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posted by janrinok on Thursday October 13 2016, @08:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-need-more dept.

[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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @05:07PM (#414365)

    I found 6 on the list that I wanted but don't have in my Plex yet. I added another 9 thinking about some of those movies (like they had Silence of the Lambs but not Red Dragon or Hannibal. Hannibal was better than Silence IMVVVHO.)

    But while I have Netflix DVD and Streaming, Hulu, and Comcast Xfinity, and could thus do this at no cost multiple ways (or just torrent them,) I'll get them on my Plex server the honest way and buy them cheap from either Amazon or for $1.00 each at my local pawn shop. Then burn them using software which I can legally own and use but wasn't legal for the maker to create or sell to me. That way I have the physical media so the MPAA can't bitch that they "lost money" by my format shifting it to something more permanent (via backups) and easier to play (from anywhere.)