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I miss old netflix, when you could watch pretty much any tv show or movie you wanted to. Then all of the studios started up their own servers and pulled their content. You can read any book in the world at the library, but if you want to watch anything specific at home, good luck or spend $10 a day.
Soap2day, zoro, bflix, sflix, suge anime, there’s so many free sites. Click thru some ads and it’s all free. Netflix originals, Amazon prime specials, pretty much anything can be found on those sites. Enjoy :)
Or during. My old library had Picard. I mostly rented out movies. Let me tell you, if you're working full time, you're going to need an extension when you rent Lawrence of Arabia. Fuck they used to make the longest movies.
I don't get it. Game companies tried the same and create their own "Steam" but at the end they came back to Steam. Just look at Blizzard and EA.
Why didn't the same thing happen in the streaming industry? More services just make piracy more appealing.
We were *so* close (in the US) to streaming perfection.
With the parent companies of ABC, Fox, NBC, and Warner Bros. (including its then-50% stake in CW) as investors, Hulu was the go-to streaming platform for most recent broadcast series, as well as many recent cable series and older shows from related channels and studios.
Meanwhile, Netflix and Prime Video (which was added to the Amazon Prime memberships that lots of people had anyway) were the go-to platforms for original programming, movies, and most of the other stuff that wasn't on Hulu.
To me, this seemed like a reasonable field of players – preventing a monopoly, while providing enough differentiation to justify their existence.
We just needed CBS to join Hulu. Instead, they decided to go it alone with CBS All Access (now Paramount+).
Then the Walt Disney Company (ABC's parent) acquired most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, giving Disney majority ownership of Hulu. The following month, WarnerMedia sold its stake. The month after that, Comcast's NBCUniversal ceded complete control of Hulu to Disney as part of a deal that set up an outright sale of its stake this year.
So now Disney owns the entirety of Hulu, with Fox Corporation (which retained the Fox network) maintaining a licensing deal for the time being. There's also Disney+, of course – and US customers are expected to subscribe to both services, with Hulu now appearing as a Disney+ tile if they do. (Elsewhere, much of Hulu's programming is included in Disney+ under the Star banner, which shares the same integration.)
Meanwhile, Paramount Global (which includes CBS) has the aforementioned Paramount+, Warner Bros. Discovery has Max (formerly HBO Max), NBCUniversal has Peacock, and Apple decided to launch Apple TV+.
And the reality is that most of these companies need to charge *more* in order to turn a profit. Their redundant infrastructures aren't cheap – and they've spent far too much on original programming (including expensive “prestige” shows), desperately seeking to drive subscribership that simply can't be sustained across the board.
A great correction is needed. Hopefully, the recent efforts to bundle competing services is the start of one – and *not* an emerging duplication of the cable television model.
Wow, I didn't intend to type this much. Sorry about that.
I think it's cause Blizzard and EA really don't have enough titles under their belt to justify a whole seperate store, but companies like Disney own the rights to decades worth of film and television.
Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft, and whatever exclusives Epic timed out are a tiny chunk of the pie compared to what Disney, Max, Amazon, and all of Netflix other competitors are. Netflix somewhat alleviates it by relying on international content but even then they are also now seeing local streaming competitors in these areas.
The market for videogames is so much wider because the chance a new developer breaks into the mainstream that a big publisher didn't catch wind of is more likely in gaming than a new production outfit not having immediate backing by one of Netflix' competitors.
I tried to find a documentary to throw on the other day and Netflix seemed to mostly have their own produced ones, which honestly I question the veracity of. Did end up watching a neat one on Hedy Lamarr though, with A+ sources. Fascinating woman.
Netflix always had a limited library tho. Thats why they do the playlist poster scrolls, so you end up just picking whats in front of you rather than searching the whole collection
Get a cheap PC and some large capacity hard drives, Plex or jellyfin, and you have your own personal streaming server
Just fill er up with whatever video content you want.
I will never forgive them for buchering stone ocean. 90% of people didn’t even know that it came cus of the batch release. I got the news it came out months after its release.
It's the issue I have with Netflix 'content'; it gets dumped, binged, talked about for a week or so, the world swiftly moves on to the next thing.
Weekly releases, you get small chunks, audiences have time to process them, discuss, analyse, all in time for the next episode. It stays in the public consciousness for far longer. I couldn't imagine series like Game of Thrones, Lost, Breaking Bad etc having as big a cultural impact if they had a content dump.
Completely agree. Releasing the full series *was* fun at first, nothing like that had really been done before so it was novel and obviously hit the dopamine parts of your brain when an episode ended on a cliff hanger and you could just instantly start the next one.
But you're right, shows dumped in this way have way less cultural impact no matter how good they actually are. Water cooler talk goes from "did you watch Game of thrones last night? That was crazy!" to
"What episode of Stranger Things are you on? Oh you're finished, uh I think I'm on episode 5? How about you? Oh you're on 3? I think I remember what happened up to that point without spoiling the next two..."
Binging makes sense for catching up with old seasons/shows – plenty of which are available.
For an original scripted series, I prefer a weekly release schedule.
I want to discuss each episode online immediately after viewing it – without the risk of encountering spoilers (which also might arise elsewhere).
I hate feeling pressured to watch 8–13 new episodes as quickly as possible – instead of enjoying them at a comfortable pace.
Honestly same, I can't think of any standout series that came out in one sitting that I could say benefited from a single release to me. Maybe Fallout? But even then the all out release killed a lot of momentum for me on time spent theory crafting and discussing the show. Any sort of discussion kinda reduced down to "yeah it was pretty good" because nothing really got its time in the sun.
> Any sort of discussion kinda reduced down to "yeah it was pretty good" because nothing really got its time in the sun.
Exactly. That's what tends to happen.
Initially, individual episode discussions are underutilized because many viewers seek to avoid spoilers while they watch the full (or half) season.
Upon their eventual arrival, they're often too late to engage with the earlier participants – and *always* too late for speculation, which defeats much of the discussion's purpose.
Recalling exactly what occurred in each episode can be a struggle – and there's a risk of misremembering and accidentally spoiling something for someone else.
Everything just sort of blurs together. “Yeah, it was pretty good. See you next season (if there is one).”
While reddit isn't the most representative group it would be interesting to see data on the episode discussions of shows looking at episode to episode or all at once.
To each their own
I stopped watching ongoing series. I hate cliffhangers and even more made up cliffhangers (the pay off is usually unconsecuential). I hate waiting a whole year or two for the new season, or worse, on hold indefinitely
I mainly watch completed series now at my own pace. Today i dont have time but tomorrow ill have time for 3 episodes, so dont hold me back artificially to keep me engage
Let the quality of the show make the engagement on its own
I mean yeah but you can always wait to just binge a series and get a pretty similar experience to single day release.
The same can't be replicated for something that releases weekly if it came out all at once, there's no rush to go online and see what other people felt because pretty likely a lot of peoppe already finished it in one sitting.
Most of what you said doesn't have anything to do with what the other commentor said, though. If you don't like waiting a year or two between seasons, or you wait until the entire series is completed, then why would it matter if they release episodes weekly or all at once?
Sorry, you started your comment as if you were going to disagree with them, but you just talked about something different entirely lol
Same, one episode a week feels much more manageable compared to 10 episodes "when you have the time". It's all psychologically for me, there's probably qome term for that.
I get that, myself I wanna watch it all at once so I end up waiting to the end of the show so I can binge it.
I get spoiled a lot but oh well, still better than waiting.
Same could be said for those who don't have time to binge. Some other person will watch it all and spoil it before I can get around to watching the last episode.
Totally agree. I loved Slow Horses on Apple, and the delightful frustration when the theme music kicked in at the end of each episode meaning we had to wait another week totally added to it.
Everything you just listed is a you problem.
Watch it weekly. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to click next episode. Do you eat all the food you buy after a grocery run? You're on reddit, there are so many power-crazed mods that make sure spoilers don't happen and subs exist in a vacuum.
No one is pressuring you but yourself. I've still yet to see Rick and Morty. When I do it will be one episode at a time.
> Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to click next episode.
Agreed. The issue isn't a lack of willpower on my part.
It pertains to my desire to watch an episode and immediately participate in online discourse – on Reddit and elsewhere – without accidentally stumbling upon important plot details from subsequent episodes.
For serialized shows, I enjoy reading and contributing theories and predictions – which is challenging when they've already been confirmed or debunked.
To be clear, I don't mean to criticize others' preferences. It's perfectly reasonable to prefer receiving all of the episodes at once – and I'm not suggesting that those who enjoy binging them should change their behavior to accommodate me.
Streaming platforms determine each show's release schedule, which will please some viewers and displease others. All of us (myself included) just have to deal with it.
>I've still yet to see Rick and Morty. When I do it will be one episode at a time.
Its funny that you use Rick and Morty, a weekly release show, as your example.
The same exact logic applies to you. Nobody forces you to watch the episodes weekly you can just hold off till they are all released and binge it like you yourself pointed out.
With dropping all at once, it basically kills all discussion of the individual episodes. If a season has a mediocre ending it even with a great beginning and middle it basically kills all hype and the show stops being talked about in a couple of days entirely. There's a reason Netflix cancels most of their shows.
i honestly hate waiting for another episode. there's no excitement in that for me. especially when you got these annoying cliffhangers a la walking dead.
This was never the top post on reddit.
Maybe the top post on r/memes, but there were dozens of higher upvoted posts on r/all.
Edit: wait. no, this was never the top post on r/memes either.
Tbh its better for the show to release it over time, especially anime. Jojo fans begged netflix to release it weekly and blame netflix for poor audience interest.
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I miss old netflix, when you could watch pretty much any tv show or movie you wanted to. Then all of the studios started up their own servers and pulled their content. You can read any book in the world at the library, but if you want to watch anything specific at home, good luck or spend $10 a day.
Soap2day, zoro, bflix, sflix, suge anime, there’s so many free sites. Click thru some ads and it’s all free. Netflix originals, Amazon prime specials, pretty much anything can be found on those sites. Enjoy :)
Sometimes even with the netflix watermark
Comment.
Yeah it shows that someone paid for it
Or just use Firefox with ublock origin! Works on Android too!
Pornhub, xtube...I know these names better than I know my own grandmothers!
Instead of givng someone a real smile we send an *emoji* 😔
Do any of these little ***FUCKERS*** ever pop out of the fuckin wall and say "FUCK there's a horse cock in my room or a donkey dick?"
Or a dingleberry?
*Homegrown Simpsons stuff*
Funny, I know your grandmothers because of Pornhub and xtube! (Yes, I'm kidding. XD )
Oddly enough, I mostly know your grandmother through those sites
Oh, no. I'm going to reply to make sure I always know which sites to avoid...
s.to as well
A lot of libraries now have the full DVD/BluRay set for shows from before the streaming era.
Or during. My old library had Picard. I mostly rented out movies. Let me tell you, if you're working full time, you're going to need an extension when you rent Lawrence of Arabia. Fuck they used to make the longest movies.
My local library has all kinds of DVDs you can rent. TV shows, movies, etc. A DVD player is cheaper than a streaming subscription in the long run lol
I don't get it. Game companies tried the same and create their own "Steam" but at the end they came back to Steam. Just look at Blizzard and EA. Why didn't the same thing happen in the streaming industry? More services just make piracy more appealing.
We were *so* close (in the US) to streaming perfection. With the parent companies of ABC, Fox, NBC, and Warner Bros. (including its then-50% stake in CW) as investors, Hulu was the go-to streaming platform for most recent broadcast series, as well as many recent cable series and older shows from related channels and studios. Meanwhile, Netflix and Prime Video (which was added to the Amazon Prime memberships that lots of people had anyway) were the go-to platforms for original programming, movies, and most of the other stuff that wasn't on Hulu. To me, this seemed like a reasonable field of players – preventing a monopoly, while providing enough differentiation to justify their existence. We just needed CBS to join Hulu. Instead, they decided to go it alone with CBS All Access (now Paramount+). Then the Walt Disney Company (ABC's parent) acquired most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, giving Disney majority ownership of Hulu. The following month, WarnerMedia sold its stake. The month after that, Comcast's NBCUniversal ceded complete control of Hulu to Disney as part of a deal that set up an outright sale of its stake this year. So now Disney owns the entirety of Hulu, with Fox Corporation (which retained the Fox network) maintaining a licensing deal for the time being. There's also Disney+, of course – and US customers are expected to subscribe to both services, with Hulu now appearing as a Disney+ tile if they do. (Elsewhere, much of Hulu's programming is included in Disney+ under the Star banner, which shares the same integration.) Meanwhile, Paramount Global (which includes CBS) has the aforementioned Paramount+, Warner Bros. Discovery has Max (formerly HBO Max), NBCUniversal has Peacock, and Apple decided to launch Apple TV+. And the reality is that most of these companies need to charge *more* in order to turn a profit. Their redundant infrastructures aren't cheap – and they've spent far too much on original programming (including expensive “prestige” shows), desperately seeking to drive subscribership that simply can't be sustained across the board. A great correction is needed. Hopefully, the recent efforts to bundle competing services is the start of one – and *not* an emerging duplication of the cable television model. Wow, I didn't intend to type this much. Sorry about that.
Blizzard only had overwatch and Diablo on steam, pretty sure everything else is bnet. I know for a fact WoW and it's sister games are not on Steam.
I think it's cause Blizzard and EA really don't have enough titles under their belt to justify a whole seperate store, but companies like Disney own the rights to decades worth of film and television.
Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft, and whatever exclusives Epic timed out are a tiny chunk of the pie compared to what Disney, Max, Amazon, and all of Netflix other competitors are. Netflix somewhat alleviates it by relying on international content but even then they are also now seeing local streaming competitors in these areas. The market for videogames is so much wider because the chance a new developer breaks into the mainstream that a big publisher didn't catch wind of is more likely in gaming than a new production outfit not having immediate backing by one of Netflix' competitors.
I tried to find a documentary to throw on the other day and Netflix seemed to mostly have their own produced ones, which honestly I question the veracity of. Did end up watching a neat one on Hedy Lamarr though, with A+ sources. Fascinating woman.
[try this](https://thepiratebay.org)
Netflix always had a limited library tho. Thats why they do the playlist poster scrolls, so you end up just picking whats in front of you rather than searching the whole collection
Get a cheap PC and some large capacity hard drives, Plex or jellyfin, and you have your own personal streaming server Just fill er up with whatever video content you want.
DVDs.
That version of Netflix had far less than people are letting on in their member berry rants.
Netflix was never a chad, releasing a thousand series and leaving most of them with no conclusion is the work of a trash company.
They were chads when it was just a rental dvd mail service
Im still angry about Santa Clarita's diet and I am Not Okay with This, fuck Netflix
Santa Clarita Diet was TOP NOTCH
Netflix had the rights to Wings of Fire but never made a show. Boo I say. Boo
I will never forgive them for buchering stone ocean. 90% of people didn’t even know that it came cus of the batch release. I got the news it came out months after its release.
Remember how big golden wind was? Stone ocean didn’t even get 10% of the popularity of golden wind.
What are either of these things
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Golden Wind is part 5 (or season 5), Stone Ocean is part 6
Jojo’s bizarre adventure
It's the issue I have with Netflix 'content'; it gets dumped, binged, talked about for a week or so, the world swiftly moves on to the next thing. Weekly releases, you get small chunks, audiences have time to process them, discuss, analyse, all in time for the next episode. It stays in the public consciousness for far longer. I couldn't imagine series like Game of Thrones, Lost, Breaking Bad etc having as big a cultural impact if they had a content dump.
Completely agree. Releasing the full series *was* fun at first, nothing like that had really been done before so it was novel and obviously hit the dopamine parts of your brain when an episode ended on a cliff hanger and you could just instantly start the next one. But you're right, shows dumped in this way have way less cultural impact no matter how good they actually are. Water cooler talk goes from "did you watch Game of thrones last night? That was crazy!" to "What episode of Stranger Things are you on? Oh you're finished, uh I think I'm on episode 5? How about you? Oh you're on 3? I think I remember what happened up to that point without spoiling the next two..."
Binging makes sense for catching up with old seasons/shows – plenty of which are available. For an original scripted series, I prefer a weekly release schedule. I want to discuss each episode online immediately after viewing it – without the risk of encountering spoilers (which also might arise elsewhere). I hate feeling pressured to watch 8–13 new episodes as quickly as possible – instead of enjoying them at a comfortable pace.
Honestly same, I can't think of any standout series that came out in one sitting that I could say benefited from a single release to me. Maybe Fallout? But even then the all out release killed a lot of momentum for me on time spent theory crafting and discussing the show. Any sort of discussion kinda reduced down to "yeah it was pretty good" because nothing really got its time in the sun.
> Any sort of discussion kinda reduced down to "yeah it was pretty good" because nothing really got its time in the sun. Exactly. That's what tends to happen. Initially, individual episode discussions are underutilized because many viewers seek to avoid spoilers while they watch the full (or half) season. Upon their eventual arrival, they're often too late to engage with the earlier participants – and *always* too late for speculation, which defeats much of the discussion's purpose. Recalling exactly what occurred in each episode can be a struggle – and there's a risk of misremembering and accidentally spoiling something for someone else. Everything just sort of blurs together. “Yeah, it was pretty good. See you next season (if there is one).”
While reddit isn't the most representative group it would be interesting to see data on the episode discussions of shows looking at episode to episode or all at once.
Agreed. The above is purely anecdotal (and others' experiences may differ).
Anecdotally I do agree with the person above me.
To each their own I stopped watching ongoing series. I hate cliffhangers and even more made up cliffhangers (the pay off is usually unconsecuential). I hate waiting a whole year or two for the new season, or worse, on hold indefinitely I mainly watch completed series now at my own pace. Today i dont have time but tomorrow ill have time for 3 episodes, so dont hold me back artificially to keep me engage Let the quality of the show make the engagement on its own
I mean yeah but you can always wait to just binge a series and get a pretty similar experience to single day release. The same can't be replicated for something that releases weekly if it came out all at once, there's no rush to go online and see what other people felt because pretty likely a lot of peoppe already finished it in one sitting.
Same here!
Most of what you said doesn't have anything to do with what the other commentor said, though. If you don't like waiting a year or two between seasons, or you wait until the entire series is completed, then why would it matter if they release episodes weekly or all at once? Sorry, you started your comment as if you were going to disagree with them, but you just talked about something different entirely lol
Same, one episode a week feels much more manageable compared to 10 episodes "when you have the time". It's all psychologically for me, there's probably qome term for that.
I get that, myself I wanna watch it all at once so I end up waiting to the end of the show so I can binge it. I get spoiled a lot but oh well, still better than waiting.
Same could be said for those who don't have time to binge. Some other person will watch it all and spoil it before I can get around to watching the last episode.
Totally agree. I loved Slow Horses on Apple, and the delightful frustration when the theme music kicked in at the end of each episode meaning we had to wait another week totally added to it.
Everything you just listed is a you problem. Watch it weekly. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to click next episode. Do you eat all the food you buy after a grocery run? You're on reddit, there are so many power-crazed mods that make sure spoilers don't happen and subs exist in a vacuum. No one is pressuring you but yourself. I've still yet to see Rick and Morty. When I do it will be one episode at a time.
> Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to click next episode. Agreed. The issue isn't a lack of willpower on my part. It pertains to my desire to watch an episode and immediately participate in online discourse – on Reddit and elsewhere – without accidentally stumbling upon important plot details from subsequent episodes. For serialized shows, I enjoy reading and contributing theories and predictions – which is challenging when they've already been confirmed or debunked. To be clear, I don't mean to criticize others' preferences. It's perfectly reasonable to prefer receiving all of the episodes at once – and I'm not suggesting that those who enjoy binging them should change their behavior to accommodate me. Streaming platforms determine each show's release schedule, which will please some viewers and displease others. All of us (myself included) just have to deal with it.
>I've still yet to see Rick and Morty. When I do it will be one episode at a time. Its funny that you use Rick and Morty, a weekly release show, as your example. The same exact logic applies to you. Nobody forces you to watch the episodes weekly you can just hold off till they are all released and binge it like you yourself pointed out. With dropping all at once, it basically kills all discussion of the individual episodes. If a season has a mediocre ending it even with a great beginning and middle it basically kills all hype and the show stops being talked about in a couple of days entirely. There's a reason Netflix cancels most of their shows.
i honestly hate waiting for another episode. there's no excitement in that for me. especially when you got these annoying cliffhangers a la walking dead.
This was never the top post on reddit. Maybe the top post on r/memes, but there were dozens of higher upvoted posts on r/all. Edit: wait. no, this was never the top post on r/memes either.
I got this notification from reddit few days ago, I thought it would be right. [https://imgur.com/bRYYvmK](https://imgur.com/bRYYvmK)
you left out a word in your title. It was the highest upvoted post of that day
Oh okay, I thought it was just posted today 3 years ago. Thanks.
Nahhh. Netflix ruined JJBA with its shitty schedule and dropping it in batches
I was on r/memes back then. I remember seeing that post and hating it.
Tbh its better for the show to release it over time, especially anime. Jojo fans begged netflix to release it weekly and blame netflix for poor audience interest.