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This could also have led to a bad ending. They could have killed what would make Netflix great and successful.

• School-Cotton 4y ago
  > They could have killed what would make Netflix great and successful You mean like Netflix is doing now?
  • toomuchtodo 4y ago
    Yes but without making all those tech folks rich first. (not hating, get rich if you can)
  • isk517 4y ago
    Yeah, but it's taken them the better part of a decade to do that. If they had been bought by Blockbuster they would have had access to people with the know-how and experience necessary to destroy a successful business quicker and more efficiently.
  • dnissley 4y ago
    Yes, but without the cambrian explosion of content that netflix footed the bill for over so many years
    • echelon 4y ago
      Netflix did not create a Cambrian explosion of video content. That would be YouTube and TikTok. The Cambrian explosion of cinema is still waiting to happen, but generative AI is poised to deliver on that sooner or later.
      • Clamchop 4y ago
        I think if we constrain it to scripted television (and a fair number of movies now, too), they did. House of Cards was a big deal for being a streaming-first big-budget TV show. That's commonplace now. That wasn't that long ago. Since then, all of the major players have joined the table, sunk audacious sums of money into developing new projects, and there's more high-end TV made in a year than I can watch. Cue the flip "but none of it is any good" comments but nevertheless, Netflix blazed that trail.
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