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> There's so much more on the DVD service than the streaming side This is something I've wondered about. I've never subscribed to either CDs or streaming but m
by glaucon 3y ago
> There's so much more on the DVD service than the streaming side
This is something I've wondered about. I've never subscribed to either CDs or streaming but my impression of streaming is that there are hundreds of movies not tens of thousands. Wikipedia says that in 2005 Netflix had 35,000 different movies on disk, presumably many more by now. How many different titles does Netflix streaming have for the USA service ?
- khedoros1 3y agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/1110424/svod-content-catalog-size-by-type-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1110424/svod-content-cat... That site claims that they've got about 3600 TV series and 3700 movies in their US streaming catalog, as of January 2023.
- glaucon 3y agoInteresting, thanks. I certainly don't know this but my impression is that outside of the US (specifically in New Zealand) the Netflix catalogue would be significantly smaller than that, around 1/10th of both categories ? ... this is just based on sitting in hotel rooms thumbing through the menu so it's possible my sense of what's available is off.
- vidarh 3y agoNetflix puts you in a bubble very quickly, and unless you specifically search for titles outside it you might not notice that a lot of the available titles never show up in any of the menus.
- pests 3y agoI purposefully create multiple Netflix profiles for myself to avoid that bubble. When I notice I keep seeing the same titles or when I notice one genre is taking over (started watching anime on Netflix recently - bad idea, every row is now nothing but anime) I make a new profile to start fresh. Usually find tons of new things I was missing out on.