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[two years ago] Netflix had 49 of the Top 250 movies on the IMDB list. That's just under 20 percent, which isn't terrible.
But we wondered how that number has held up over the last two years in the face of a quickly shrinking library. So we reran the analysis. How many of the top 250 movies does Netflix now have?
As of September 2016, that number has dropped to 31, or about 12 percent.
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Earlier this year, David Wells, the streaming company's chief financial officer, said Netflix wants half of its content to be original productions over the next few years."We've been on a multiyear transition and evolution toward more of our own content," Wells said in a conference call in September, as reported by Variety.
Does carrying old movies and TV series really matter in a world that has already seen all of them dozens of times?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 13 2016, @10:36AM
For me, Netflix is skating perilously close to the edge of irrelevance, and doing it by fractions of degrees.
First, they started dropping all the blockbuster movies.
Then they dropped all the indy and foreign films.
Then the remaining good content started to come and go randomly. For example, I saw a quirky title called, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, and watched it. It turned out to be quite funny, a sort of Swedish Forrest Gump. Tried to watch it again with my wife two days later. Nope, nuh-uh, sorry. Gone.
Then there are the usage restrictions. We have the roku signed in at our place in the city, and the xbox signed in at the weekend house on Long Island. Have had that for years. Suddenly, Netflix wants to pretend somebody stole our credentials and make us change our password every weekend. And now they've started to bitch when my kids want to watch Wild Kratts in their room while my wife and I watch something else in ours.
The Netflix streaming subscription isn't expensive, $12/mo. But piss me off too much and even that pittance will feel like I'm overpaying. And these days, I'm feeling like I'm overpaying.
The poster at the top of the thread had the right answer: torrents. There is no other answer to corporations than to stop playing their game of artificial scarcity.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @11:21AM
For me, Netflix is skating perilously close to the edge of irrelevance, and doing it by fractions of degrees.
First, they started dropping all the blockbuster movies.
Then they dropped all the indy and foreign films.
Usually it's the licensing issues, especially geoblocking. The studios want money, but they want control even more. That's why there is something like three thousand streaming services, each with five and a half movies and asking $10 a month for access.