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It's difficult to imagine that Friends, a show that ended 15 years ago, could be of any real importance to a modern streaming giant like Netflix.
In fact the sitcom, which features a bunch of 20-somethings living together in a time before streaming was even invented, is US Netflix's second-most watched show.
Today, Netflix announced that it's poised to lose its rights to broadcast the series to its original parent company, Warner, which plans to launch its own streaming service, HBO Max in the first quarter of 2020.
The blow follows another announcement in June that Netflix's number one series, the US version of The Office, is also being snatched back by its creators, NBCUniversal, to be broadcast exclusively in the US on its own yet-to-be-launched streaming service.
Old media, analysts are noting with no small amount of surprise, is suddenly bringing the fight to Netflix, and it looks like Netflix could be the one that gets knocked out, or at least very knocked around.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:43PM (4 children)
Yesterday I found several shows on Netflix that could be worth watching. Tonight we'll start with Happy! [netflix.com] "A boozy ex-cop turned hit man thinks he's losing his marbles when a cartoon unicorn only he can see urges him to rescue a girl kidnapped by Santa." maybe rewatch Russian Doll [netflix.com]. They recently added Neon Genesis Evangelion. I've been meaning to watch Eva for ages. It could be a while before I'd need to go elsewhere. I never signed up for HBO for GoT, a friend gifted me the DVD set for xmas. I can easily see a couple of months of shows to watch on Netflix, so we're all good for now. I'd love to watch old movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday July 13 2019, @02:43PM (1 child)
I follow Netflix and Crunchyroll.
"Violet Evergarden" was available on both services.
But on Netflix the subtitles were too small to read comfortably.
On Crunchyroll they were of adequate size.
I do not understand Japanese; the English subtitles are a must for me.
There's more than which shows a service provides that determines which service I use.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @07:31AM
Same. The first season of Saiki [wikipedia.org] was excellent, but I've put watching the second and third on hold due to lack of subtitles.
I usually multitask while watching anime so with subtitles I miss half of it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 13 2019, @04:05PM
I heard Netflix trashed up that dub:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/06/25/netflix-evangelion-changes [ign.com]
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday July 13 2019, @07:38PM
Happy is great. It's so gritty it's grit has grit on it. Can't watch it with the kids though...
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek