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The video streaming service plans to spend up to $8bn on content next year to compete with fast-growing rivals.
Netflix will issue bonds to investors, although the interest rate it will pay has yet to be decided, the company said in a statement.
Netflix plans to release 80 films next year, but some analysts are wary about its cash burn and debt interest costs.
The company's latest debt fundraising is its largest so far, and the fourth time in three years it has raised more than $1bn by issuing bonds.
Earlier this month, Netflix said it would raise prices in countries including the UK and US for the first time in two years.
Has Netflix added enough original material to make up for the licensed content they've dropped and the price increase they mean to enact?
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Wednesday October 25 2017, @10:10PM
The "stopping points" would just be mapped out as timestamps (kinda like how dvd-chapters are - see mkv).
Also, since most movies (with the exception of an Andy Warhol all the movies I've seen are) tend to be divided into natural chapters this will be the natural point to split it.
And it wouldn't take long until files got named with timestamps and players parsing it and just preload the next file to switch over when reaching the time indicated by the next file (this practice isn't that uncommon if you split and merge movie-files and good players don't even shut down the video out in between [so with a fast enough drive (or smart buffering) this is seamless]).
So, no issue for pirates.
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But the suggestion has three other advantages [in addition to the flexible playmodes] 1) only one intro to skip. 2) fewer "in previous epusode" 3) fewer "in next episode"