Netflix is crap in most countries of the world. Not worth the money.
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Will Discovery be on Netflix after season 1 airs?
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I understand why, but it does annoy me. I'm ridiculously behind on a lot of shows at UK Netflix takes an ice age to get anything new. The Expanse is my current annoyance as despite what was said, we're still waiting.
I've had that more with Amazon Prime. When I last moved house I started watching films I'd never seen. The Hangover was high on the list of recommendations, but for some reason they only had the second one. Not one I overly enjoyed, but I got half way through and fell asleep.
A month later I went back to finish it. By that point the second was gone, but the third was available.
With Netflix the only one that really bothered me was Iron Man as for months it had all the Avengers films. Apart from Iron Man 1 & 3. Just the second one :/
Hulu runs some things that are contracted to BBC America. I'm currently watching the first season of Space: 1999.
I went out and bought the discs for that, only to find I couldn't stomach more than a few episodes of it.
I went out and bought the discs for that, only to find I couldn't stomach more than a few episodes of it.
I've watched the first six from season one. While there is a lot wrong with the show, I also find there is a lot right with it. Definitely a product of its time.
It is scratching my "fun" sci-fi itch.
Voyager's "Friendship One" definitely owes a bit to "Voyager's Return".
Isn't CBS already pulling some legacy shows from streaming to reserve for All Access? I thought I heard that anyway, if so, I wouldn't hold out hope for DSC.
Apparently, MGM are doing the CBS All Access thing with Stargate and are starting a service called Stargate Command to host them (sounds like I'm making that up but I'm not).
I don't think the show is a ''co-production'' between BBC America and Netflix. It's just that Netflix secured streaming rights to it outside the US, and gets to brand it a ''Netflix Original'' in those markets. This does not guarantee the studio/production company will sell it to them in the US.
The reaction to Netflix's success by the established media companies here in the US has been extreme envy and jealousy. And they have actively sought to diminish that success by cutting Netflix's access to their content by creating streaming services of their own, combined with seeking less lucrative deals with NF's rivals.
Hulu, owned by Fox, Disney/ABC, Comcast/NBC, and as of last August 2016, Time Warner, was created to bolster the network's supremacy by offering exclusive in season streams of currently airing shows, 5 episodes at a time. After failed attempts to sell the service (no one wanted to buy Hulu unless they could guarantee continued access to the network's current line-up of shows), the owners are starting to position it more as a rival to NF, granting it programming that they have refused to license to NF. Fox has declined re-upping their contract with Netflix for a large package of content, and all of it will be moving exclusively to Hulu in the coming months. Time Warner will be launching a DC comics themed streaming service next year (their 5th service thus far), and Netflix loses Justice League and Young Justice this month (the CW shows are under a different contract so those will remain in the US). Warners denies them reruns of the old Full House, selling it to Hulu instead, despite the Fuller House reboot they sold to NF....
Netflix subscribers outside the US think their versions lack recent, newer movies. I guess it's ''the grass in greener in someone else's yard'' problem. In the US, most of the newer movies are exclusively licensed to other pay tv services, blocking NF from also offering them. But beyond our borders, Netflix can often acquire the rights to many films they can't get their hands on, depending on whether or not the local pay tv/channels manage to secure them. In that area, those of us stateside are equally envious of the content that shows up on many of the international services.
Things are going to change for NF which is why they are focusing more on original shows. In the initial contracts several of the content providers sold the streaming rights to NF very cheaply because at the time they didn't see the streaming rights as being that valuable. Now that netflix has shown they are valuable when these things are coming up for renewal many are either shopped elsewhere or the price for NF is going up a lot.
So I expect over the next year or two we are going to see more and more of the older TV shows leave netflix.
So I expect over the next year or two we are going to see more and more of the older TV shows leave netflix.
Yep, which is why I canceled my Netflix subscription a few months ago. I have little interest in their original content, and the non-original content has either already disappeared or will disappear eventually.
I wouldn't say it's down to envy or jealousy, just good business. Streaming is becoming the new standard, so why would anyone give away the rising fortunes to a third party when they have the tools to create their own network and maximise their own profit?
It's the way forward. Not quite pioneering as they're not the first content provider to do this, but a step in the right direction.
Exactly. In the near term we are going to see more streaming services not less. Then eventually there will likely be some consolidation but we are not there yet.
I wonder if Discovery will be on ITunes after the first season airs. Now that I have an Apple TV, buying season passes for shows is doable.
Indeed! To me it just looks like the next generation of satellite/cable providers. These services are so cheap and accessible in comparison, I can see us getting to a point of picking content providers to stream directly instead of cable packages; and packages like cable or satellite slowly dying off.
A long way off, but the shift seems to be beginning already.
When it's providing their content to their own service over Netflix, that's fine. Sucks for us that don't want to subscribe to dozens of services to get the handful of shows or movies we want.... But there have been multiple instances of selling to a non corporate sibling, in order to disadvantage NF. That's when it gets irritating.
Haven't read the first three pages, but I'd tend to doubt it. The entire point of putting it on CBSAA is to lure subscribers with exclusive/original content. Doesn't help if it's available on Netflix.
That said, it'll surely be on DVD/BR, so maybe a year delay on Netflix isn't a crazy notion. But if I were CBS, I'd try to make it as exclusive as I could.
That said, it'll surely be on DVD/BR, so maybe a year delay on Netflix isn't a crazy notion. But if I were CBS, I'd try to make it as exclusive as I could.
Just cough up the $6 and play by the rules... maybe in November if you really want to save money, ....you'll be able to stream all 15 episodes for $12. Not a big investment.
I wouldn't be so sure that it'll be on Blu-Ray/4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray. There are quite a few streaming-only television shows that haven't made their way over. Even if it does, I wouldn't expect for a couple of years.
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