• @doublejay1999
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      481 year ago

      Honestly - streaming services are just a dud. Totally bait and switch these days .

      Amazon is totally dead. Much of their content require further payment. Netflix is stuffed with foreign content.

      They went soo hard with big budget series, but the net output doesn’t even match BBC, Despite the budget.

      Maybe if you like movies ? But I’m a series guy.

      • goldenbug
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        421 year ago

        Foreign content?

        If anything, good series from all over the world is the one reason to keep Netflix.

        • @doublejay1999
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          71 year ago

          Look at you, and your cultured appreciation of television.

          I just like American cop shows. Based in San Francisco, between ‘73 and ‘80, featuring a maverick cop and his Hispanic partner, ideally with car chases.

            • @Vqhm
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              41 year ago

              I only watch foreign cop shows where one of the detectives is a dog. And most of the time the dog solves the case.

              I’m talking Kommissar Rex/Inspector Rex, Hudson & Rex. But I’ll settle for K-9, K-911, K-9 PI, Scooby Doo, and Ace Ventura.

              Anyone got any more crime solving animals TV shows?

              • @[email protected]
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                21 year ago

                Also: Inspector Gadget.

                An international US, French, and Canadian production.

                Penny (the “hacker” niece) and Brain (the intelligent dog) solve all of the cases that Inspector Gadget (cyborg cop) bumbles through, even though he’s essentially RoboCop with gimmicks.

            • @doublejay1999
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              11 year ago

              That’s the Los Angeles era . Different animal.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 year ago

                Oh I see, Nash Bridges just isn’t enough of a car-racing, hispanic sidekick having, San Fran cop for you.

                I’m not even mad, I’m just disappointed.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        The movies seem to be all high budget, low effort drek. I love some food action movies. Doesn’t need to be cerebral or fancy. But all their movies seem like what would have been straight to video back in the day. None would be movies if pay to see in the cinema.

        It’s a shame…at first it seemed like they were going to do lots of niche content. So many might not be for you, but lots of others might like them and there would be content for your niche too. Instead it’s all lowest common denominator junk.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Right now Hulu is the only streaming a service I’m willing to pay for, mainly because they have all my favorite series and TV shows are a removed to pirate just because of the disk space

  • @[email protected]
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    331 year ago

    Honestly, this is why we should have stuff like anti-monopoly laws breaking apart too-large corps.

    Being a behemoth that can just buy up almost all the content producers and then starting your own content distributor (/steamer) and undercut the competition is dirty.

    • @captainlezbian
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      121 year ago

      Also exclusivity deals shouldn’t be legal for more than a short period of time. 6 month leads are whatever, but no, offer a better deal to everyone

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Yeah, I actually like what Sony has done in terms of expanding their offerings on Steam etc, but using stuff like “launch exclusives” to promote use on their own platform.

        Some people want to be there at launch or other a given platform for their key titles, while others are willing to wait a bit longer for the product/title to come out on the platform of their choice

    • @LukeMedia
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      61 year ago

      We do certainly have some anti-monopoly laws, though not extensive enough in my opinion. However the ones that we do have are rarely enforced properly and effectively. More laws alone won’t solve that, we should really have better enforcement as well.

        • @LukeMedia
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          11 year ago

          I figured you did, but I wanted to provide further thought for other readers :)

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    101 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Some of Netflix’s competitors are reversing a streaming war tactic by licensing their old TV shows and movies to the streamer—boosting its programming offerings but also potentially squeezing its profit margins, analysts say.

    But after Walt Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and the then-Time Warner launched their own streaming services, they pulled many of their shows from Netflix to avoid feeding a company that had grown into an arch-competitor.

    This summer, Warner Bros Discovery’s HBO network began licensing a handful of older shows to Netflix, including Insecure, Six Feet Under, Ballers, and Band of Brothers.

    Analysts at Morgan Stanley said the return of licensing deals was a “long-term positive” for Netflix and would “pad” its lead over competitors in streaming.

    Netflix will report results on Wednesday, with investors expected to focus on whether it plans to increase subscription prices and signs of progress on its new advertising tier.

    The return of licensing deals has coincided with strikes in Hollywood, which halted production of new shows and are expected to delay TV and movie releases well into next year.


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