Funny, I have found myself more and more unsatisfied with Netflix.
OTOH, I did just watch 10 hours of Dexter in one day, so maybe it's just me that is dumber.
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Both Hollywood and Netflix are going to lose. I check to see if something I want to watch is on Hulu or Netflix. If it isn't, I download it from tpb. I'm not entirely sure how people watch movies legally these days besides going to the threater. I don't have a DVD player, my laptop has a solid state drive in place of the optical drive, and I want to watch movies on my TV rather than my computer anyways. I specifically bought a smart tv to watch illegal movies off a USB drive. It works brilliantly. Does iTunes allow you to move movies to a flash drive?
All I know about iTunes is that when people talk about Apple design philosophy and how brilliant the guys at One Infinite Loop are, I know they're not talking about itunes. It's the Joe Biden of Apple. Which makes their crappy ear buds their Hilary Clinton, I guess. _XC
The part about the average VHS store having equivalently more films now days than netflix really hit home... If you would have asked me a year ago if netflix was better than blockbuster, well, 'obviously it is, just wait until they can afford all the good movies!' But really... do you remember how great it was as a child to run through the aisles of blockbuster looking at all the movies? Really a much better experience. Even the smell of the store and watching like waynes world previews on those tvs all over the place. And the game section. /we have to go back/
I think it is a good analysis of Netflix's strategy. I am not sure I agree with the moral overtones of the story (watching TV is bad and TV series are stupid), but I do agree that Netflix is definitely trying to offer viewers hours of content rather than film options. I really think it was a very insightful analysis of what Netflix is doing with the micro-genres: that it is not using movie ratings to suggest things in a different genre/style you wouldn't have thought of, but trying to show you more of the same type of content.
Agree, both with the moral thing (dude, it's a commercial product, not a church) and the strategy analysis. I used the micro-focus thing last night to find a brit crime drama I'd never seen before. Sure, it is not Kurasawa, but it works for me after a long day. _XC
Was it The Fall? The first season of that show (only 5 hour long eps) is on Netflix now, and it's pretty good. Also, it stars Special Agent Dana Scully (aka Gillian Anderson), so I fell in love with it immediately.I used the micro-focus thing last night to find a brit crime drama I'd never seen before. Sure, it is not Kurasawa, but it works for me after a long day.
Netflix only has what I want to watch about 30% of the time. There's a better chance that YouTube will have foreign or older movies I want to watch than Netflix. I bitch about what shit Netflix is to my wife and she responds that certain studios probably don't want to sell their content for a reasonable price to Netflix. Might be true but doesn't really matter, I don't turn on the TV to watch anything, I only turn it on to watch a specific thing and if Netflix usually doesn't have it than it's useless to me.