Posted on 01/21/2022 6:02:42 AM PST by knighthawk
Netflix dashed hopes for a quick rebound after forecasting weak first-quarter subscriber growth on Thursday, sending shares sinking nearly 20 percent and wiping away most of its remaining pandemic-fueled gains from 2020, just a week after raising prices by up to $2 a month.
The streaming platform projected it would add 2.5 million customers for the first quarter of 2022 - January through March - less than half of the 5.9 million analysts had initially forecast.
Netflix tempered its growth expectations, citing the late arrival of anticipated content, such as the second season of Bridgerton, and the film The Adam Project.
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Based on your statements, I would guess you have spent lots of time watching TV. Have you considered actually creating a good script?
“When you stop for a moment and assess, you find that you’re paying 8-10 bucks a month for ONE show. They’ve got 99% other trash that you don’t want and will never want. That’s not just Netflix, that’s everybody.”
Absolutely. We dumped all of them years ago. Direct TV, Dish, and we do not support streaming even though we could. We went old school with a couple big C-Band dishes and now get Free To Air satellite. We get 8 channels that give us plenty to watch, and if there is nothing on we go get some work done on our endless projects towards being self sufficient.
But we could live without any TV at all if we had to.
Heh, heh, heh.
Yep, good for you. There really is a huge difference between wants and needs. They are going to end up taking it all away anyhow. May as well start cherry picking now at their loss on our terms rather than their terms. Good to see I am not the only one who sees the writing on the wall.
The “originals” on streaming services are extraordinarily low quality.
An antenna and free streaming services is all you need...more than you need. Plus we now have access to every radio station in the world, not just locally, due to streaming, for free. Pointless to pay for more.
Netflix should have never had a market cap of $45 billion let alone lose that much.
Nice idea but not United States Steel so-to-speak. Netflix is a service company no better than a tool rental place or CBS. They don’t make a thing.
With all the free online content, who needs netflix anyway?
FWIW
I left Netflix when they employed a person whose name I have forgotten because she was suffering from a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome so severe that her celebrity lasted maybe a minute longer than Andy Warhol allotted to everyone.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is the leading cause of career death for so-called comediennes, Kathy Griffin whose name I still remember would be case in point.
Anyways this no-namer was the host witch at that Washington Press Club roast they used to have.
She unmercifully attacked Sara Huckabee on the basis of her appearance.
I cancelled immediately and haven’t not regretted it.
My only issue with that strategy is that you now have propaganda filled programming as your only options.
With Netflix or other streaming services, 95% of it is propaganda but you have the 5% of old shows and movies from the 70’s-90’s or an occasional new show or movie that is not complete brainwashing trash.
With over the air TV, your only options are filled with newspeak, lies, indoctrination, Hollyweird values, etc... and not to mention the commercials. On the rare occasion that I see a commercial, there is a 80% chance it is either trying to get me to ask my doctor to give me some type of medicine or telling me how good of a person I would be if I took the Covid vaccine.
If I sit in front of the TV, I am either watching Rogan on Spotify, one of the 4 or 5 old TV series on Netflix that I care for or I am watching YouTube videos that I choose to watch. YouTube has commercials but you only need to watch 5 seconds of them before you can skip it.
Exactly.
Like Cen-Tejas, it was as if one day I woke up and was looking for something, and I found a section for the queer programming that I hadn’t seen before.
I had already left before they announced their Obama relationship, but that would have made me hotfoot it out of there.
Are you talking about FTA Satellite? Or normal local air TV and radio? If normal local air TV you are absolutely right. And we would be absolutely fine with that ourselves. But because we are so remote, there just are no TV transmissions close enough to get even with the biggest of antennas and signal boosters. We did have some before they went digital. As soon as they went digital we got zip... Wasted a lot of money and time trying. That is when we went old school big dish.
PRIME is eating their lunch.
PRIME offers better original programming, and multiple other channels/streaming content.
Netflix offers only Netflix.
Start censoring and nobody will patronize you.
For most of my life, I have largely been a live and let live person.
But as you said, now, I sit down with my wife to watch a movie I have never seen. As sure as clockwork, there is some homosexual theme that gets introduced.
That is generally it for me. I get up and leave at that point.
It finally got through to me a few years back that “live and let live” is no longer an option, and I am not the person who removed that option.
The Left, with their “silence is violence” mind set, want you not to just be silent or even mouth the words, they want you to openly share and celebrate their delusions, and things like homosexuality, transgenderism, and any number of other things will force you to stand up and cheer or be cast into a subhuman group of “Untermenschen” (the German word was used explicitly for the aspersions it casts on those who would like to apply it to us)
Yes. Bypass the streamers. They're corrupt. They occasionally make good movies and I'll watch them when they do, but if you have the chance, support independent, non-Borg filmmakers. They have their problems as well, but the point is to preserve and expand an ecosystem that at least gives independents an opportunity and that allows diverse voices to flourish.
It's not hard once you actually think to look; if I can do it, any idiot can do it. I have watched four movies in the last couple of months direct from A24 (the "screening room") and Bleeker House. The Sundance Film Festival surrendered to COVID two weeks ago and went all online, and I picked up several screenings there. (It's underway now. At this point, most of the feature films are sold out, though there are still shorts, documentaries, and experimental films to be had if that rings your chimes. It actually wouldn't hurt to spend $20 bucks for one film just to check out the website and demystify the process.) I'm sure that seismic tremble you felt beneath your feet was my shift in buying preferences shaking the foundation of the industry ... but seriously, if millions of us started doing the same, we could shake up the game -- especially if we also cancelled the streaming subscriptions to cut off the Borg's passive income stream. The passive income from disengaged casual viewers is what allows them to go off into loony tune land, because passive subscribers who took out a subscription years ago and forgot about it aren't the same as active viewers who make a conscious quality-driven decision to purchase a specific ticket/screening.
The A24 Screening Room is event programming; selected films will open there prior to their release on a streaming platform, and the availability is just for one day so you have to be paying attention. But for something I want to see, I'd rather pay the production company directly and cut out the middleman. I could probably get the film cheaper on a streaming platform if I waited a bit, but I'm willing to pay a bit more as my invisibly small contribution to diversifying the distribution chain. I also have a New Year's resolution to see my most-anticipated films in theaters this year (if they get theatrical releases at all). I don't want six woke global conglomerates, all of them vertically and horizontally integrated, to become the quasi-monopolistic gatekeepers.
You may have misunderstood our source. We don’t have regular terrestrial air TV reception where we are. So we are bypassing the local editing and propaganda. We have free satellite feeds, before they get to the local networks to be edited. Most of the channels we get are from Christian Networks.
They have fantastic conservative news and retro 40s, 50s, 60’s and 70s programming. The few channels we do get are all right on the money for what we would want. And the closed news feeds are unedited, so we get to see events and such before they are edited, commentary added, or propaganda tossed in. We were probably one of the very few who were able to watch the Jan 6th event live in real time as it happened.
We had 6 uninterrupted closed network feeds broadcasting from different locations and angles simultaneously as it happened. These are not meant for the general public, and very few got any of this after they edited it for rebroadcasting. It was a rare opportunity because of our particular situation.
Ozark season 4 starts today
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