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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 13 2019, @10:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the pray-I-do-not-alter-it-any-further dept.

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.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/tv/huge-threat-to-netflix-revealed/news-story/e86f7778556735d22e4cd9f054fb51af


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:52PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @01:52PM (#866609)

    I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. I won't pay for other streaming services. If you want a piece of my money, negotiate with Netflix. If I want to watch your stuff and it's not on Amazon or Netflix I'll rip it off DVD or download it. In fact I may still do that even if it is on Netflix or Amazon: it works so much better when I can play the files in my own media player instead of being imprisoned in somebody's streaming app. Netflix and Amazon's streaming have enough warts of their own. When somebody hires programmers on the cheap and tries to roll their own it's even worse.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @02:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @02:16PM (#866617)

    Netflix are really starting to load in old anime series. If they continue like this I won't ever need anything else.

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday July 13 2019, @02:59PM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 13 2019, @02:59PM (#866631) Homepage Journal

      Except what I've seen so far is that Netflix uses subtitles that are too small to read from a sensible viewing distance.

      • (Score: 2) by legont on Sunday July 14 2019, @12:22AM

        by legont (4179) on Sunday July 14 2019, @12:22AM (#866750)

        Netflix's inability to do subtitles was the main reason I quit it for good.

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        "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.