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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: 2) by richtopia on Thursday October 13 2016, @04:36PM
I believe Netflix still has physical disks if you want a larger selection. And Red Box fits the niche of most recent blockbusters.
(Score: 2, Informative) by ncc74656 on Thursday October 13 2016, @05:46PM
I've been a subscriber for 14 years. When they started charging $8/month for streaming, I dropped it as I had only used it once or twice while it was a free add-on. I am paying the extra $4/month for Blu-ray, however.
I think they're cutting back on distribution centers for their disc-by-mail service, however. They used to send most of my selections from a facility here in Las Vegas, but a while back they started shipping most movies from (IIRC) Santa Ana, CA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @04:40PM
They do have DVDs as well.... But several titles from the 80s that I'd like to see are not available there, either. Or on "extremely long wait" which can be weeksto get. Titles that I'd find in my old rental store before the "new economy" killed it. Ones that they'd restock if it got lost or stolen.
I guess progress isn't always improvement.