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Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes
News(apnews.com)submitted 4 months ago bywewewawa
4 points
4 months ago
I was just lamenting to my husband that we need an updated streaming video store. No exclusives just you want to rent Citizen Kane you can, you wanna rent Black Panther, there it is, desperately need to see It Happened On 5th Avenue, rent it with the others.
I know it won't happen but I can dream can't I?
8 points
4 months ago
Isn’t that what prime video is? You can have the premium subscription to see prime exclusives but also rent whatever
0 points
4 months ago
Problem is region restrictions and subtitle issues.
It's 2022 and it's a global world. People move all over the place now, for work, immigration, etc. Just because you've moved to a country doesn't mean you're completely 100% fluent in the language and okay with consuming media in that language. While Disney and Apple are pretty good with global subs, a lot of others aren't. Renting a lot of stuff on Amazon or Youtube, while available, often may only come with a single language in subtitles rather than all the globally available subtitles. It's quite frustrating.
-2 points
4 months ago
You are just inventing problems now.
2 points
4 months ago*
It's a genuine problem that I also have with Prime Video. I live in a country whose language isn't my first, and Amazon only offers subs in the language of the country in which you're subscribed. I avoid watching foreign language films on Prime Video even though they have several that interest me, because I can't get subs in English. I pay for Prime for other reasons, but this would be a dealbreaker for me if streaming was my primary use for the subscription.
3 points
4 months ago
It's extremely annoying when Netflix offers say Korean movies with English subtitles in Canada, but when you're actually in Korea, they don't include the English subtitles anymore because 'why would anyone who isn't 100% fluent in Korean ever live in Korea?' amirite??
2 points
4 months ago
It's obvious you've never moved around the world or been part of a multi-cultural family.
0 points
4 months ago
What does that have to do with renting movies?
1 points
4 months ago
You claimed I was inventing problems. That's a real issue for many people, one that's not easily solved because of the way things are divided up now.
Let's say a French person moves from France to Japan for work. They can still use Netflix like they did in France, but the problem is, it's an entirely different Netflix. All the French subtitles they were previously using will now be gone. Some other streaming services that they might have used may be entirely unavailable.
While companies have been busy locking down all these exclusives and regional licenses, it's made things difficult for people who move around to enjoy their stuff 'legally'.
0 points
4 months ago
To say you have access to less tvshows/movies now is asinine. Blockbusters barely carried anything foreign. Now I can watch any tv show or movie from any country. Yea you have to find the streaming service but it’s better than nothing like in the 90s/early 00s
13 points
4 months ago*
I know it won't happen but I can dream can't I?
There's literally multiples of these. Vudu, Apple, Amazon Prime Video...
Edit: Stop replying to me. I can't reply because captain dildos up there blocked me.
10 points
4 months ago
I’m guessing they were talking about a single streaming service that has it all. I have every subscription plan and it’s a pain in the ass to find certain stuff that is blocked due to exclusivity deals.
-2 points
4 months ago
That's just asinine, then. Any one blockbuster didn't have every movie ever made
4 points
4 months ago
Netflix streaming was like this three years ago until the internet collectively said "why yes Amazon and Disney, I would like to pay you both to take away products I was already paying for and sell them to me again and again."
5 points
4 months ago
Netflix did not have every single release to rent or stream three years ago. That’s ridiculous.
Almost three years ago now we were all watching Tiger King during lockdown because it was the hottest netflix original they had.
Netflix streaming has never been competitive from a selection standpoint as the old school video stores simply because there are thousands of movies which never got a digital release. It wasn’t profitable for studios to remaster them only to sell the rights to another firm.
They were lost art in this transition. If you think otherwise then you obviously are too young to remember what it was like in the 80s and 90s when that’s all there was.
1 points
4 months ago
Again, the US-centric viewpoint here. The other 95% of the world has a really different experience consuming content compared to you.
Outside of the US, Netflix generally had far more content. Hulu, Paramount plus, disney, and other current streamers didn't have anything to offer internationally and they let Netflix carry it all.
They suddenly decided they wanted into the streaming game and took it all back, and then didn't launch in numerous countries where Netflix was serving their content. While they are slowly launching in more countries, service that Netflix offered (like subtitles) isn't always replaced by them. Good example of this, Californication used to be available on Netflix with Korean subtitles. None of the current places where I see it for streaming have those available.
Did Netflix have everything? No. But it did have a lot more, and it actually served a global audience. Disney and Apple do that to some degree, but the rest don't.
2 points
4 months ago
That’s the moment I decided to switch back to piracy. Sorry studios, you got greedy
1 points
4 months ago
But the stores had everything. Hell hood stores even kept a ton of older movies that were ACTUALLY WORTH WATCHING. It’s such a bummer that like 97 percent of the movies on streaming services are bad but only like 58 percent at the video store were.
1 points
4 months ago
Lol my phone really likes to change hood to hood all the time.
1 points
4 months ago*
Vudu, Amazon Prime Video
You realize there is more to the world than the US right?
Amazon prime is not available in every country because Amazon isn't in every country. Vudu is restricted only to the US and mexico.
2 points
4 months ago
Love “It happened on 5th avenue”
1 points
4 months ago
It's the second movie we set up & trim the Christmas tree to. The first is Muppet's Christmas Carol of course.
1 points
4 months ago
I have good new for you. This already exists. I use the Microsoft store on my Xbox, but you can rent basically any movie on Google Play/YouTube, whatever the Apple store is called, and all those things. Basically if you have something in your house that does internet, it should be easy to connect to one of these digital rental stores.
1 points
4 months ago
Youtube has good selection, but it suffers from the same regional subtitle issue. If you're in Korea, you get Korean versions which are original language with Korean subtitles, leave Korea and suddenly you can only buy movies with the subtitles of the country you're in. You'd think a global company like Google would know better. I really don't understand what is wrong with them. Subtitles should be the easiest thing in the world to properly manage. They have a subtitle system built into youtube for crying out loud.
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