Located 2566 results from search term 'netflix'
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Commented in Netflix to court older viewers as flow of young fans slows down
Older people tend to like shows that go for years and years and years with spinoffs galore, looking at you L&O and NCIS, at least the ones I know which makes the Netflix model of 3 seasons and a cancellation a potential problem for the demographic.
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Commented in Valve Illegally Monopolizes the PC Gaming Market, Harming Gamers and Developers, Class Action Alleges
Valve's so called monopoly has saved me money with the regular holiday sales, time by not needing to find a disk or hunt down a no-cd patch, and it was great not needing 50 different stores. These days I now have Bethesda, Gog, Ubisoft, EA Play, Xbox/Microsoft, Blizzard, Paradox, Social Club, Epic, and Steam stores or launchers. It's absurd and intrusive how things are now, my opinion.
I think steam was more like Netflix than a monopoly, it was just the best most convenient place to get things when there happened to be no competition. Today this lawsuit almost has to fail because of all the other stores that are out.
I hated Steam when it came out, I still have a slight hatred for it, but I will never like this new system of a launcher/store for every game. I miss the days of installing a game with serial codes.
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Commented in How product placements may soon be added to classic films
the product placement is targeted at individuals, and changes depending on who is watching.
Surprise, that smart TV was going to be used against you at some point... it's creepy but not surprising as more and more people try to avoid commercials by switching to Netflix or other streaming sites. It just sucks they are doing it.
Also they mention TV show Modern Family trying it out but I believe How I Met Your Mother also does this on reruns.
can do this if you are watching a film on a laptop, smartphone or smart TV, by tracking what you previously bought or looked at online.
Even more reason to get that adblocker and block third party cookies!
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Commented in Bill Gates Is Thinking About Dimming the Sun
Highlander 2? Lame
Boston Dynamics is working on the Terminator and Robocop
Musk is doing Total Recall
Netflix is doing Running Man
I guess technically by buying up all the water supply farmland in the US Gates is also, technically, doing Soylent Green and with the vaccine thing he’s heavily invested in I Am Legend
Those are solidly disturbing
there’s no need to double down with the worst post-apocalyptic sci-fi ever
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Commented in Netflix raises prices on standard and premium plans
What is there to pay more for? They have cancelled a ton of stuff all on cliffhangers because they don't have the balls to tell producers and writers not to write them that way, they are losing content from Marvel/Lucas Film/Disney (Hulu and Disney+), Time Warner/WB/HBO (HBO Max) and NBC Comcast/Universal (Peacock)... at this point only the Netflix originals will be left and if almost none of their original TV shows have endings, why should or would I bother. I don't see much in the way of "if we produce more original content you should pay for it" that they told the investors when the bread and butter that is other peoples content is being pulled constantly.
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Commented in Jelly Bean Founder Offers a Willy Wonka-Style Once-in-a-Lifetime Golden Ticket Hunt
I mean, it sounds fun. But they should document the whole thing and turn it into a Netflix Series.
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Commented in Netflix offers a collection of original movies and shows for free
This is a good move on Netflix. One of the things I like the most about them.
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Commented in YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
I don't think it was any real secret this was going to eventually happen, much like regular cable they hook you early with lots of channels for cheap then they add more or have to negotiate a new carriage agreement and prices increase, it's what happens on cable every six months when they start running banner ads, Dish Network HATES YOU AND ARE REFUSING TO CARRY FOX SPORTS NETWORKS, SWITCH TO DTV!!! and then Dish runs an ad banner that says FOX SPORTS HATES YOU AND ARE ASKING FOR TWICE THE PRICE TO BRING YOU SPORTS, TELL THEM NO YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY MORE!!! Then they settle for a modest price increase the two will then pass on to consumers while they laugh it up.
Cord Cutting options are the new cable tv. We already see this in not just YTTV but also in Netflix that constantly increased prices as the carriage agreements went up in price, and in Hulu and Amazon Prime, etc. Disney won't be content to sit at $7 a month, I imagine within a year they'll bump the price up to $10 and crow about how this is still a great deal and cost less than Netflix.
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Commented in 64 Percent of U.S. Households Either Have Cut or Will Cut Cable TV Subscriptions
Agreed. We cut the cord quite a while back. Not only is cable far pricier than Netflix, the other issue is, as you mentioned, the ads. Plus, with cable you're at the mercy of what's currently running. If it's halfway through your favorite show, too bad, you lost the first half. I don't want to pay $$ for that type of service model! I like that Netflix has tons of stuff, you can browse by genre, and it recommends stuff that's in line with what you want. And of course, no ads, and you can start watching at any time. Too busy to watch a show in one sitting? No problem - it saves your place for you! Cable can't do any of that.
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Commented in Password Sharing Costs Netflix Over $1.5 Billion Annually
That's true. And that's also why Linux runs Netflix, Google,the Internet,NASA,my computer,etc...Because it's free.
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Commented in Why you shouldn't rush to buy a 5G phone
Because you just don't need it. Your 4G phone is already over-providing with data speeds and currently no one is transmitting data anywhere near a speed or volume which comes anywhere near your phones capacity and if you think you need it for Netflix and whatnot, well you don't and they're not made to be watched on a 6" screeen anyway.
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Commented in They See It. They Like It. They Want It. They Rent It.
The problem I see with this is paying for everything with only x amount of money to do it with. Add to that the simple reality that prices will keep going up and up for everything...Just look at Netflix and Amazon as prime examples. People will eventually not be able to rent everything cause they won't be able to afford to.
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Commented in How Cord Cutting Will Drive Big Changes Across the Media Landscape
Thing is,companies like Netflix will eventually jack up the prices so much,only the one percent will be able to afford them.
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Commented in Netflix Could Utilize Blockchain Technology to Battle Disney+
Vapid bitcoin blogspam is all:
Netflix could similarly create a blockchain-based advertisement system in which users could volunteer to receive advertisements in exchange for tokenized rewards such as lower subscription fees.
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Commented in When Your Shared Netflix Account Outlasts The Relationship
I never knew there were any downsides to sharing netflix password with friends and family. Thanks for letting us know.
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Commented in Netflix has people (serenely) bulldozing their closets, and thrift stores are riding the wave
While I don't like to keep unneeded items and I do regularly donate clothing I no longer need, I have to say I don't really agree with the sentiment of only keeping things "that spark joy" - it's not very practical. As much as I hate past years' tax paperwork, I won't be throwing it out!
The title is a little misleading. This is because maybe some of the increase in donations could be due to the Netflix show, but it's quite possible that this January weather is a little better than last year's and people are following through on their New Year's resolutions to actually donate unwanted items (instead of being put off because of snow etc). They do point out this possibility in the article, but I feel they could therefore have picked a more accurate headline.
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Commented in BBC slam Netflix for 'ripping off Planet Earth and stealing Sir David Attenborough'
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Commented in Netflix lines up a bunch of high-profile animated projects
Wow! I look forward to the animated projects. Some features of netflix are so cool and innovative like "skip intro"
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Commented in Netflix Series Reportedly Giving Viewers Anxiety Attacks and Sleep Loss
It’s true. I finished The Haunting of Hill House last night, and I’ve been sorely troubled ever since. By bad writing. The series itself was adequate, but that final episode? Whatever drugs the producers were on, they should’ve brought enough for the whole class. I was on the show’s side, despite the cliff the writing fell off by the middle of the last episode. Right up until the uplifting, saccharine folksy acoustic guitar came in.
Sure, like this beat-sweetening Netflix press release says, it’s a “re-imagining” of the Shirley Jackson novel. In the same way that it’s a “re-imagining” of The Shining or The Brady Bunch Movie or Scooby Doo and The Witch's Ghost. Or Vertigo, right? Because that’s got a spiral staircase in it, too.
Save yourself the ten episodes. Watch the 1963 movie. Or better yet, read the book.
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Commented in Apple’s original TV shows will reportedly be free for people who own its devices
I think the problem is too much TV shows available, not too little! I don't have Apple, but I already don't have time to watch TV much anyway.
I'm not sure how popular this will ever be, outside of people who already have Apple.
I mean, it doesn't seem enough to entice people to switch to Apple for their phones or computers, because most of those people already have existing alternatives like Netflix or something similar, and probably don't have enough time to watch the shows they like on those platforms as it is.
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Commented in This Is What Happened When I Asked My Friends to Rate Me
Netflix link for the lazy. Also Wikipedia, IMDB, rundown, and inevitable chill down the spine.
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Commented in Over 5 Million U.S. Consumers will Cut the Cord in 2018, Survey says
This does not surprise me one bit. It's not just a bid to save money for some consumers (although certainly true in the case of some). It's that cable companies have failed to move with the times.
People simply don't have time these days to sit down in front of a TV every Tuesday night for the latest episode of whatever. More and more people are just too busy - and too busy to bother setting up a recording, too. I see the appeal of Netflix first-hand - I'd far rather be a season or two behind on a show I like, so long as I can watch it anytime without bothering to set up recordings. Another old-school thing about cable: many of these don't save your spot in a recording for more than 24 h if you pause a recording. This is ridiculous! How many people have the time (or the mood) to go back to a show within 24 h? By contrast, Netflix saves your spot for ages (I can't remember how long, but it's really long, like weeks). And on top of this, cable companies charge many times the cost of Netflix! Cable is just very poor value for money and has failed to move with the times, so I'm not surprised that the 3 big cable companies will be hard-hit in 2018.
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Commented in CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
My wife and I watched his recent series just a couple of weeks ago on Netflix. How very sad, he was a great chef and entertainer. RIP.
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Commented in Why Traditional TV Is in Trouble
I'd say a big problem is ads and poor-quality programming. Competitors like Netflix etc have moved with the times; traditional TV hasn't.
I almost never watch traditional TV anymore. I don't see the point of it when I can watch Netflix whenever I want, it saves my place for me in what I'm watching, and there are no ads. I literally don't have time to sit down and watch TV at a specific time when a specific show is on, nor do I have the time to bother setting up recordings, even if it's automatic after the first time. My point is, I'm busy, TV should be available when I want it, I should not have to arrange my schedule around what's on.
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Commented in Inside the Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
I don't feel the need to block them absolutely everywhere, but then again, I don't watch cable TV hardly at all, in part because of the ads. So, for me, I either don't view something or I block ads. I still don't like seeing the ads! Netflix is ideal for me, it's cheaper than cable and no ads. On the computer, the ads on news sites are really way too much and way too spammy. If I read news articles, I do it on a browser with an ad-blocker installed. Other websites that have just a few ads (e.g. the forum for the Linux distro I use), I'll view on a regular browser without an ad-blocker.
Last of all, I feel that the adblockers are providing a very valuable service to people. Not just because of their personal preferences to avoid ads, but also because of the rise of malvertising, where malware disguised as ads is finding its way onto computers. For that reason alone (avoiding malvertising), I like adblockers.