Netflix cull

The_Valeyard

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34110968



Netflix is culling lots from there catalogue. Not sure how I feel about it, Think its a bad movie to have less content. I k ow they want to concentrate on their own shows, but still losing movies and tv show, not good.

jester77

The_Valeyard wrote: »

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34110968



Netflix is culling lots from there catalogue. Not sure how I feel about it, Think its a bad movie to have less content. I k ow they want to concentrate on their own shows, but still losing movies and tv show, not good.

The alternative is a higher subscription for average content. I think Netflix are smart here, quality over quantity so they don't have to increase costs for the consumer. Netflix are not dumb, they know exactly what people are watching, and there is not a lot of quality in what they are culling. Better to invest that money into quality content instead of renewing contracts.

Sudden Valley

Conversly subscibers will now being paying the same price but now for reduced content.

jester77

Sudden Valley wrote: »

Conversly subscibers will now being paying the same price but now for reduced content.

The money will instead be invested in original content so subscribers can expect new series in the future. And they are doing a pretty decent job thus far imo. Narcos is one of the best series I've watched in a very long time.

Sudden Valley

i agree that a lot of the series net flix are producing are good but this is a bad move for those of us that would wish for a legal comprehensive online catalogue of films and movies from a single provider.

ErinGoBrath

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Think its a bad movie to have less content.

Puntastic!

Nody

Sudden Valley wrote: »

i agree that a lot of the series net flix are producing are good but this is a bad move for those of us that would wish for a legal comprehensive online catalogue of films and movies from a single provider.

Which will never exist as the film companies will play out the various services against each other (as I'm quite sure the $1 billion price tag of the previous deal would have been up by at least 50% in this renewal). This will be no different than what's on cable with various cable networks running certain shows/movies over others who can't.

icdg

Worth noting that this is for the U.S., and doesn't affect the UK and Ireland catalogue. It does indicate where Netflix are planning on going - they want to be a HBO/Showtime competitor, rather than basic cable.

The market is quite different in the U.S. in that premium movies and drama drive premium TV subscriptions in a way they don't in the UK & Ireland, where sport is the top driver. (In the US all the major leagues are on terrestrial TV - just one NFL game a week is screened on a pay-TV channel and that game is on ESPN, which is a basic tier channel, not premium). That's the context Netflix are thinking in.

pickarooney

They're clearing out a ton of stuff to male room for Adam Sandler?

Brilliant move.

_Kaiser_

pickarooney wrote: »

They're clearing out a ton of stuff to male room for Adam Sandler?

Brilliant move.

Yep..

Netflix is banking on original content, from the likes of Ricky Gervais, will set it apart

Err.. riiiiight! :rolleyes: Funnily enough I only took their offer of another free trial yesterday but I just can't see the benefit when so much of the UK/IE content is lost to Sky anyway.

Speaking of Sky, this move reminds me of what happened to football back in the day. Was all on Sky Sports, then Premiership plus appeared (seperate sub), then there was Setanta, now BT... great for the content providers maybe, but not so much for the end user who faces paying for multiple subs just to keep what they already had!

ThisRegard

People are forgetting the deal that kicks in with Disney next year which will give subscribers access to Disney, and their various studios, output before anyone else. People complain enough about not getting the latest releases, and when they shuffle their money around to head in this direction, people complain about not having access to a load of old releases.

The_Valeyard

ThisRegard wrote: »

People are forgetting the deal that kicks in with Disney next year which will give subscribers access to Disney, and their various studios, output before anyone else. People complain enough about not getting the latest releases, and when they shuffle their money around to head in this direction, people complain about not having access to a load of old releases.

Forgot about that, but I am a fan of rewatching old shows, classic episodes from certain shows.