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> If you look at the amount and cost of content over the last decade it was clear it was unsustainable. The amount we all were paying vs. the amount of content

> If you look at the amount and cost of content over the last decade it was clear it was unsustainable. The amount we all were paying vs. the amount of content was/is staggering. We were in a content golden age. Nonsense. You know what actually had a staggering amount of content? Disc-based Netflix. They had and made available damned near everything. I’d happily go back to slower (legal) access to damned near everything rather than stay with the status quo of heavily fragmented fiefdoms, each ever more enshittified and with comparatively narrow selections of stale low-value crap available on-demand.

electric_mayhem 3y ago
Love the downvotes for bringing facts.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  >Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
  - southernplaces7 3y ago
    Why not? Sometimes people downvoate a perfectly good, informative or interesting comment for completely stupid, bullshit cliquish reasons on HN and it absolutely deserves to be called out when it's obvious.
    - johnnyanmac 3y ago
      I mean, the explanation is in the rule itself. Has anything magically changed overtime because someone doubled down and said "oh no I'm being attacked with downvotes!". Never saw it end positively on Reddit, never saw it end positively on HN. Also, it's all about the delivery. >Love the downvotes for bringing facts. just comes off as snark. If you really want to invite more nuanced responses to the clique, say so >I am open to rebuttals or corrections if I'm incorrect on something. replies matter so much more than points. That's why the points aren't public to begin with. So invite that instead of pseudo-begging for upvotes.
matwood 3y ago
Netflix disc had everything in a much smaller universe of content. The amount of money spent creating content over the last decade is staggering as is the number of shows/movies coming out. https://www.statista.com/statistics/444870/scripted-primetime-tv-series-number-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/444870/scripted-primetim... https://www.statista.com/statistics/187122/movie-releases-in-north-america-since-2001/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187122/movie-releases-in... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-original-content-spend-2023-growth-slow-ampere-1235359079/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/str... Total media industry content cash spend rose 14 percent to $134.6 billion in 2022 after a 25 percent jump to $118.4 billion in 2021, he noted, citing company reports and his firm’s estimates and analysis. For 2023, he forecast a 1 percent gain to $136.4 billion. Content spend in the coming years was likely to be “relatively flat or even decline,” he argued.
- electric_mayhem 3y ago
  ‘Content’ is what you get when bean counters and technologists commoditize our artistic output and cultural heritage. And the enshittified, ‘content-rich’ era is what you get when these same entities then proceed to churn out endless, mostly low-value and low-effort, variations on the existing themes. Oh boy, another reality show. Hey, look, yet another low budget third-rate superhero spinoff. Who cares if there’s ’more content than ever’ if 99% of it is unwatchable drek?

electric_mayhem 3y ago

Love the downvotes for bringing facts.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
- southernplaces7 3y ago
  Why not? Sometimes people downvoate a perfectly good, informative or interesting comment for completely stupid, bullshit cliquish reasons on HN and it absolutely deserves to be called out when it's obvious.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    I mean, the explanation is in the rule itself. Has anything magically changed overtime because someone doubled down and said "oh no I'm being attacked with downvotes!". Never saw it end positively on Reddit, never saw it end positively on HN. Also, it's all about the delivery. >Love the downvotes for bringing facts. just comes off as snark. If you really want to invite more nuanced responses to the clique, say so >I am open to rebuttals or corrections if I'm incorrect on something. replies matter so much more than points. That's why the points aren't public to begin with. So invite that instead of pseudo-begging for upvotes.

matwood 3y ago

Netflix disc had everything in a much smaller universe of content. The amount of money spent creating content over the last decade is staggering as is the number of shows/movies coming out. https://www.statista.com/statistics/444870/scripted-primetime-tv-series-number-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/444870/scripted-primetim... https://www.statista.com/statistics/187122/movie-releases-in-north-america-since-2001/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187122/movie-releases-in... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-original-content-spend-2023-growth-slow-ampere-1235359079/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/str... Total media industry content cash spend rose 14 percent to $134.6 billion in 2022 after a 25 percent jump to $118.4 billion in 2021, he noted, citing company reports and his firm’s estimates and analysis. For 2023, he forecast a 1 percent gain to $136.4 billion. Content spend in the coming years was likely to be “relatively flat or even decline,” he argued.

electric_mayhem 3y ago
‘Content’ is what you get when bean counters and technologists commoditize our artistic output and cultural heritage. And the enshittified, ‘content-rich’ era is what you get when these same entities then proceed to churn out endless, mostly low-value and low-effort, variations on the existing themes. Oh boy, another reality show. Hey, look, yet another low budget third-rate superhero spinoff. Who cares if there’s ’more content than ever’ if 99% of it is unwatchable drek?