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So when they say "Consumers", it should really have been "Netflix Customers", as for everyone else there is less choice, only already paying Netflix users get m

So when they say "Consumers", it should really have been "Netflix Customers", as for everyone else there is less choice, only already paying Netflix users get more content.

nottorp 11mo ago
Already paying Netflix users will get to either agree with a price increase or leave :) After all, there is more "content" now.
- weird-eye-issue 11mo ago
  I'd really prefer better quality over quantity. Everything just feels like slop now and I find myself mostly only enjoying older movies. I find it's incredibly rare when I can actually find something half decent that's new on Netflix. Edit: Btw I find Max is like a better quality version of Netflix. But after a while I have the same problem there too. I find myself just watching something on YouTube instead most times
  - lynx97 11mo ago
    I cancelled my NetFlix subscription already, what, 7 years ago, for that reason... However, it is not just NetFlix. Most newish movies don't do anything for me. I prefer a movie from the 90s (or even earlier) over almost anything produced in the last 5 to 10 years. It is likely a generational thing, and a case of old man yelling at clouds. If studios think effects are more important then the actual story, well then, so be it.
    - nottorp 11mo ago
      May be that our tolerance for samey bullshit reduces with age. After all, we’ve seen it all before. The movie industry isn’t that imaginative. Also, survivor bias. You have to go out of the way to find mentions of crap 3rd rate old movies. We only remember the good ones.
      - bombcar 11mo ago
        It’s fun to pick a year and do a deep dive on everything that was released to theaters (old newspapers with movie times are great for this) - so much crap you never heard about, unless it was phenomenally bad.
        nottorp 11mo ago
        Speaking of which, I recently ran into scans of some local magazines from the 30s. There was a cinema magazine, and i ran into a 6 page obituary for this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney Some silent movie star. Never heard of him before. Looks like he was worth 1/8 of the non-ad content 1 year after his death in 1931.
- loloquwowndueo 11mo ago
  There’s even more content on “gentlemen of fortune”-type sites. Just saying.
  - nottorp 11mo ago
    That’s their competition. I wonder if they realize it. > I find it's incredibly rare when I can actually find something half decent that's new on Netflix. There was recently some link on HN about Netflix and using “AI” for “content creation”. Not that Netflix scripts didn’t sound like an “AI” wrote them even before “AI”.
- nottorp 11mo ago
  Wait I just realized Warner is hbo. Means now im paying netflix two times.
swiftcoder 11mo ago
... don't paying Netflix customers already have access to the whole HBO back-catalogue?
- redeux 11mo ago
  As a Netflix subscriber, that would be news to me.
  - swiftcoder 11mo ago
    I see it's only a limited selection. I have Band of Brothers, Ballers, and various other HBO shows in my Netflix account.
- arlcode 11mo ago
  Not here (Germany). HBO isn't available at all on it's own. It's exclusively sublicensed (until the end of this year) to Sky which has a terrible terrible user experience and of course is another subscription. Two days ago there was an announcement that HBO Max is to start in Germany in January. Let's see how that develops after the acquisition.

So when they say "Consumers", it should really have been "Netflix Customers", as for everyone else there is less choice, only already paying Netflix users get more content.

nottorp 11mo ago

Already paying Netflix users will get to either agree with a price increase or leave :) After all, there is more "content" now.

weird-eye-issue 11mo ago
I'd really prefer better quality over quantity. Everything just feels like slop now and I find myself mostly only enjoying older movies. I find it's incredibly rare when I can actually find something half decent that's new on Netflix. Edit: Btw I find Max is like a better quality version of Netflix. But after a while I have the same problem there too. I find myself just watching something on YouTube instead most times
- lynx97 11mo ago
  I cancelled my NetFlix subscription already, what, 7 years ago, for that reason... However, it is not just NetFlix. Most newish movies don't do anything for me. I prefer a movie from the 90s (or even earlier) over almost anything produced in the last 5 to 10 years. It is likely a generational thing, and a case of old man yelling at clouds. If studios think effects are more important then the actual story, well then, so be it.
  - nottorp 11mo ago
    May be that our tolerance for samey bullshit reduces with age. After all, we’ve seen it all before. The movie industry isn’t that imaginative. Also, survivor bias. You have to go out of the way to find mentions of crap 3rd rate old movies. We only remember the good ones.
    - bombcar 11mo ago
      It’s fun to pick a year and do a deep dive on everything that was released to theaters (old newspapers with movie times are great for this) - so much crap you never heard about, unless it was phenomenally bad.
      - nottorp 11mo ago
        Speaking of which, I recently ran into scans of some local magazines from the 30s. There was a cinema magazine, and i ran into a 6 page obituary for this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney Some silent movie star. Never heard of him before. Looks like he was worth 1/8 of the non-ad content 1 year after his death in 1931.
loloquwowndueo 11mo ago
There’s even more content on “gentlemen of fortune”-type sites. Just saying.
- nottorp 11mo ago
  That’s their competition. I wonder if they realize it. > I find it's incredibly rare when I can actually find something half decent that's new on Netflix. There was recently some link on HN about Netflix and using “AI” for “content creation”. Not that Netflix scripts didn’t sound like an “AI” wrote them even before “AI”.
nottorp 11mo ago
Wait I just realized Warner is hbo. Means now im paying netflix two times.

swiftcoder 11mo ago

... don't paying Netflix customers already have access to the whole HBO back-catalogue?

redeux 11mo ago
As a Netflix subscriber, that would be news to me.
- swiftcoder 11mo ago
  I see it's only a limited selection. I have Band of Brothers, Ballers, and various other HBO shows in my Netflix account.
arlcode 11mo ago
Not here (Germany). HBO isn't available at all on it's own. It's exclusively sublicensed (until the end of this year) to Sky which has a terrible terrible user experience and of course is another subscription. Two days ago there was an announcement that HBO Max is to start in Germany in January. Let's see how that develops after the acquisition.