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Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel
An anonymous reader writes: Netflix revealed in a blog post that it will not renew its contract with Epix, meaning you won't be able to watch movies like The Hunger Games and World War Z through the service anymore. With the increase in cord-cutters and more original content, Netflix is positioning itself to be like any other TV channel (one that owns its own distribution model) and is betting that customers won't miss the Epix content. Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says, "While many of these movies are popular, they are also widely available on cable and other subscription platforms at the same time as they are on Netflix and subject to the same drawn out licensing periods."
rather than offer a reliable download and buffer model, so this might be good news in the long run. I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix. It sucks that this area is missing out on so much since we have such slow connections. Even though my 160 kbps connection is so slow, I can still spend a few days downloading a movie to watch. That is what I really want. Hopefully dropping Epix opens Netflix up to a lot more potential non-streaming customers.
I want something that allows me to watch movies and/or episode-based content AS *I* want.
Their offerings of content have continued to get slimmer in the recent couple of years. And I'm finding myself using them less and less.
If Netflix stops delivering that content altogether, I stop subscribing.
And, if we start seeing ADS attached to the content, I'm fucking outta there so fast the wind of my passing will bowl you over.
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"While many of these movies are popular, they are also widely available on cable and other subscription platforms at the same time as they are on Netflix and subject to the same drawn out licensing periods."
The reason we can be cord cutters is because we get netflix, so you're suggesting I go back to doing both? %#!# you. #@# you very much.
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Netflix is such a bargain that it just might replace my cable . Netflix has great programming and costs me about 3% of what I pay Comcast every month.
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Seriously 160 kbps connection? Dude, you need to subscribe to the "We will mail you the disk" part of Netflix and just forget this video streaming idea. Trust me, they can turn a disk around in the mail faster than you can download the movie..
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Looks like the netflix dvd model is coming around to be in vogue again.
> Seattle...160 kbps
That isn't too bad. You can download a 700 Mbyte movie in only ten hours. With my 56k modem (because stupid Comcast despite having the government-granted monopoly over most of Seattle, still doesn't offer service to their entire monopoly area), I can download that in 30 hours. That's not too bad. I can leave the download running while I'm at work and at night and then have two movies to watch over the weekend. I really do hope they add a download option.
What people want from a streaming service is every movie, every TV episode, and every piece of music ever made at any any point in history, anywhere in the world, at a modest fee.
Netflix certainly wasn't that, but it was trying to be. If it's going to stop even trying, then they're just driving people back to BitTorrent. Because that's what BitTorrent is, and it's free.
Until people are given what they want at a fair price, they will continue to find it elsewhere.
How is it a tech hub like Seattle doesn't have broadband fast enough for Netflix, yet I'm living in rural Virginia and it works just great for me? What the hell is going on in Seattle?
Taking away popular movie titles is only going to give your competitors an in. I didn't have to go see films at the theatre if I didn't want. It would end up on Netflix. I didn't need Comcast, it would end up Netflix.
Simply put, if things stop coming to Netflix, so will the viewers. We aren't locked in to 2 year contracts, so we can come and go as we please. Maybe, Netflix, you should continue to court us.
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That's a blessing. This is the most pathetic series ever devised. It's not that it is a product aimed at teenagers - rather, it is a product aimed at braindead teenagers.
I'll paraphrase, but here's basically what they said:
"Yes, we're losing MGM's movies - but soon we're going to give you a new Bill Murray Christmas movie! We think everyone can see how much better that is."
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Netflix is becoming little better than my cable company
Republicans that hate us and want us to die run Seattle. Sub-broadband speeds are a defining trait of their kind.
The entertainment industry dictating all sorts of crazy shit makes Netflix suck. Everything from DRM to licensing windows for different areas, a lack of content in certain countries, no existence in others, and more. Not to mention proprietary software, limited devices support, etc.
Now compare this to something like vidics.ch which is presumably unlicensed where a user can go and get pretty much anything Netflix has and more. No restrictions on devices, where one is surfing from, or other nuisances.
I think the time has come to just eliminate copyright altogether. It's creating a violent world for those who *don't* comply with arbitrary restrictions on there communications. In a world where censorship rules we can not have a functioning democracy. Democracy lives because we have the freedom to communicate. Unfortunately copyright and think of the children-style laws have eliminated the right of people to think and say and communicate.
Copyright is a monopoly and in any other business that would be illegal. The idea for it being legal is it is *limited* (which was 7 years, but now is for all intensive purpose forever and a day) and benefit to society at large. If society is being persecuted (which it is) then we have a bigger problem than the one which a copyright monopoly was suppose to solve. The people have clearly voted copyright monopoly out the window- but the law isn't recognizing the peoples vote. That says a lot about our democracies and whos actually in power. It's not the people. It's a select minority who benefit from a draconian system.
I live in Seattle
LOL.
I live within walking distance of actual livestock and real, operating farms, twenty minutes way from a metropolitan area, and I have 60 Mbps business class service. The fact that Seattle, WA is still a broadband desert is so damning it defies belief. Whatever the fuck it is you Seattle knuckleheads have done to yourselves to end up like this....... all I can say is; you deserve it. You really do.
You've governed yourself into a permanent Internet backwater. Congratulations. Go rename your volcano Mt. Talolhowakaji or whatever the 'natives' are demanding.
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There are plenty of other streaming options out there, so why should I pay for Netflix when they're reducing content I want and adding content I have no interest in?
The cat5 cord that allows me to watch Netflix, that is. The ui is increasingly horrific; the catalog of content continually underwhelming. Yes, yes, licensing - shit, I'd pay three times as much if they actually had more than one thing I wanted to watch every three months.
YouTube, of all places, is where I end up more often. Movies if you know where to look, and documentaries that would make even Ken Friggen Burns smile.
(Proper credit; the availability of Ken Burns' stuff is a point in netflix's favor but man cannot watch The West alone.)
They first marginalized the DVD rental service and now are doing the same with movie streaming. While I watched some of Netflix originals, HBO Now has even more and better original series. The value of Netflix subscription for me is access to movies and shows from major studios. Guess I should look into Amazon Prime instead. Not interested in paying for Hulu and still watching ads.
Yea, Republicans run Seattle, they run Washington state too.... NOT...
I live in on of the most conservative cities in the country and get 60Mbps. And why should that have anything to do with it?
Doesn't Netflix regularly let one content contract lapse and pick up a different one for different content? How is this different?
I subscribed due to the vast choice of films on DVD available. I've stuck around so far because there are maybe a couple dozen streamed movies/series I've yet to watch that I expect to enjoy. The rate at which new streaming movies appears is dismal, and the rate at which stuff I wanted to see but it's now gone is too high. "Narrowing their focus" will end up losing subscribers like me. The last thing I want is YATVC. Less popular and obscure movies on DVD keep disappearing from their catalog, so that's going downhill as well, even if I could just go with DVDs.
Interestingly enough, Roku is building a search engine for content availabe on the platform. Some channels are PPV, which isn't so bad if you can find what you really want to see. Some channels are free, and some older movies are on those free channels. As usual, what some of us really want is just a fairly convenient way to find and get what we want and a reasonable price. If Netflix abandons that, they'll lose some customers.
I really do think hell would freeze over before a republican would take office in any office that governs Seattle.
Besides, if that was the case, then I wouldn't have gig service right now where I live in Arizona, which is about as much of a red state as you can get. In fact, come to think of it, a lot of red states have gig service somewhere within the state, such as Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Louisiana.
Back to piracy it is.
I just now ran a speed-test against SoftLayer's Datacenter in Seattle, from my office in Austin -- 93Mbps up and down. No doubt only limited by the crappy D-Link hub on my desk.
Obviously there are fast networks in Seattle -- perhaps the GP needs to pay more (or upgrade to a "business" class line)?
Today's media consumer wants what it wants, when it wants it, right then. This is opposite traditional cable company methodologies. It's why customer's are cutting the cord. To that end, the first service to offer the best selection will win (pricing models aside). If it takes multiple overlapping subscriptions to get the selection, customers will be forced to pick and choose or to go back to pirating. The stuff frequently pirated are the things that customers can't afford (multiple services), can't find (selection problems), or are going to have going 24/7 (kids shows and bandwidth caps). I don't blame netflix entirely though. It's a business decision to keep from raising rates. The real problem lies with the distribution points arguing unreasonable amounts of money for potentially exclusive contracts with providers like Netflix/Hulu/AmazonPrime/CrunchyRoll/etc.
It's just the city of Seattle that's screwed up. The suburbs actually outside the city itself (where I live, and where MS is located) has FIOS broadly deployed. My understanding is that it has to do with Seattle's own rules - there's a huge amount of entrenched bureaucracy and crappy infrastructure in place that essentially prevents competitors from coming in and upgrading. Naturally, large businesses (like Amazon) can simply bypass the mess with commercial-grade connections. It's apparently just the consumers that have it bad.
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netfix that you speak of?
Because that gives me access on Netflix to every movie ever made, plus a substantial number of TV series both domestic and foreign. Netflix seems to have invested heavily in the "everybody's gonna stream" meme, a dream which crashed into ISP user caps and Hollywood footdragging. That's why the streaming servers offer a stunted collection of movies that "expire" after a year or so. So now that Netflix is set up for large-scale streaming, developing its own content to deliver is a logical next step.
Look at the new and leaving content for this month - it's almost all junk (with slightly more quality stuff leaving than coming).
Netflix is still showing me "New Episodes" for stuff I watched 6 months ago. A friend of mine said recently, "I spend more time looking for something to watch on Netflix than I do watching Netflix".
I just started requesting DVD's again from Netflix (send back the first one in two years yesterday) and my kids watch YouTube all the time anyway - I'm pretty sure there's no reason for me to keep the streaming service at this point. I wonder if I can cancel that separately. I still have 300 discs in my DVD queue and feel silly for trying to use the Internet instead of USPS for digital content.
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> The suburbs actually outside the city itself (where I live, and where MS is located) has FIOS broadly deployed
But, that is only in very limited areas. IIRC, FiOS hasn't added a single new building in over five years. I live in downtown Bellevue near the corner of Main St and 108th, and I only have 576 kbps DSL with CenturyLink. Comcast has been at capacity on my block since I moved here 8.5 years ago so I can't get cable TV or Internet. You're very luck to be able to get faster than 1.5 Mbps access in this area.
As someone that has been active in Seattle politics for over thirty years, yes the Republicans have a pretty strong hold over this city. So while the candidates don't have an R by their name, they're all DINOs. Even the so-called socialist here is a big business Republican. I'm pretty centrist, but she is so far right-wing that she makes me look like a communist. She is a Republican for all intents and purposes. It is the Republicans that are anti-technology and won't allow us to have Internet access.
Correct, Verizon actually stopped further rollouts prior to selling the network to Frontier, who has also opted not to expand it.
On the plus side (for you), the chances of Comcast expanding capacity in Bellevue is far better than other suburbs.
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Here in the distant rural reaches of northern Arizona, I'm getting 80M down/8M up, and there are three competing providers. Anybody who would run a software development operation in the Seattle suburbs would have to be crazy.
> Seattle...160 kbps
That isn't too bad. You can download a 700 Mbyte movie in only ten hours. With my 56k modem (because stupid Comcast despite having the government-granted monopoly over most of Seattle, still doesn't offer service to their entire monopoly area), I can download that in 30 hours. That's not too bad. I can leave the download running while I'm at work and at night and then have two movies to watch over the weekend. I really do hope they add a download option.
So a DVD will take 10 hours and a Blu-Ray will take days to get... Go with the Netflix disk delivery option and it takes about three days to turn around ANY title they have, which is just about any title you could want, plus you can save that internet connection for something else, like browsing Zillo for houses OUTSIDE of Seattle that you can afford...
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I started with Netflix back when they used to mail me DVDs. It was a better deal for me than the ludicrous rental fees from the likes of Blockbuster. Of course Blockbuster went bankrupt. Now I can only watch a few not-so-great movies and the plethora of TV shows that Netflix provides. I miss being able to watch decent movies on demand. Can someone please start up a national chain of DVD rental stores again?
You can't even get cable? Plain old cable tee vee? What the actual fuck?
I had cable in an 80 year old house outside Detroit in 1983. 32 years ago.
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I really do think hell would freeze over before a republican would take office in any office that governs Seattle.
The problem is that the people we do elect here are Republicans in all but name. They are in bed with corporations to screw us. Comcast has the monopoly over most of the city, but they don't offer service to the poorer areas and have sparse coverage in many other parts of the city. CenturyLink can't offer DSL to much of the city due to the age of the phone wiring, and the city hasn't forced them to upgrade. Also, the conservative "director's rules" here that don't allow corporations to invest in upgrades are to the corporation's benefit since they don't have to spend money. Internet access here is such a joke because of our conservative rulers.
What kind of idiots do they have running things over there?
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and Netflix was okay for a little while but eventually i lost interest because of the selections seems to never rotate to different movies, sure they add a few new ones but not a lot and after a while it got to be like HBO, just another premium channel with the same old crap after a while, so i cancelled it and just threw the roku hardware in a old shoe box saving it for my grand yard sale when i finally decide to move to a smaller house
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I don't think you are centrist in reality. You want to be considered in the middle so you label yourself centrist, but in reality you really are far left, so everybody looks to far to the right from your prospective.
Seattle is governed by the fully left of center, so is Washington state to a lesser degree. You just see it as too far right because in reality you have a leftist ideology and are nowhere near the center on just about everything.
Be honest with yourself, you are really far left of what the center really is... Which is fine with me as long as you are honest about it...
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Uhh, Comcast, CenturyLink, and other corporations give a lot of money to local politicians. That by definition makes them Republicans. Republicans are the ones standing with corporations against the people. If they weren't Republicans, then why do they not allow us to have good Internet access? They're allowing the corporations to not invest in infrastructure and are protecting their monopolies at gun point. That is very right-wing. Very. How can you claim otherwise, unless you're on the side of Comcast that is literally stuffing dumptruck loads of cash into their executive's pockets. Are you making a profit from Comcast? Is that why you are such a corporatist that you hate the people?
Most people on here obviously did not read the blog post. Netflix is only dropping distrbution from Epix, but they are making many new deals for movies. The whole streaming films on demand feature is not going away.
"...won't be able to watch movies like The Hunger Games and World War Z"... "betting that customers won't miss the Epix content. "
Yeah, not with examples like those I won't...
The laws were written to give property owners control over the right-of-way on their property. 60% of affected landowners must approve any installation into the right-of-way. Good luck finding absentee landlords (probably somewhere in China) in areas where everyone rents.
BTW, which "la-la land" grown-ups are you going to vote for in order to come and take away your property rights?
I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix.
Heck I live in Panama. No not Panama City, Florida. Panama the country with the canal, all the way down in Latin America. And I have the bandwidth (20Mbs) to stream Netflix, through a US VPN. So someone in your city is screwing you.
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160Kbps? Geez, I get 30Mbps from my T-Mobile LTE.
It is because the studios asked them for a monetary number well outside Netflix's ability to pay and still stay afloat. The studios are doing it on purpose to tank Netflix because they don't like their business model and would prefer you go buy the DVD. And, because they feel they deserve the extra money. Netflix has been a real threat to them, because it has always provided viewers the ability to watch as much as they want for a reasonable fee. I don't envy them. Producers of entertainment are so toxic with their licensing deals that it almost doesn't pay to be in the media delivery business. Dish is always struggling with this as well, it is painful for them and their customers.
You are very lucky. I live in a suburb of Phoenix that is only served by Centurylink (no cable TV available). On a good day I can see 1.2 meg down speed and it's costing me over $60/month. Centurylink has been promising to upgrade soon (within 2 months) for the last five years.
I think you're confusing Republicans with politicians in general.
When Netflix gave up it's deal with starz people thought that it was the end. Now Netflix is giving up Epix and people think it's the end again. Netflix still has a lot of content, and will possibly even sign a new content deal. They've long said they intend to rotate through content providers.
Most folks just binge watch TV episodes on netflix. The movies are added value, but there's no way they could be worth the cost. At that point you just get the DVD. If it's worth enough to cancel over it's worth waiting a few days for the dvd to arrive...
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What happened is that Qwest sold their cellular network probably 15 years ago and as a result they didn't have that cash cow that a lot of other ISPs had. We also have Comcast, but the service is capped and when we switched to DSL it was out 3-4 hours every day for about a month.
Since CenturyLink came to town, I started seeing a lot more of their trucks all over the places fixing the infrastructure. The FTTH hasn't been set up yet, but it's been installed on our end and I'd imagine they'll have it hooked up as soon as possible.
So, no, it's not a matter of governance, back in 2005 when the city requested an explanation for the lack of improvement, Comcast refused to comment and Qwest claimed to be in preparation to do it. I'm not sure why CenturyLink decided to actually go forward with it, but probably because this was the best place for the regional headquarters and it would be embarassing to lack decent high speed internet in the same city as the regional headquarters.
By definition? What definition? The one you just pulled out of your ass?
Both parties take money from industry. Quit painting it as a party line issue. It's not.
We're talking about residential broadband connections, not optical carrier lines that cost thousands per month.
Good, WWZ was one of the most disappointing book-to-screen adaptations I've ever seen. I've seen over 200 zombie movies, and if I hadn't read the book first I wouldn't have cared BUT...yeah.
You can download a 700 Mbyte movie in only ten hours.
Jesus. 2002 called and it wants its 360p AVI back. What on ${DIETY}'s green earth you watching in 2015 that's only 700 MB? Any move at decent resolution (1080p and higher) is going to be at least 2 GB...more like 5 GB if you want the actual detail.
For years we were told that people wouldn't leave cable because..."what will they watch? what will they do if they don't watch as much TV" ?
And guess what, cord cutters found that while they did end up watching less TV (less crap, less watching for the sake of watching, less 'background" TV and such) their experience was better. And those cord-cutters, like me long ago, don't miss cable.
Same thing is happening with Netflix....I've sort of burned through the quality streaming stuff, now I'm watching mediocre stuff, just for the sake of watching. I can see myself dropping Netflix streaming and being fine without it...Lesson is there are lots of things to do other than watch television.
I don't think democrat means what you think it means. Obama himself is bought and paid for by hollywood.
They are in bed with corporations to screw us.
Those are called Democrats.
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Netflix's advantage is that it has accurate statistics behind such decisions. Too few people must watch these movies to make the deal worthwhile.
Its that simple
somehow missing the starvation games and the zombies does not register as a great negative.
I would rank them somewhat below watch the old indian head test pattern.
If my son wasn't so enthralled with Netflix for TV series I would have cancelled it when I realized HBO Now included movies, too. Good movies for the most part, too, not just 3 movies and a bunch of crap shot on an iPhone by the college kids down the block.
I can get most of that crap from Amazon Instant which is part of Prime anyway and prime is worth it for the shopping alone.
If the landowners are absentee and living in China, what happens when you stop paying rent? Don't the landlords need to actually apply to the local court to start eviction proceedings? If they have some local agent to do that, why can't the local agent approve broadband installation?
He is confusing terms a bit here, but the previous poster was calling him a leftist. A true leftist does not favor corporations having the kind of power or influence that he describes, that's a hallmark of the right wing, so it's reasonable for him to call them Republicans, which is a far-right party. Yes, in most areas the Democrats are also center-right, but that party does claim to answer to the people on the left, even if it is just lip service.
A popular meme on the internet just begs to be quoted here, "Netflix is like a fridge full of food that I don't want to eat".
Arizona's not *that* red. It wasn't that long ago they elected Janet Napolitano (D) as governor, before Obama got her to take over as DHS head. Tempe's a pretty blue city too, as is Tucson.
Now Utah is about as red is it gets, I think. Along with Mississippi, Alabama, etc.
Netflix should make use of dormant DVDs. Keep track of how many DVDs are in the warehouse and allow those to be "rented" via streaming. No more content deals. Just buy the movie, keep track who's streaming it at any given time (being very careful to not go over), and profit. I'm sure it will piss off Hollywood, but at this point I think the tech industry could beat Hollywood in a large court case like this. No more turnaround time. DVDs rented for literally 90 minutes.
Just came to say I'm impressed by you still using 56k AND visiting slashdot. I hope you have ad blockers running (even though they take 20 minutes to download) ;)
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You are very lucky. I live in a suburb of Phoenix that is only served by Centurylink (no cable TV available). On a good day I can see 1.2 meg down speed and it's costing me over $60/month. Centurylink has been promising to upgrade soon (within 2 months) for the last five years.
Why would they upgrade? They are your only choice of provider, they have you by the short and curlies.
Time to move...
Works for practically everything I want to watch.
Might subscribe to HBO when Game of Thrones starts.
Cannot understand why Hulu content is not available on Huluplus.
And it suck that I cannot get plain Hulu on my Roku.
I think the "braindead" part has something to do with the fact that dictatorships don't work that way.
Copyright is a monopoly and in any other business that would be illegal.
In any business other than entertainment there are patents.
Geez, I get 30Mbps from my T-Mobile LTE.
For how long in a given month before T-Mobile cuts you back to EDGE and its 0.05 Mbps dial-up-class speed?
He's simply using his own personal definition of "Republican", which for him is "Any person or situation I don't like".
Over half my queue is Epix garbage I can barely bring myself to watch. Once it goes I'm cancelling. What will even be left? A bunch of shitty made-for-tv documentaries and direct-to-video shit from the last few years?
Get angry with the greedy studio bastards that are setting outrageous content prices for streaming rights.
How can Americans lawfully act on disapproval of Hollywood policies when Hollywood is also telling Americans whom to vote for through NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and CNN? These major TV news outlets share a parent with Universal, Disney, Paramount, Last Century Fox, and Warner Bros. respectively.
I have to know about a very specific movie in order to see if its streamable and then watch it. I hate the fact that under each category there is a relatively small list of movies but beyond that you have nothing. Why doesn't Netflix allow you to look at ALL the movies under each category?
Oh yes, Republicans pushing excessively high minimum wages targeted only at big business (and certain small business) and gun control, etc.
In fairness, I'd imagine it's probably not Hulu but the content providers that dictate that policy.
Check this Wikipedia article out. Look at the list of owners to the right. NBC-Universal, Fox, Disney. Why do you think they're so stuck on showing ads even on the pay service? It's because it's all they know.
Choice quote:
"He then went on to list a variety of exclusive shows coming up on the service, including new work from Ricky Gervais, Idris Elba and Adam Sandler."
Translation: We're going to make some cheap reality tv shows with actors who have or are about to jump the shark because we've got nothing else.
I know that Netflix does have some original programming that are respectable. I don't watch any of them. In fact, I can't name any of them. I primarily go there for movies and binge watching tv shows like lost/walking dead/etc. I suspect many/most of us do to some degree. The problem is good shows are ridiculously expensive and short lived (how many times can you watch Gravity). The bean counters are looking at that and trying to eliminate that cost even though it may kill their base audience.
TV & cable channels have become a vast wasteland of "reality" programming because it's easy and cheap. Netflix is seeing that and thinking "Wow - ME TOO!"? Is this the same CEO that wanted to split the company and raise rates?
If Hulu transitions from primarily episodic tv to include movies and netflix transitions to "me too", I'll be transitioning my service too. My loyalty is pretty weak. I do, however, hope this is a move to negotiate better terms with the content mongers.
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He just lives in some weird neighborhood in Seattle. Like in many cities, there are a few different cable companies; it has nothing to do with liberal seattle. I used to live in a city in arkansas and it had the same stupid mix. Virtually everyone in seattle has access to sucky comcast. I can get comcast or slow dsl. A very few areas have fios but they don't do new rollouts. It's no different than most places in america. There are a few lucky areas that have fios or gig ethernet, but most places don't.
Seattle has actually been working to figure out how to roll out access using their dark fiber to end users, but they are stupid and afraid to commit to spending money on it. In seattle there is one really interesting provider, Condointernet.net (bought by wave g a little while ago). There are many condo & apt buildings in seattle and now other cities that get cheap & fast gig ethernet. It's a wireless technology. http://gowaveg.com/our-buildin...
I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix.
I live in Seattle and I've never heard of anyone with such crap internet. The vast majority of people here have comcast, sadly, like me, and it works just fine.
my guess is the OP doesn't understand the difference between kilobits and kilobytes per second.
1080p in x265.
They are in bed with corporations to screw us.
Those are called Politicians.
FTFY
What does HBO have? I always regretted it when I added HBO for a month.
Prime is not worth it for many people, if I ever buy enough from Amazon so that spending $100 a year for shipping saves me money, then someone come and cut up my credit cards and give me a dope slap. I'll support the local economy instead. As such, I don't see the value of adding Amazon Prime for their limited selection and the opportunity to be told that the movie I want doesn't come with Prime and that I have to pay extra.
Netflix without those movies is still more TV than I'll ever get around to watching.
I live in North Bumblefuck, also known as Snohomish County, and have no problem streaming Netflix all day long. Comcast Business service is actually very good, look into it.
The hell? The slowest cable connection offered in most of the Netherlands is 40Mbps. If my phone had just 160kbps I'd rightly complain to the phone company.
Ahhh yeahhhhh, you REALLY haven't a clue about politics or are totally oblivious to where ALL politicians get their campaign funds. Are you really that stupid to think democrats don't take any corporate money? If you are, YOU are the major problem with this country. Stupid, and too stupid to realize how stupid you are
HBO has all the usual HBO TV shows, most of which are on another plane above everything else. The movie selection isn't ultra deep, maybe a couple hundred titles, but they do change over time and most all of them are well-known titles.
The advantage with prime is for little stuff that often requires a speciality trip to a specific store, or worse, a time and gas guzzling trip to several. I recently needed a mini-DP to VGA adapter. There's one store I could have bought it from locally, a 15 mile round trip where it would have cost me $25. I got it from Amazon for $12 and they delivered it on Sunday.
I like to support the local economy, too, but buying something made in China for double the price isn't supporting the local economy, it's subsidizing a local retailer. I buy all my beer locally and avoid chain restaurants and try to buy local grocery products.
Well, this would have been a big loss indeed. If I had been able to watch those movies through Netflix to begin with, not being in US.
It's absolutely mindblowing how much distributor-to-distributor backstabbing goes on in US and it just doesn't matter here because they never got around to get their stuff here in the first place. Obligatory XKCD.
There just isn't anything worth watching on it anymore.
I cut my cables two years ago. And my TV broke 8 months ago. I watched a bit on the iPad but I find myself "channel flipping" through Netflix now too looking for something in may have missed. I'm about to cancel. Netflix has lost its sheen...
In Netflix' SuperHD, 700MiB is only about 11.66 minutes.
Bullshit. In the United States, no politician is a "leftist," not even Bernie Sanders. You have to go to Europe to find actual leftists!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
You guys are just mean! Both sides... Grow up!
Did people read a different article than I did? The linked article says the following:
"We also have some great family films coming your way, including Minions, Hotel Transylvania 2, and Home through arrangements with Sony Pictures Animation, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation. Starting next year, we will be the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest theatrical movies from the The Walt Disney Company, including Pixar, Lucasfilm and Marvel movies. The majority of these films will arrive on Netflix faster than traditional arrangements had previously allowed."
I lose movies like World War Z and Transformers and gain access to the libraries of Disney and Sony? So long, Epix.
> The laws were written to give property owners control over the right-of-way on their property.
Doesn't that negate the very purpose of a right-of-way?
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
If iTunes picks up this contract and becomes the place where you can get all this stuff and not just another channel then Netflix might as well board up the windows now.
A few more "improvements" like this and I'll abandon Netflix.
And by "improvements" I mean fucking it up, adding commercials, and making a hash out of what there is to watch.
Good job, guys, I knew you could fuck it up if you tried hard enough.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
So what they're saying is that they want the masses to go back to pirating the movies?
rather than offer a reliable download and buffer model, so this might be good news in the long run. I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix.
I live north of Seattle about ~10 miles and we can stream Netflix without any problem. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever had an issue with streaming it. We're using Frontier, so that may be a factor. Their speed and reliability/uptime have been pretty good so far.
(We just got power back after 3 days, so watching Netflix isn't high on my list of things to do right now.)
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Very often, cities are blue, rural/suburban is red, where the state falls depends on the proportion of urban to suburban/rural.
In Maryland (very blue), the entire state is red, except two counties. Baltimore County and Prince Georges County carry the entire state in elections, but the state is not entirely blue as nationwide politics would have you believe.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
For how long in a given month before T-Mobile cuts you back to EDGE and its 0.05 Mbps dial-up-class speed?
Never. I barely use 500MB per month. Maps, email and web don't really require a lot of data.
That was my thought, a right of way is land that the property owner technically owns, but has been given over to the city/state to use for utilities. Why would the property owners have any say over how it is used?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Just stop your bullsh*t. You're embarrassing yourself.
So, no, it's not a matter of governance
Horseshit. I know from personal experience that your "cash cow" theory is pure fiction.
My previous home had both Comcast and Qwest/Centurylink. I had 12-20Mbps from the latter and 20-50Mbps from the former at various points up to 8 years ago. Both of those companies are entirely capable of providing broadband when they are not faced with la-la land anti-business governments making their job into a minefield.
Rationalize all you want. It's your fault. Enjoy.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Sanders isn't left? Oh boy, that's a good one to this hard core right wing Tea Party guy... Sanders makes Clinton look like a republican, at least right now he does.
Seriously, we all need to be totally honest with ourselves and with each other and back off the partisan rhetoric. I fully recognize my perspective differs and take pains to understand what people like you are thinking before I open my big mouth, if for no other reason than to try to understand how you can justify your positions which are so so wrong. ;)
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Then you're not a cord cutter. All that Netflix and like services have provided is watching at your convenience. Your still paying Comcast.
Comcast missed out on providing this kind of service, but in their defense most of their subscribers are sports fans who watch events at the same time.
The major problem with netflix movie streaming is that they release the same old content over and over again with maybe 1 or 3 new movies within a year. They wasted billions on Disney and will probably get to see the old and prequels of Star Wars in 2016 but who cares I've seen these more than 2 times. Better to spend $9 to $20 on purchasing DVD's or blue-rays then to wait for netflix to shell out $30 million for a movie license. Netflix original content is not bad and I do enjoy some of them. Netflix is losing TV shows as well and I doubt they will be able to renew the license since content owners make more $$$ from cable TV.
Netflix needs to have a monthly category to see what they have released on the 1st day of the month and through out it and then flush it at the end of the month and just repeat. I shouldn't be searching for new releases on the web it's like they don't want their customers watching any good tv shows and movies at all.
Netflix are also producing Clarkson, May and Hamond's new show. It won't be called Top Gear of course, the BBC still own the name, but it's being made by the original production crew and the same cast of course.
Personally I'm looking forward to the three way super-hybrid showdown (McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder, and Ferrari La Ferrari) which I've been informed will be filmed next month...
Disclosure: I don't work for Netflix but am friends with one of the ex Top Gear staff.
Honestly I don't even know how the hell she got elected. I never met a single person who actually liked her, and I've lived in Arizona my entire life, including Tempe. She's got a big reputation for telling bald faced lies.
Agreed... This is a pretty idiotic line of thought. I live in the only state where every single county voted red in the last two presidential elections and have more than one carrier where I can get 48+mbps. The D or R next to the politicians name isn't why he has no high speed access, it is his local government and ISP.
The "republicans" post is a TROLL!
Holy crap, stop it with your "insightful" comments that Seattle is not very Republican. The poster knows that and is just delighting in seeing you people show your idiocy by trying to "correct" him.
On definitely I have Netflix which I do pay for it augments my piracy :-P
But Netflix super hd is fucking amazing even on my little Nexus 7 2nd gen which has a 1080 native res its amazing.
I used netflix in/before Starz days and quit for some time... Went back to 'check it out' over the years and the service really sucks compared to what it was like... AS far as content goes... It's current 'system' pushes episodes and doesn't let you browse all their content, rather only perform searches which are largely unavailable...
Not worth $7.99 month to me... Says something about the people who do like/pay for the service tho...
Not the previous poster, but I've been struggling to understand how to answer this question
Let me explain my reasoning: Someone who drops a subscription to video on demand (VOD) in favor of OTA DTV reverts to having to schedule her life around when a program is broadcast or miss the program. To restore an experience remotely comparable to VOD, a viewer needs to use a DVR. TiVo DVRs are sold with very slim (possibly even negative) margins, hoping that people will either pay for the required monthly subscription or buy a $500 lifetime subscription for the unit.
My DVR is a Linux PC running MythTV that I bought in 2008 [...] not including my time spent assembling the computer, learning how to use MythTV, or keeping things running
Are those sold pre-assembled and pre-configured at a reasonable price? I ask because I know a lot of people who would find "not including my time" unacceptable. They choose to pay for TV because they're willing to pay extra for the reliability of an appliance as opposed to having to fiddle with keeping a big tower running and updated in the living room just to have VOD.
I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix. [...] 160 kbps
Geez, I get 30Mbps from my T-Mobile LTE.
[How fast do you hit the cap on LTE?]
I barely use 500MB per month. Maps, email and web don't really require a lot of data.
Netflix uses a lot more data than that.
With picture quality that will make you want to claw your eyes out.
... and it's been that way for months now.
I'm starting to think that Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos is not a very good Chief Content Officer...
665: The mark on the forehead of Satan's slightly less evil brother, Stan.
Not around here. Local ISP was running fiber through another citizens lawn and that person wasn't even a customer. Trenched a line right through. If you're in the city, ISPs have 100% access. They come through my property to run to someone else's land. Never even contacted me. They did a great job though, very professional. I couldn't even tell where they buried the fiber without getting up close.
From my discussions with people in other areas, it seems that by global standards, most Democrats are Center-Right (and Republicans even further Right than that, though honestly not that far off in the majority of their platform - the large parts neither party ever really talk about). I will agree that Sanders is likely at least Center, if not slightly Left, but in many places, that still wouldn't make him a "leftist". He'd still be "centrist".
~Anguirel (lit. Living Star-Iron)
QA: The art of telling someone that their baby is ugly without getting punched.
Nope, Sanders is centrist. Actual socialists are way farther left than he is.
You only think he's leftist because the mainstream Democrat party is moderate right-wing.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Oh how left we lean....
And I suppose his "I'm a democratic socialist" claim doesn't mean anything then... Not that he is a socialists but he does claim to be one... I'm prepared to believe he's pretty much to the left of center because that's what he claims he is, what most commentators call him, and what he appears to be to this guy on the right...
He may look centrist to you, but I'm guessing that's just a prospective problem on your part.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Of course he's left of center, here's why:
1. He calls himself a "Democratic Socialist" which is left of the democratic party which is itself left of the center in this country. Yea, I know he was "independent" but that does NOT mean center in this case, as he's his own brand of socialist light...
2. He's running to the left of Hillary right now, trying to erode her support with the democratic base. Hillary is running just left of center (well she's not really doing anything right now but staying out of the fray and cashing donor's checks) trying to protect her base and force Sanders et.al to run left of her because there is no room on the right in the democrat party. He will be forced further left in an effort to garner support from the base once Hillary unleashes all her money and actually starts the campaign...
3. It's what democrats ARE. They crowd the center from the left, just like the republicans crowd from the right. Democrats are generally left of center, almost without exception.
Sanders may want to SAY he's centrists, Clinton will run as one too. Heck, Obama ran as a centrist but he's been decidedly left of center in his policy and actions. Everybody wants to SAY they are "in the middle" but few really are. So my policy is to ignore what the candidates claim they are and look at their track records, assuming they have one. Obama was *clearly* a left of center politician even with his short record, and has lived up to my expectations fairly well. Sanders would make Obama look like George Washington if he made it to office.... Not that I'm worried he would, Hillary is going to squash him like a bug with all the money she has once she actually *starts* her campaign.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Yes, but Arizona's not quite that way. Remember, the infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in Maricopa County, which is the county that has almost all the Phoenix metro area (only Apache Junction, east of Mesa, is outside of it, in Pinal County). He keeps getting re-elected by the voters in the Phoenix metro area, not a bunch of rural people. Also, the majority of the state's population is in that same county, and they keep electing Republican senators.
I don't know if I would exactly compare Phoenix with Baltimore as far as urban goes :)
I would expect the population density of your average central/mountain time city is about like the suburbs around here.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Which is why I said "globally". He's left for the U.S., but the comment you replied mentioned needing to go to Europe to find a true "leftist". The U.S. as a whole is decidedly Right from a global perspective. As I said -- Democrats (from this global perspective), are Center-Right, Republicans (again, from this global perspective) are Right to Far Right. Bernie is left enough of the common Democrat to maybe make it back to Center or even slightly Left, but would not be considered "leftist".
I also disagree with your perception of Obama's actual policies and actions (as opposed to his rhetoric). Going solely from what he personally has done as President (i.e. primarily continuing and extending the policies George W. Bush set into place, defending the need for Patriot Act powers), he'd probably be hailed as the best Republican president we've ever had if he had an "R" by his name.
~Anguirel (lit. Living Star-Iron)
QA: The art of telling someone that their baby is ugly without getting punched.
Aaarrrrrrr!!!!!
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