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Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix

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

Chocolate wrote in with a submission that was the inspiration for:

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: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Sunday July 14 2019, @12:32PM (2 children)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Sunday July 14 2019, @12:32PM (#866874)

    I have stacks of boxes with the original disks, which I almost never access. I've ripped it all to MPEG2 (DVD) and H.264 (Blu Ray) and then reencoded it all to H.265. The machine I'm typing from has a 3TB share of media files, and I've got Kodi installed on most of the devices in the house.

    It's incredibly convenient - but the whole setup process, including ripping hundreds of disks and reencoding them, was a royal pain.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 14 2019, @04:11PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday July 14 2019, @04:11PM (#866929) Homepage Journal

    Truth. It's much easier for one person to rip video and distribute it than for everybody to have to rip it themselves. Greener too from all the juice used for each encode.

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    • (Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Monday July 15 2019, @09:12PM

      by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Monday July 15 2019, @09:12PM (#867323)

      Right now I don't distribute. I can see the ethical arguments for it but I don't completely buy them. I might change my mind.

      As a more practical thing, I know just enough about anonymity software, etc... to get myself into trouble. With my luck the first time I tried to use Tor to upload to a pirate torrent site I'd get malware on all my boxes and an overnight MPAA lawsuit.