Netflix Recommendations Thread

www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/netflix-has-plans-to-add-commercials-for-some-subscribers-and-the-ceo-explained-the-change-in-course

Thoughts, because it sounds like they're trying to lose customers on purpose. I mean I understand it will be for the lowest pay rung but something tells me they'll push it to all pay levels eventually. It feels like Netflix will become the new Blockbuster eventually.

It wouldn't be so bad but it is the same fucking 2 ads repeated. You have a series in the background all day and the same fucking advert plays every fucking time. After the 30th time the advert plays surely Prime should get the hint you have either watched it already or don't care.

Isn’t their whole model to get money from hedge funds based on showing off how many new subs/hours watched they have?

Without new subs and with truth about their viewing figures for original content being based on who watch the opening 5 seconds of one episode counting as a whole series watch and the rest being Friends rewatches they were bound to hit a wall.

Especially with services like D+ starting to offer actually good original content now.

Price hikes and introducing ads just feel like they’ll push people away more than they’ll compensate for users already lost.

The balkanisation of streaming means we were probably due a crash or rebalancing soon anyway. The advantage of it being cheaper than Sky or Virgin is totally lost when you need five or six subscriptions to keep up with everything.

There's also been reports of the culture at Netflix being absolutely toxic. As a brand, it's doing Sunak levels of self-fuckery. They're really going to hit a brick wall soon.

I remember the announcement that they wanted 50% of content to be their own. They may achieve that but it doesn't mean it'll be any good.

Though, the latest series of Russian Doll was surprisingly good.

Who needs TNG when you’ve got Another Life ?

If Netflix start adverts they can get to fuck. Subs and adverts to watch fucking Dirty Grandpa or some Netflix shovelware. Fuck off.

I dropped my subscription down from 4k to HD. Take that Netflix.

I'm just on the cheapest sub.

If I was Netflix, I would have just pretended to have a security issue and forced a global password reset in the first instance.

I'd love to subscribe to HBO Max, but alas it's not available in the UK, nor is there an app for my LG TV.

Not before 2025 as that’s when the deal expires, same here in Switzerland and a few other countries. Shame as the Sky service here which shows HBO Max stuff is terrible.

Though literally weeks later the Netflix news broke and made everybody wonder if multiple platforms with exclusive content was the best way to go and maybe everybody should just do a Sony and sell their content to everybody else instead.

If the prices weren’t daft I’d probably be fine to go back to renting individual titles and ignoring most of the generally just ok original streaming content. The main benefit of streaming platforms was the cost effectiveness of them and they’ve managed to work very hard at eliminating that advantage in a lot of ways recently.

But then I don’t have the free time to put the hours in these services really want out of their customers.

I don't mind it either, although if they stopped me being able to let my dad access it as well it would annoy me.