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This would be strange if Netflix didn't have enough of easily accessible good content.
When after finishing work we want to watch “a movie”, it's much easier to choose a Netflix recommendation than to do a half an hour reasearch online and then wait for the movie to be downloaded.
Now add to this time, energy, and expertise needed for looking up and trying pirating options, figuring out technical aspects, paying for a VPN, doing maintenance… Very few can and are willing to do all that.
Yeah but the problem is, I was watching a lot of really bad movies on Netflix, just because they didn't have anything I wanted to watch. So I was sitting there, feeling bored or annoyed or disgusted by the shit movies... I actually felt depressed by what I watched even!
So I was like... I'm paying for this, and I feel like shit most of the time when watching it.
No more.
That's fair, if this was your case. No point in paying for something you don't like.
As much as I hate old titles disappearing, I also enjoy the new content Netflix offers. To each their own, I guess.
Netflix produced content is either garbage or cancelled after first season. (or both)
The only quality content Netflix has is made by someone else and more than 20 years ago.
Yeah everyone has different taste. I actually like British TV a lot more then American too.
The people who don't know how I understand completely. But honestly people who have the know-how are underestimating how easy it has got. I can torrent a movie at a much higher quality than Netflix will even stream to my PC and do it all within 5 minutes.
Now imagine you have a family that likes to watch TV in the living room and not in your room.
So you download the movie to your Plex or Jellyfin server and watch it in living room. I do exactly this all the time.
Right, I use Plex now too. However, it only has things that I already downloaded. So if we don't plan, we end up watching something on Netflix instead of spending extra time on looking+downloading+going back and forth between rooms.
Well Plex soon is adding support for buying and renting stuff.
"download this app, create an account, I'll add you as a friend, off you go"
It's literally as easy as Netflix in that scenario.
I'm curious to hear more about this. What's the app?
Plex
Jellyfin for the win!
hell, I'm across the country at my parent's place and got them a movie by remoting into my home pc to start a torrent and had it populatred in my Plex server and streaming at full bluray quality 4k hdr in less time that it took for them to get popcorn ready.
they never even knew that i had to do any of that. i just told them "yeah, I'll get that set up while you get snacks"
Lol that hasn't been an issue for at least a decade.
But does Netflix even have good movies? Like I think it'd be easier to do exactly that but on HBO Max or Disney Plus, or a TV show on Hulu.
Weird. I can find and download a movie in a couple of minutes. It's almost as easy as learning how to download and navigate Netflix.
Pirating movies has never been easier, but wait there's more, you can just stream them for free too.
There's even places you can buy a box for a one time fee, and have all channels and services free. Or get a subscription that offers every service and channel on earth.
It's so easy my 80 yr old father can do it.
There's no maintenance, no technical expertise needed, you don't even need a VPN.
The only thing Netflix really offers is convenience and legality.
Eh, you don't need to do all that. But I also have the same problem with the research stuff even if I use Netflix. A lot of the recommendations are not great for me, and low quality stuff. Once in a while something good will pop up though.
Usually I write down recommendations people give me in conversation then I refer back to that list when I'm looking for something to watch. If it's not on Netflix, well...
For me it's usually hear about a few things that could be interesting throughout the day and download them while I shower after work. A 5gb movie comes through in a few minutes so I don't even feel it. It's usually 2 or 3 at a time, and since I'd still be going in blind on Netflix recs, it doesn't seem much worse.