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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
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I keep seeing articles like this and I get a chuckle out of them, especially when they're written by mid-20 year-olds from pseudo-news sources with Journalism degrees whose ink is still wet, as though this is some sort of Machiavellian plot or feat of Nostradamian prediction..
"Netflix is, like, getting worse man! Its going to suck!"
Netflix at its inception it was incredible and innovative but as soon as all of the networks that Netflix hosted shows from saw that they were losing the residual value of their own content to a third-party provider what did they do? They became or are working on becoming their own streaming service.
Television networks werent set up to offer their own content in its entirety or even manageable chunks the way Netflix could. They could re-run episodes, but not in any meaningful capacity to satiate the changing appetite of viewers.
Netflix really didnt do anything insanely complicated, they just hosted content that people could watch at their leisure rather than have to set their PVR's and wait.
So someone else put all of the time and effort and investment into the content and Netflix paid them for the privilege of providing a service to host that content.
Even the eventual dawn of 'On Demand' viewing was clunky and unreliable.
So now every major outlet figures: Why just take money to let Netflix host our stuff when we can just do it ourselves, keep the money and maybe even double-dip a little?
Yeah, Netflix doesnt suck because they're pimping their own content hard, thats just smart because eventually the major players got wise to the game despite being very, very far behind the curve and werent going to license their content to Netflix when they could keep it themselves.
So yes, perhaps the overall quality of Netflix is going to be perceived to be in decline because the shows they host are going to only be on their proprietary networks' streaming service.
Thats not Netflix's fault per se, that was just the natural progression.
So in the cadence of the upcoming Generation:
"Netflix like, doesnt, like, suck man, its just like, becoming regular TV...."
Where every network is just going to support their own content. Just differently.
Just wait until Live Professional Sports cant prop up the existing cable structure and format. Then theres going to be a real reckoning coming.