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Old 04-27-2019, 08:50 PM   #3281
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Pretty scary platform when they don't have a single customer locked in past a month. The second someone does this better they're toast. I wonder why they don't see it this way?

Do they just look at their subscriber numbers and assume they're invincible?
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Old 04-27-2019, 08:55 PM   #3282
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Maybe, that combined with some early success on Netflix originals probably skewed how easy they thought it was going to be to lose content from other providers and remain successful. It's kind of like AMC coming out with AMC and Breaking Bad and then never being able to replicate.

Disney+ will be a problem, but less so at the start because Disney is rolling it out with a low price to gain marketshare. If more people had to choose because they were the same price, Netflix can't compete with Disney.

I would assume they know at this point and there's at minimum worry, if not yet panic, in their offices.
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Old 04-27-2019, 08:58 PM   #3283
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One thing though, they do have decent content it’s just not on the Canadian one. Change over to The Netherlands or US and it’s not bad.
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Old 04-27-2019, 09:25 PM   #3284
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So has Netflix pretty much abandoned movies?
TV shows make more financial sense than movies. You can do 6 - 13 episodes on the same set with the same actors. That's why they don't typically invest in mini-series. You can carry over those sets to multiple seasons and reduce costs.

Mudbound, Roma, Ballad of Buster Srugs, Okja, Gerald's Game, Beasts of No Nation, Bird Box, Icarus, Velvet Buzzsaw and The Highwaymen. Lots of good original Netflix films.

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Old 04-27-2019, 10:28 PM   #3285
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So Netflix basically refuses to commit to any show past 3 seasons, which would be ok I guess if they let the show runners know in advance, but they don't so we get all of these shows ending on cliff hangers. There's a list of Netflix originals that I've had in my queue, but I'm not going to bother now knowing that most of them won't get proper endings
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Old 04-27-2019, 10:37 PM   #3286
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One thing though, they do have decent content it’s just not on the Canadian one. Change over to The Netherlands or US and it’s not bad.
I thought I read that Netflix Canada had basically caught up to Netflix US for content?
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Old 04-27-2019, 10:54 PM   #3287
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I thought I read that Netflix Canada had basically caught up to Netflix US for content?
Sure seems to have, mind you that could be because slowly bit surely Netflix originals are becoming the best content on there and they're not region locked.

Either way Netflix Canada has made huge strides. Was only a couple years ago it seemed a VPN was essential to using netflix
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Old 04-27-2019, 11:00 PM   #3288
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Yeah, I was just thinking maybe it's less to do with how great Netflix Canada has become and more to do with how lacking the US version has become.

I used to envy blockbusters and other great movies on the US version that we couldn't get. But it seems we bridged the gap at least in part due to the US saying "**** good movies, we'll just take people's money until something better comes along and beats us!".
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Old 04-27-2019, 11:10 PM   #3289
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I thought I read that Netflix Canada had basically caught up to Netflix US for content?


That’s probably true. I just looked up what’s being added and removed from US Netflix and looks like a lot of good movies being removed and replaced with Netflix content. I used to watch Better Call Saul, Star Trek Discovery, and Rick & Morty on Netherlands though as the episodes were updated a few days after airing.
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Old 04-27-2019, 11:13 PM   #3290
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I think a big thing too is that Netflix US is losing content to lots of other streaming services, but some of those services aren't available in Canada so those shows are still available here
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Old 04-28-2019, 07:16 PM   #3291
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I just finished season 2 of The OA.

I don't remeber the last time I yelled "HOLY ####" at my TV.

This is probably the most creatively ambitious TV show anyone has ever made.
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I just finished season 2 of The OA.

I don't remeber the last time I yelled "HOLY ####" at my TV.

This is probably the most creatively ambitious TV show anyone has ever made.
It was ####### amazing. I can't think of a show as intricate, thoughtful, creative, and convoluted (in a good way?) that i've ever seen. The very ending of season two didn't knock my socks off, but the rest of it idid.
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Old 04-28-2019, 11:54 PM   #3293
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I wasn't totally sure what to think after season 1, but I don't care if it does take another two plus years, I'm in. I need more of this. It's unique.

One of the things I respect about what Batmanglij and Marling have done is that there is no taking the easy road. There are some things that, out of context, sound utterly silly about this show. Even in context, you kind of have to be the sort of person who is open to a certain degree of suspension of disbelief. The way most shows now would deal with the epic or the strange is to wink at the audience - allow us to maintain our cynicism by reassuring us that this is all ironic and that the show is in on it, and you're allowed to enjoy the bizarre because "we're not taking ourselves too seriously". Nope - this show does take itself seriously, and doesn't apologize. There's no punches pulled and therefore no stage slap. That's art, not entertainment.

I think the show is polarizing for a number of reasons. There are obviously people who the show is not for because they just don't like anything "weird" or challenging in their TV. There are people who the show isn't for because they can't process abstractions. There are, on the other side, people who are suspicious of anything that might be artistically pretentious and reject anything that could be interpreted that way as a sort of defense mechanism against seeming pretentious themselves. In other words, this is a total niche. Twin Peaks is the only thing I can compare it to in TV. In movies, it kind of reminds me of Aronofsky's "Fountain".

Anyway, if I was a billionaire, I'd find out what a season of this costs and just pay them to make season 3. It's not the greatest TV show out there, or anything close - far too haphazard - but stuff like this needs to get made. You know... if there was any other stuff like this.
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Old 04-30-2019, 08:52 PM   #3294
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If I download content in Canada will it play when I’m in the U.S.?
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If I download content in Canada will it play when I’m in the U.S.?

It won’t play it, it will give you a error. To get around it, just put the device in airplane mode.
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I watched downloaded content on the plan yesterday but I suppose that’s because it was not connected to any network. I did have a few expired titles that I had not watched and wanted to redo load but it would not let me. Which brings me to a related question - is the content you see dependant on where your account is or where the device is? In other words is the content I see different depending on where I am?
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Old 05-01-2019, 12:03 AM   #3297
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Old 05-05-2019, 11:03 PM   #3298
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I just watched "The Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much" about the guy behind the perfect bid on the The Price is Right. That was surprisingly interesting.
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I just watched "The Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much" about the guy behind the perfect bid on the The Price is Right. That was surprisingly interesting.
I agree - it was strangely appealing. It also scared me to realize just how much I knew about The Price is Right. I guess all those years of university have helped with something.

I haven’t really watched since Drew Carey took over, but that interview they showed with him on there really made me dislike him as the host - he really seemed to #### on the entire culture of the show and it’s die hard fans.

And, surprisingly, Bob Barker is apparently still alive.
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I agree - it was strangely appealing. It also scared me to realize just how much I knew about The Price is Right. I guess all those years of university have helped with something.

I haven’t really watched since Drew Carey took over, but that interview they showed with him on there really made me dislike him as the host - he really seemed to #### on the entire culture of the show and it’s die hard fans.

And, surprisingly, Bob Barker is apparently still alive.
I’m sure he has been spayed or neutered
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