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Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming
An anonymous reader writes: You may have heard of the recent launch of the new Daredevil TV show, and possibly the hit shows House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. They're all original programming from Netflix — the company that used to just mail DVDs to your door. But Netflix is now running a lot more than just those three shows — it has 320 hours of original programming planned for this year. This article discusses how Netflix is betting big on original, exclusive content, and what that means for the future of television. "Traditionally, television networks needed to stand for something to carve out an audience, he said, whereas the Internet allows brands to mean different things to different people because the service can be personalized for individual viewers. That means that for a conservative Christian family, Netflix should stand for wholesome entertainment, and, for a 20-year-old New York college student, it should be much more on the edge, he said.... 'We've had 80 years of linear TV, and it's been amazing, and in its day the fax machine was amazing,' he said. "The next 20 years will be this transformation from linear TV to Internet TV.'"
Trailer park boys last 2 seasons, thank you netflix!!!
Excellent shows, commercial free, on demand, released one season at a time. At the same time I have watched some networks take a 30 minute time slot show and reduce the actual show from around 21-22 minutes to 17-18 minutes, making more time for commercials. I'll sit on my couch with my potato chips and watch the demise of network TV with delight.
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Sorry if this offends comic fans, but Daredevil is meh. Reasonable plot/character development, interrupted by extended punchfests reminiscent of '60's Batman Pow! Blam! Zowie! kitsch.
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That were cancelled by idiot networks. Fringe, Dark Angel, etc.
So is everyone else. Amazon has publicly stated they don't want shows that are on other streaming services.
We've had 125 years of dumbass corporate executives thinking they knew something worth more than used toilet paper, and we're about to have another 125 years of the same.
It's not news.
An anonymous reader writes:
An anonymous spokesman says: ...he said.... 'We've had 80 years of linear TV, and it's been amazing, and in its day the fax machine was amazing,' he said...
TFA, TFA... oh! That would be Reed Hastings. Neat. Ah, stylistic memories of my 8th grade school paper.
House of Cards is a remake of a British TV series from the 90s. And this isn't the first Daredevil offering either.
Couldn't stand the weather
They're a company that wants to stay in business. TV's about as locked in as can be and even they're draining audiences in one form or another. The internet is an amazing levelling field, and even if terrestrial TV packed up and quit tomorrow, there'd be no firm reason NetFlix alone would dominate the internet markets. They're playing the same game by locking up good content behuind their platform so that if/when the sh hits the fan, they'll have something to keep loyal customers paying well for their services.
Bye!
Since when? How? Sign me up!
If broadcast TV were to die to internet TV, we would be left with content for the ones that can afford it and nothing for the ones who can't. Whether it's money sucking subscription or budget paid advertising internet video, both will use some sort of restrictive, closed source key management system that's only available to a select group of devices. At least broadcast TV doesn't do DRM!!! If people don't like broadcast shows being cancelled then they should do something to fix the monopoly ratings system.
NetFlix is wonderful. Every dog has its day and back when theaters were being crushed by cable and over the air stations were dropping like flies the cable industry could have cared less. Now cable TV is in serious trouble with no way to fight back except the one very obvious way. NetFlix delivers a ton of entertainment for $8. per month. Hint to cable : Deliver more for $8 than Netflix instead of charging hundreds per month.
It's probably a good thing that companies like Netflix are making good original programming, but I've noticed that their catalog of classic films has shrunk significantly.
What I really want is a service like Netflix that is more Spotify-like, with an enormous catalog of old films, classic foreign films, art films, shorts, animation, etc.
I guess the fact that copyright trolls are scrambling to take old movies out of the public domain and congress has seen fit to extend copyright to ridiculous lengths makes that a problem. So even though I subscribe to Netflix, I find myself looking to torrent sites and the Internet Archive to scratch my film noir, King Vidor, Vittorio De Sica and Busby Berkely itch. Because sometimes Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve in "The April Fools" or Lee J Cobb in John Boorman's "Point Blank" is just what the movie doctor ordered. Sometimes, a creepy-as-hell Richard Widmark in the 1953 Sam Fuller classic, "Pickup on South Street" is preferable to watching Ryan Gosling try to create an expression on his face.
Hell, a little while ago, I just wanted to sit back and enjoy the 1973 blaxploitation classic, "The Mack" and learned that Netflix doesn't have it available for streaming (but you can get a DVD if you still use that legacy format). I mean, what the fuck. Who's gonna mess with physical media and snail mail just to watch a movie? Not only that, but they don't carry "Trouble Man" at all, and that has one of the greatest soundtracks ever by Curtis Mayfield.
In case you aren't familiar with cinematic masterpiece "The Mack", here's the scene where Goldy and Pretty Tony face off. Check the very young Richard Pryor: https://youtu.be/sdR_t5nsZqI
I'm spoiled because back in my university days, I worked as a projectionist at a revival house for seven years and got the most thorough education in film history one could ever hope for. But some of you younger folks might not know what came before The Avengers and Fast and Furious 7, and that makes me sad. Hell, the 1970s were a veritable golden age for independent films and hardly anybody gets to see those movies today. Even the "classic movie" channels on cable only play the same top forty old movies over and over again, never digging deep into back catalogs. There is so much cinema to be discovered. Don't fear the black and white or silent.
You are welcome on my lawn.
...when you can have your customer pulling the freight on maintaining the infrastructure through their ISP as we do today. When net neutrality splits the Comcast network from the Comcast/NBC/Universal content, and Netflix has to compete for bandwidth on a level playing field, the money to create original content is going to dry up quickly.
I do however have an issue with paying a service to stream TV and still having to watch ads.
Would you prefer a choice between Hulu Plus with ads at $10 per month and ad-free Hulu Plus Plus at $30 per month? Because the operators of these services would argue that only the combination of ad revenue and subscription revenue is enough to pay the royalty bills.
the only TV I watch anymore is Netflix and Amazon.
That's fine for people who don't watch live political news (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN) or live sports. Because the leagues still sell exclusive rights to particular matches to traditional TV networks, the leagues' streaming subscription services black out any match shown on broadcast, cable, or satellite TV in your area
Is "Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye in the same way that "Blurred Lines" is by Marvin Gaye?
Do you really want 6 different boxes / accountants to get 6 different shows? this sounds a little like the old C-band days before the videochiper ii.
Is it wrong if, for a moment there, I was expecting a discussion based on a custom programming language or something?
I need to take a vacation.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
You want my credit card number? Just convince Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon to have a netflix-exclusive video lovechild. Boom. Done. Don't need to know anything about it. Do this, and I'm sold.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Makes sense with other streaming businesses starting up they need to provide something that others doesn't have. That could be exclusive content from outside party which will get prohibitively more expensive as more bidders come on board or create original content they own. Another bonus with owning original content is that they can use them as bargaining chips to get more content. Netflix chooses a distributor for their content in other channels in exchange for access to that distributor's content on Netflix.
Who the fuck cares about people who believe their fairy tales should be the standard by which everyone exists? They are a dying category of person.
Even most people who claim to be Christian really aren't. The only difference is they lie to themselves in order to feel like they have some moral high ground while they do all the same crap everyone else does.
When I read the headline, my first thought was that it was some new programming paradigm. Horrific visions of pundits at the EPcon briefly formed and then vaporized as I realized the phrase had a different meaning.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
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What's the value of a brand if it means something else to everyone? It would become a non-brand like "water", that's something else to each one, too. Or if "CocaCola" suddenly to some one would mean "orange juice".
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I'm poor as fuck, so piracy is my route. Private trackers are superior in about every way: ...))
* Free (but you are encouraged to donate a small amount, e.g. 5 bucks)
* No ads
* No DRM
* Lots of content (Netflix has about 10,000 - 20,000 titles? There's a movie tracker that has 113,000 movies and a TV tracker with 20,000 series - all neatly indexed and searchable (e.g. by actor, genre,
* Excellent support (volunteer staff is very quick and friendly)
Only downside is that you can't stream (it uses Bittorrent), but download speeds are about as fast as your connection can handle.
You don't even need a super-fast connection, I'm seeding everything from my home.
It's not that hard to get invited if you're willing to put in a bit of effort.
She who tore down the false idols of our parents! The once high Blockbuster is no more, as are its lesser brethren, Hollywood Video and countless Independent Video Stores. But She is not satisfied with cutting off convenient access to movies that cater to secondary demographics, oh no! She, having thrown off the mighty temptations of the Qwikster, now seeks to recreate network television in Her own image! Watch any program you like... but displease her, and you will be forced to face the Premium Service! And there are no other gods to hear your prayers.
Netflix is awesome for stirring up the system, but I don't get the hype about DareDevil... and i like a bit of action, I just thought it was overall shit, wouldn't watch any more even if it was free.
I can imagine it being popular with children, but then it is a comic book hero, maybe i shouldn't have expected more from a live action comic book hero... Or maybe i just wanted something original, dark and unusual with at least half decent acting like Dexter instead of rehashed shit.
Or you know, you could *actually DO* sports instead of standing in front of a light box and shout at picture of sportsmen.
Common, we're ./ here. We're notoriously sociopathic. We don't have the needs to root for a team or other such pointless ritual to reinforce social identity.
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I can't imagine watching news when I can read so much faster and from so many more sources.
Can you read a wide variety of sources while doing other housework? Because that's what my roommate ends up doing. She plugs cordless headphones into the TV's audio out, puts on MSNBC or C-SPAN, and listens to the talking heads while doing housework in another room.
After all, netflix manages to offer ad-free stuff for $8/month, same as Hulu+.
It also gets the ad-free stuff months or years later (except for its own productions), when licensors are willing to license the works at a rate acceptable to Netflix.
If you want to see Netflix's shows, you have to sign up, but it's not nearly as expensive as a cable package + HBO.
Likewise, if you currently subscribe to only cable TV and not wired Internet, Netflix is expensive because you have to add cable Internet to your package.
Who needs 6 different boxes? I have a Roku box connected to my TV. With it, I access Netflix, Amazon (both Prime and VOD), Hulu Plus, Google Play, and various other services. I can switch between services effortlessly.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
How does exclusive programming compare to extreme programming and functional programming?
sudo ergo sum
and, for a 20-year-old New York college student, it should be all tits
I'm sure that's what they meant to say.
My Roku has no problem handling Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and HBOgo. Why do I need a separate box for each service?
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
And if there are multiple providers each with "hit shows" someone might want to bundle them all together so they can negotiate the licensing rights in bulk and let people get everything at a reasonable rate.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
I want more shows like Rake (the Australian version), The Fall (UK), and Wire in the Blood.
There's already plenty of sweetness and light and pre-digested pap for the masses who only want something to fill their mind between stuffing their faces and going to bed.
One of the draws of network television was if I sorta liked a show, I would 'make time' to watch it when it came on. Especially back in the old days when if you missed a show you had to wait months to see it again on reruns. It was easy to sit in a chair at 7pm and watch whatever shows were one. Even more compelling if they had a story-line that required seeing every episode. I remember making time to watch every episode of Heroes (the first season only) and Babylon 5.
Now that so many shows are streaming, I find that I'm more likely to pick up my tablet and go outside and read. I can always catch a show later if I really want to.
And I find that I rarely really want to. There are a few shows that I watch regularly. And a whole lot that, because they are on Netflix or Hulu, I would like to watch. But I'm really tired of ads and if a show isn't all that good (which most aren't), I find myself more and more just reading. Or playing games on my tablet. Or watching YouTube videos.
Some of my friends just go on and on about their favorite shows and how I should watch them. I'm finding that it just isn't that much a part of my life anymore. I'm getting really tired of paying for satellite and Hulu and Netflix and if my wife didn't watch them, I'd cancel the lot. I've tried to convince her we don't need satellite, but there are about 5 channels that we do watch and she isn't willing to give that up.
Thank you Internet Netflix, and Hulu for encouraging me to read me. And thank you Chromecast for giving me all kinds of free stuff to watch when I do want to.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I use XM Radio @ $5/month for audio access to all the live political and news TV shows you mention. I don't get to "watch" them, but I get to listen to them on my daily commute. Occasionally they reference a video or an image they are displaying, but 95% of the time, I don't feel like I'm missing anything with just the audio.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
Would of been better if Netflix dropped all TV shows including originals in favor of spending more money on streaming quality A+ movies and just leave hulu service with the TV Shows. TV shows tend to get boring overtime(running out of stories) but with movies you end up watching them over and over again.
I take issue with the idea that conservative entertainment is inherently any more "wholesome" than any other. Conservatives aren't the authority on morals, at least not the sole authority, as much as they would like us to believe that they are.
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The decades long crap-opoly that the TV networks have enjoyed is crumbling down before them. Netflix IS the future of TV. The networks know this. But like every other monopoly they are trapped by their business model. If they try to pivot towards the streaming trend they risk losing revenue from their current business model. CEO's, and shareholders, are rewarded based on current earnings. CEO's, despite what they might say, are concerned about this quarter not what is happening 5 years from now. If they fail to deliver THIS QUARTER they are out on their ass. So they continue to milk the monopoly cow and let someone else deal with 5 years from now.
The only real remedy they have is the court system. They will litigate and litigate and litigate until the little guy gives up.
But Netflix isn't going to give up. Even after the shakedown from Verizon (forced to pay up so that Verizon won't slow them down) they are still doing fine. The original content is brilliant - right out of the HBO playbook. And you know what? Their original programming is excellent. I think that House Of Cards is the best show on TV. That alone is worth the $9 a month.
Compared to what the networks charge per month a Netflix membership is an absolute steal. Not only do they have excellent choices but it is geared towards what I want to watch, not the slop served up by network TV.
What's a DVD?
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So if you want to watrch these you've got to sign up for Netflix, for others you've gtot to sign up with Amazon, and it'll be the same for other companies.
Welcome to the future of unbundled channels where you've got to subscribe to multiple companies to get the pogrammes.
The major networks don't make many big hot shows anymore.. It's a vast sea of low cost reality TV crap with a few good shows in the mix..
HBO, Showtime and Netflix have stepped in to fill a void the major networks left plus they control the copyrights, content and distribution..
HBO and showtime learned years ago that producing edgy shows that go beyond what the FCC allows for broadcast TV pulls in and keeps subscribers.
Netflix is just following that successful model.
Lets face it.. Orange is the new black wouldn't be half of what it is edited for broadcast TV.
The new twist netflix offers is binge watching a whole season at one time.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. --Red Adair
Anyone that gets a Netflix subscription already had internet & on the outside chance someone fell into the 'I got internet for Netflix' category, The internet can be used for a darn sight more than cable TV can be used for.
There's a difference between having an Internet connection at all and having an Internet connection sufficient for sustained Netflix use. A lot of Internet providers, especially satellite and cellular, impose data transfer quotas of 5 to 10 GB per month.
I'm a Netflix customer and it's worth the money. However, despite spending millions of dollars improving their search feature, it still stinks. Predictive algorithms can only do so much. And let me completely wipe out certain shows/genres from my display. I'm really not interested in texas chainsaw massacre or anything like it.
Fax machines have always sucked. Even in their day.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
It's funny. Now that I can watch anything I want to, I no longer care. It feels like a chore.
Your saying 247 million Americans don't matter
Don't confuse being raised going to church with actually believing that bullshit. Very few people actually believe in an invisible friend with magical powers.
And of even that small number I'd doubt many are TRULY devout. For instance; the Rapture already happened and no one noticed..
I was under the impression that a lot of the channels you mentioned had moved to an "authentication" mechanism similar to HBO Go. If your cable modem's IP lease is associated with an account that also subscribes to cable TV, you can watch. Otherwise, you need to use your Roku device's remote control to key in credentials issued by your participating cable or satellite TV provider. C-SPAN, for example, has announced a move to a model with clips for everyone and live video only for authenticated cable TV subscribers.