Yeah I guess I’m overstating my case a bit. But still, when it was the place for legal streaming the piracy numbers were at an all time low. Turns out people don’t mind paying a fair sum for good availability and convenience.
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BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months agoAs somebody who has been using Netflix since before they even had streaming as an option, I think a lot of people really over-inflate how good the offering was on streaming unless you just loved watching reruns of cable television from the 90s and 2000s.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
snooggums@midwest.social 8 months ago
It wasn’t just the content, it was the delivery of watching whatever you chose whenever you chose and wherever you chose for a reasonable monthly fee. Even without a massive catalogue it was 1000 times better than cable and the existing services that charged stupidly high fees for on demand temporary access.
It did have a lot of movies in addition to the series though, even if I had seen most of them because they started with the popular ones.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months ago
Honestly, what I miss most about early Netflix was the insane library they had of documentaries
snooggums@midwest.social 8 months ago
Good documentaries from quality sources too! Like Planet Earth!
Not the sensationalist garbage they put out under their brand now.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months ago
Or Amazon putting out that dogshit Jim Caviezel right wing trash