I just don't understand it.
- rodgerd 4y ago
  You aren't the only one, but this year has seen both streamers take an axe to a lot of their interesting pieces, particularly for kids: Amphibia, Ghost City, The Owl House, Hilda, Baby Sitter's Club, and Kid Cosmic all off the top of my head.
- Cyph0n 4y ago
  Netflix does indeed have some “hidden” gems. But I’d say that HBO takes the cake for unique shows with consistent quality that are - most importantly - allowed to run to completion. My go-to example is The Leftovers. What kind of network would ever greenlight that kind of show, let alone have it run for three whole seasons to its natural conclusion?
  - kranke155 4y ago
    Hopefully this will remain now that HBO has changed hands. HBO quality is really second to none in shows for you know, adults.
    - lotsofpulp 4y ago
      ATT has already fired the original crew of HBO executives that curated HBO’s selection, and now that the reality TV show sellers are the bosses, I doubt they will want to take the chances that the old HBO bosses had taken.
      - kranke155 4y ago
rabuse 4y ago
They have less content, but Netflix is seriously full of so much trash content. I've rarely enjoyed a Netflix original movie.
- grogenaut 4y ago
  I mostly agree tho there are some decent ones. I liked both enola homes movies for instance. but that's the ones I can think of off of the top of my head.
- enumjorge 4y ago
  They’re original stuff is often so incredibly generic and uninspiring. They might have changed how they display shows recently, but I swear there was a period of time not long ago when the main image for a show would only have a single person with a nondescript background. It felt like the whole thing was algorithmically generated.
  - legitster 4y ago
    > It felt like the whole thing was algorithmically generated. It is: https://www.looper.com/274997/the-secret-behind-netflixs-personalized-thumbnails/ https://www.looper.com/274997/the-secret-behind-netflixs-per...
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  - hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
    > They’re original stuff is often so incredibly generic and uninspiring. And to think these are supposed to be opposites... When Netflix started doing their own productions, I think everybody understood it was the right business decision - to make them less dependent on big studios. But they spectacularly failed. Apart from a few shows everything else is so generic, there is no character in it. It is as if they were afraid of experimenting, of adding some creativity, of being a failure. Well it's all just uninteresting - it turns our I prefer to watch interesting free content on Youtube than supposedly premium content on Netflix.
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duxup 4y ago
I kinda hate how the lack of content is filled in by a lot of National Geographic Channel low quality infotainment. It is a very strange contrast to have such high quality and garbage next to each other. Also the restart show works, but not a whole series… it will still sometimes get confused and jump ahead because you watched future shows.
Silhouette 4y ago
Disney has so much less content Does it really? (Serious question.) We got Disney because of the Disney part but I was pleasantly surprised by how much other big name content is on there. I'm hardly highbrow in my viewing habits and enjoy a good blockbuster movie or popular show as much as anyone. I do like to spend my limited viewing time on stuff that isn't complete junk though. I've all but stopped even checking Netflix now because the odds of anything on there being Netflix-made junk that I won't even finish watching are so high. Meanwhile I'm probably working through a couple of different shows and have several movies waiting at any given time on Disney. I suspect our Netflix subscription will be ending soon as I don't think anyone else in the house is watching anything on there either right now.
gnufied 4y ago
This is disney+hulu+espn combined! When hotstar was bundled with Hulu - hulu suddenly got huge infusion of Indian movies and shows. Nothing Netflix has even comes close. I wonder also, if they are counting hotstar, which is pretty big in India. Having said that - I personally find content on disney+ boring and stale. Some Marvel and Star War spin offs are okay, but most are meh. I don't know how to put it, but disney+ is trying too hard to en-cash popularity of existing franchise and I believe lacks depth. Netflix while has uneven programming has/had shows which are pretty good and break new ground(IMO). Queen's Gambit, Dragon Prince, Arcana etc are pretty good. They have also wasted money on the whole witcher show and their "original" movies are by and large meh.
arwineap 4y ago
> Also, shout out to Disney for actually making it easy to restart a show from the beginning. I don't understand how Netflix has dropped so much money into children's programming without doing any sort of user testing to find out that kids generally like watching the same shows again. I'm baffled at how much of a pain this is. Don't show him more stuff, he very clearly wants to watch what he's chosen; yes again, what do you want from me?

Scaevolus 4y ago

Disney even lets you pin shows so you don't have to keep searching for them!

nathanbarry 4y ago
I didn't know that! runs off to pin the animated robin hood for my 3 year old
TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Paramount+ also allows you to this.
mherdeg 4y ago
My least favorite disneyplus.com experience is using the desktop site to try to find an episode of Bluey which the kids are asking for. "We want to watch 'The Beach', please." OK let's go to disneyplus.com and type in "Bluey" (no search by episode name). There are 3 seasons available. I can see five episode titles at a time. Hmm, how do I see more episodes? Oh right, if I hover my mouse over episode 6, a right arrow is visible. Let's tap that one...two...three..four times, here we go, s01e26 The Beach. There are about 50 episodes per season, so good luck finding s02e45. Also, the order in which they are shelved on Disney Plus sometimes varies versus what's shown in Web searches for the episode order.
- dools 4y ago
  You can search the episodes in google eg. bluey "the beach" episode
- godmode2019 4y ago
  YouTube search is really good for that. "Muddy trucks please" Me types "muddy trucks kids show". Exact show is in the top 5 and you have the hover to play snippet feature that gives the kids an idea if its the show they wanted to see.

paul7986 4y ago

Disney also owns awesome legacy IP; superheros, star wars, pixar and disney movies. It's also a lot cheaper and indeed less bloated. Netflix has zero such legacy content and it's more expensive; soon even harder to use with them locking down sharing!

cgriswald 4y ago
Netflix is also doling out shows a few episodes a week to keep people from subscribing, binging, and unsubscribing. That works fine for something like Stranger Things but they're even doing it for shows no one is subscribing to see. Frankly, the ability to binge a show is like decanting a wine or heating sake. It can make a mediocre show a lot better. Taking away that ability should be used with caution. As a long time subscriber, it's got me thinking about only subscribing a few months a year; since I'd usually rather wait to binge a show anyway... Why they can't link account age and binge-ability isn't clear to me; guessing something to do with contracts.
- foobazgt 4y ago
  Netflix ending binge watching is reported to be a rumor: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-binge-release-series-strategy-1235407736/ https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-binge-release-... (/me busy binge watching the latest Dragon Prince release).
  - cgriswald 4y ago
    The only source we have that it's a rumor is Netflix. Netflix is also my source: Several shows that were released in bulk for previous seasons are releasing between 1 and 3 episodes per week for their current seasons.
    - foobazgt 4y ago
      True, I am relying on their statement. That said, my personal experience is that Netflix is generally still binge-able while every other streaming service is not. Maybe you and I are watching different content.

Barrin92 4y ago

>and been replaced by even more half-assed looking projects the "half-assed" projects are the only thing that has me coming back. Netflix in contrast to a lot of the other services still has a decent amount in particular foreign and original IP. Most recent example, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, that would not be on Disney+. I just don't care about the 50th take on Star Wars. Given the numbers apparently I'm the only one on the planet but I just don't understand it.

rodgerd 4y ago
You aren't the only one, but this year has seen both streamers take an axe to a lot of their interesting pieces, particularly for kids: Amphibia, Ghost City, The Owl House, Hilda, Baby Sitter's Club, and Kid Cosmic all off the top of my head.
Cyph0n 4y ago
Netflix does indeed have some “hidden” gems. But I’d say that HBO takes the cake for unique shows with consistent quality that are - most importantly - allowed to run to completion. My go-to example is The Leftovers. What kind of network would ever greenlight that kind of show, let alone have it run for three whole seasons to its natural conclusion?
- kranke155 4y ago
  Hopefully this will remain now that HBO has changed hands. HBO quality is really second to none in shows for you know, adults.
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    ATT has already fired the original crew of HBO executives that curated HBO’s selection, and now that the reality TV show sellers are the bosses, I doubt they will want to take the chances that the old HBO bosses had taken.
    - kranke155 4y ago

rabuse 4y ago

They have less content, but Netflix is seriously full of so much trash content. I've rarely enjoyed a Netflix original movie.

grogenaut 4y ago
I mostly agree tho there are some decent ones. I liked both enola homes movies for instance. but that's the ones I can think of off of the top of my head.
enumjorge 4y ago
They’re original stuff is often so incredibly generic and uninspiring. They might have changed how they display shows recently, but I swear there was a period of time not long ago when the main image for a show would only have a single person with a nondescript background. It felt like the whole thing was algorithmically generated.
- legitster 4y ago
  > It felt like the whole thing was algorithmically generated. It is: https://www.looper.com/274997/the-secret-behind-netflixs-personalized-thumbnails/ https://www.looper.com/274997/the-secret-behind-netflixs-per...
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- hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
  > They’re original stuff is often so incredibly generic and uninspiring. And to think these are supposed to be opposites... When Netflix started doing their own productions, I think everybody understood it was the right business decision - to make them less dependent on big studios. But they spectacularly failed. Apart from a few shows everything else is so generic, there is no character in it. It is as if they were afraid of experimenting, of adding some creativity, of being a failure. Well it's all just uninteresting - it turns our I prefer to watch interesting free content on Youtube than supposedly premium content on Netflix.
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duxup 4y ago

I kinda hate how the lack of content is filled in by a lot of National Geographic Channel low quality infotainment. It is a very strange contrast to have such high quality and garbage next to each other. Also the restart show works, but not a whole series… it will still sometimes get confused and jump ahead because you watched future shows.

Silhouette 4y ago

Disney has so much less content Does it really? (Serious question.) We got Disney because of the Disney part but I was pleasantly surprised by how much other big name content is on there. I'm hardly highbrow in my viewing habits and enjoy a good blockbuster movie or popular show as much as anyone. I do like to spend my limited viewing time on stuff that isn't complete junk though. I've all but stopped even checking Netflix now because the odds of anything on there being Netflix-made junk that I won't even finish watching are so high. Meanwhile I'm probably working through a couple of different shows and have several movies waiting at any given time on Disney. I suspect our Netflix subscription will be ending soon as I don't think anyone else in the house is watching anything on there either right now.

gnufied 4y ago

This is disney+hulu+espn combined! When hotstar was bundled with Hulu - hulu suddenly got huge infusion of Indian movies and shows. Nothing Netflix has even comes close. I wonder also, if they are counting hotstar, which is pretty big in India. Having said that - I personally find content on disney+ boring and stale. Some Marvel and Star War spin offs are okay, but most are meh. I don't know how to put it, but disney+ is trying too hard to en-cash popularity of existing franchise and I believe lacks depth. Netflix while has uneven programming has/had shows which are pretty good and break new ground(IMO). Queen's Gambit, Dragon Prince, Arcana etc are pretty good. They have also wasted money on the whole witcher show and their "original" movies are by and large meh.

arwineap 4y ago

> Also, shout out to Disney for actually making it easy to restart a show from the beginning. I don't understand how Netflix has dropped so much money into children's programming without doing any sort of user testing to find out that kids generally like watching the same shows again. I'm baffled at how much of a pain this is. Don't show him more stuff, he very clearly wants to watch what he's chosen; yes again, what do you want from me?