Thousands of movies will be removed from Netflix in the US after the streaming service decided not to renew a deal with distributor Epix.
Removed titles will include the Hunger Games and Transformers movies.
Netflix, which has more than 60 million subscribers worldwide, said it wanted to focus on exclusive content.
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Explaining the move to subscribers, Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos wrote: "While many of these movies are popular, they are also widely available on cable and other subscription platforms at the same time as they are on Netflix and subject to the same drawn out licensing periods."
Will this change in their library make you more or less likely to subscribe, or continue to subscribe?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Wednesday September 02 2015, @08:33AM
The great thing about Netflix was that just about anything I wanted to watch was available. Now, not so much. Exclusive deals balkanize the marketplace.
The way things are going, I'll have to subscribe to twenty streaming services if there are twenty movies I want to watch.
That's not going to happen. We're going to end up with impoverished video availability.
If this were to happen to the book industry, if I wanted to buy a book, I'd have to spend most of my time figuring out which bookstore happened to sell it, rather than just going to my regular one and letting the store figure out which publisher to special-order it from.
Come to think of it, isn't that what Amazon is in process of doing to the indie authors? Requiring exclusive deals in the hope of forcing the customers onto Kindles?
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday September 02 2015, @04:16PM
Agree. It is this sort of bollocks that causes piracy to be a leading markey alternative...
No ads. All content. And on demand.
These 3 things are fundamentally different to media from 50 years ago...