Netflix going down the drain.

5/27/18 | Total Vanity

[Fhios]

Okay, I'll say that this started happening after IMDB scrubbed their forum boards -- which I found very useful. The signal to noise ratio was pretty good, but I'm sure they dropped it so's to attract advertisement dollars. Like who wants to invest their money or give advanced information to a website that's likely to get trashed in there forums?

Now what's happening over at Netflix that I find upsetting? Films and television series that are not in English. Now I love asian films non dubbed with just Closed Captioning. And I understand that some people don't mind and that Netflix is trying to appeal to a global audience. But why do they keep it a secret until you try to watch it. I find it irritating and I'm finding more and more titles featured prominently on their front page that aren't in English.

Why can't they make a note in the mouseover info that it's dubbed or CC only and then what country it's from? Their even going as far as taking these foreign films and featuring them in their website Herald space .. the large marquee above the list of films? There's no account option to hide them and I've grown tired of it. I'll be cancelling netflix over this and their cozy deal with Obama.

[warsaw44]

Same here! Really a fun series.

I also liked the Korean series ‘ Prison Playbook ‘. Took a couple episodes for me to appreciate the format and style but I really enjoyed it.

[morphing libertarian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Avant

CEO’s wife dysfunctional ambassador

[V K Lee]

We were fortunate to be able to see one movie either way. In this respect, we knew what the story would be and able to understand the English subtitles. The second viewing we actually saw the actions take place w/o having to look two places at once. This to our benefit.

Agree that when a movie is seen in the USA the dialogue should be in a language most understand. For that matter, those who actually LIVE in the USA should all understand English and learn the language. That they do not is their own poor choice. Schools, phone operating centers, etc. would be much more effective if they were NOT required to be versed in 150 different languages.

My German grandparents were able to learn. Why not everyone?

[LouAvul]

I dumped netflix because of their pro faggot agenda. Putting it on the screen just like fags were ordinary people.

Also, I watched Mel Gibson in "Get The Gringo" and the next thing I knew I had a ton of recommendations for messycan movies.

It's a waste of money at $1 month.

[Mastador1]

Not that Netflix doesn’t offer regional content, or anything like that. Load a VPN select Canada or another country and see what is offered there vs USA.

[Mastador1]

Netflix offers regional content.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I have a low rate bandwidth so I can't get the full effect. I do appreciate that Netflix lowers the resolution rather than keeps the resolution high and has the movie start/stop a lot of times.

I like how stupid corporations are though. They haven't figured out that some people still have slower connections and they never lower the resolution. So the ads that Netflix shows at the top of the screen are all hurky jerky and useless to me. I often have to restart Netflix and get it in a mode so the ads don't show so I can actually search for movies ... which I seldom find.

[Moltke]

OK. As an aside, at least some content providers have smartened up on VPN use. The BBC iPlayer, for example, won’t work. They see a whole bunch of people with the same IP address and just blacklist that.

[SERE_DOC]

"Obama and Netflix. All I can think of are the scenes in Clockwork Orange."

or Caligula, perhaps

[right way right]

I cancelled that pile of old magazines some time back because it just seemed to embrace anything evil that comes down the pike.

[editor-surveyor]

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Movies as a whole are losers these days, so Netflix is selling cayenne sauce as sunburn lotion.
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[novemberslady]

netfix was recommending all sorts of things for me out of left field
It didn't matter what my viewing habits were-they started pushing things at me

I cancelled them after deer white folks

But would've dropped them over bambi and his beard getting the big bucks deal

They've taken enough from Americans already.

[Chickensoup]

What ads? I don’t have any ads on Netflix??

[Sam Gamgee]

I do too. Get access to British series never heard of before. And some of the Nordic series are also pretty good - although it is funny you don’t see a single Muslim face in any of those Nordic series. Like they are living in some fantasy land of white people only.

[Sam Gamgee]

You stuck with it? I gave up after episode one. Seemed so far fetched.

[Sam Gamgee]

I don’t understand the reason subscription services are traded at such large multiples over traditional companies.

[Sam Gamgee]

My sentiments are exactly like yours but the wife and I can no longer discuss homosexuality. She hates it when I use terms like “donut bumpers” ect. She thinks that sodomy is equivalent to promiscuity in general to which I say bullshit.

[mad_as_he$$]

I don’t either. crazy multiples!

[Sam Gamgee]

I am no expert, but I would be converting as many shares to cash if I ran Netflix as I can. Can’t see this as anything but a new tech bubble.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The ads I’m talking about are the movie promos that appear at the top of the browser.