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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, Insightful) by theluggage on Thursday October 13 2016, @10:38AM
No way to see exactly what they offer without starting a "trial period";
Believe me, its not that easy to find stuff once you're signed up, either. "The Netflix UI is brilliant" said nobody ever.
Apparently, a simple scrolling list of titles with a sensible choice of sorting & filtering options is a technical impossibility...
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday October 13 2016, @03:44PM
Back when I subscribed the only way to find stuff on Netflix was to use a separate website. And that separate website was the only way to find out when movies were going OFF of Netflix.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh