VOD Netflix/Streaming Services - Page 162

passingbat · 11-01-2016, 22:10

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Originally Posted by zantarous

I am not sure how you say they are getting complacent? All companies have to raise prices, the service was dirt cheap £5.99, they raised prices but told existing customers they would keep paying the old price for 18 months (I can't remember the exact time frame).

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Well, Netflix's price rise since launch has been lower than VM's TV component over the same period of time. I joined the day of the UK launch and am still paying the same price.

zantarous · 12-01-2016, 00:36

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Ridiculous 6 now thats good.

You are not going to line every show or movie they do, they have to get some cheap tat in there and there is a audience that likes that sort of stuff. Also it's been one of Netflix's highest rated videos.

denphone · 12-01-2016, 06:28

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Ridiculous 6 now thats good.

Now now MM behave yourself.

steveh · 13-01-2016, 13:54

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Originally Posted by Horizon

But I don't understand your first point about Netflix's delivery infrastructure, what infrastructure? They don't own any delivery methods that I'm aware of, ie cable/telecom cos.

Dedicated fibre to ISPs, CDN boxes in ISPs, neat distribution tech that takes a raw video and encodes it for a variety of devices and bitrates and gets it to where it is needed in the world on request, some very efficient proprietary video streaming servers which do adaptive bitrate better than most, plus the agreements with ISPs and some in-progress patents on all of this. While much is replicable by new entrants that takes time and Netflix can do it more efficiently for now. For example, look at how long it took Now TV to iron out the problems using off-the-shelf kit or services like UKTV Play which many months down the line still have problems inserting ads into the stream and being able to restart the programme after.

This explains some of the delivery side: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/the-cou...ldwide-launch/

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Originally Posted by Horizon

But again, I don't understand your remark about mobile. We still have mobile companies.

I mean in the way that handset makers and telcos have ceded control and revenue to Apple and Google. Those two are the ones making money off mobile media sales like music and apps while WhatsApp now does more messages a day than the global SMS system. Despite their attempt to retain some of the video pie, as I wrote some time back I think broadband / cable TV companies will end up just as pipes for video too.

denphone · 14-01-2016, 17:54

Netflix 'unblockers' to be banned.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a6812711.html

johnathome · 14-01-2016, 19:08

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Originally Posted by denphone

Netflix 'unblockers' to be banned.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a6812711.html

Yeah, good luck with that Netflix! BBC tried something similar with iPlayer and it worked for a day or two.

theone2k10 · 14-01-2016, 19:32

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Originally Posted by denphone

Netflix 'unblockers' to be banned.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a6812711.html

This old horse again? Good luck with that netflix as john said others have tried and failed, if netflix somehow are succesful (if this isn't just the independant fantasy writing again) then netflix i think would lose a lot of subscribers.

jcm193 · 14-01-2016, 19:45

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Originally Posted by theone2k10

This old horse again? Good luck with that netflix as john said others have tried and failed, if netflix somehow are succesful (if this isn't just the independant fantasy writing again) then netflix i think would lose a lot of subscribers.

Hopefully companies like unotelly would be able to get around it anyway

muppetman11 · 14-01-2016, 19:53

https://media.netflix.com/en/company...global-service

toady · 14-01-2016, 19:57

As long as VPNs still work then I'm good

steveh · 14-01-2016, 20:29

This is an interesting snapshot of quite how much you get for your Netflix sub in each country: http://www.finder.com/netflix-usa-vs-world-content

muppetman11 · 15-01-2016, 12:35

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Originally Posted by johnathome

Yeah, good luck with that Netflix! BBC tried something similar with iPlayer and it worked for a day or two.

It's actually easier than you think , all Netflix need do is only allow access to the country you sign up in.

passingbat · 15-01-2016, 13:16

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

It's actually easier than you think , all Netflix need do is only allow access to the country you sign up in.

If that is the case, then it means that Netflix have never wanted to do it before. And I suspect that they don't want to do it now, but have come under too much pressure from content providers, who have always been opposed to Netflix's lack of action on it.

The question is, is the official statement to appease content providers, and implementation will be slower than suggested, or have the content providers won?

toady · 15-01-2016, 13:16

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

It's actually easier than you think , all Netflix need do is only allow access to the country you sign up in.

Wonder if they are going to lose a lot of subscribers if they do this, Limiting users to a single country makes the service less desirable

denphone · 15-01-2016, 13:21

Personally l don't think they will hardly lose any subscribers.