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New Data Shows Netflix's Number of Movies Has Gone Down By Thousands of Titles Since 2010 (businessinsider.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the good-and-bad dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: If you thought Netflix's movie selection had been lacking lately, you're right. The streaming service's amount of movies has dipped by over 2,000 titles since 2010, while its number of TV shows has nearly tripled. Third-party Netflix search engine Flixable compiled data that shows a dramatic shift in Netflix's priorities in recent years. In 2010, Netflix had 530 TV shows compared to 6,755 movies. Now, in 2018, the amount of TV shows has nearly tripled to 1,569, and the amount of movies offered has decreased to 4,010. It's no secret that Netflix has focused more on TV shows and less on movies in recent years, but now we have a visual representation of just how significant that focus has become.

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  1. This isn't Netflix's fault by xevioso · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The major movie studios and content owners did not want to see Netflix become another Apple iTunes, which would allow them to set the prices of movies and have control over content distribution, so raised the licensing fees to astronomical levels. And of course, players like Disney saw how controlling the content distribution in this way could be very profitable, and they have no intention of making those sorts of deals again. the genie is out of the bottle and it is not going back in.

    But that's fine. The original offerings from Netflix are often amazing, so it's no big loss.

    1. Re:This isn't Netflix's fault by Cederic · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Whether it's their fault or not, it cost them my subscription a few years ago and I'm seeing nothing that justifies signing back up.

      I don't want 'original content', I want access to all content, at a reasonable price.

    2. Re: This isn't Netflix's fault by turp182 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Netflix is changing the "interest dynamic" (plot speed).

      About 50% of Walking Dead episodes are filler, pushing commercials, not plot. I won't comment on show timing or season length (Netflix understands this perfectly).

      HBO seems to do this as well with Game of Thrones. I'm not sure why.

      But Netflix shows like Stranger Things and Luke Cage, move the plot along a lot every single episode. It's simply better entertainment.

      And yeah, studios are waking up but Netflix is spending more than any of them on original content.

      But they still have recent stuff by other production companies (for now), Rouge One, Moana (kids), Planet Earth 2 (this is recommended to me because I watched Stranger Things...), American Horror Story, etc.

      Disney's service will be successful, because... kids. But Netflix will win, they show the Human Centipede and Phineas and Ferb (for kids). The whole gamut.

      And offline download is freaking awesome! I don't pirate anymore.

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  2. Old News by dodgerfan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is old news. This same headline pops up every year. Netflix has to find it's own way with original content.

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  3. You kniow by bobstreo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd trade every Disney movie for more Daredevil and Jessica Jones.

    The best thing Netflix did was oicking up Longmire.

    I wish they'd do it for other shows that were abruptly cancelled that ended on cliffhangers and needed a lot more episodes to finish their story arcs...

  4. Not just streaming by markdavis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This isn't just streaming. I use disc service also and now have over a dozen moves waiting in my queue with "Unknown" as the availability. Some for over a YEAR NOW. Most aren't even obscure, like Matrix Revolutions and Gladiator. Really? Some dork broke/lost/stole a disc and now Netflix won't even replace it with at least one copy???

    1. Re:Not just streaming by Mousit · · Score: 4, Interesting

      This isn't just streaming. I use disc service also and now have over a dozen moves waiting in my queue with "Unknown" as the availability.

      I currently have about 80 movies in the "Unknown" availability section, and you're right, plenty of them are not in any way small or obscure. Several of them have literally been "Unknown" for over five years. I even have one that was released in 2005 and it's still unknown availability.

      However, it's even worse than that. Since the beginning of 2018 (almost on the dot, Jan 1st), even the movies that ARE in the supposedly-available part of the disc queue, they all list as "Short wait" on my queue, rather than actually available to ship immediately.

      I don't know what Netflix's definition of a "short" wait is, but I haven't received any of those since the start of the year. It reached the point that, if I wanted to actually GET any disc service I'm fucking paying for (yeah, even if they don't ship you anything, you still pay), I had to review my streaming queue and add all those movies to my disc queue too. Wouldn't you know, streamable movies are all available for immediate-ship as discs too. No "short wait" on any of those.

      The timing of this right at the start of the year makes me feel like this was something deliberate, their latest attempt to sabotage the disc service to justify ending it. I mean I can see a lot of people having that thought, "Why pay for disc service when all I'm receiving are movies I could just stream anyway?" I don't know if it's different for anyone else, but I sure can't get any non-streamable movies in the last two months.

  5. Who would have tought by fred6666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let me predict the future again. Netflix will raise prices, and offer crappier content. This will happen as long as they win more market share. If they become a dominant player, they will be just as ugly as cable and satellite.