Netflix is shuttering its original business

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The days of yore, Blockbuster, Netflix DVD in the mail, Redbox. Actually saw a Redbox the other day, and thought to myself (how quaint).
 
Ruh-roe, on the password crackdown. The only goddamn service where I actually use someone else’s account for a change.
 
rdrr said:
The days of yore, Blockbuster, Netflix DVD in the mail, Redbox. Actually saw a Redbox the other day, and thought to myself (how quaint).
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There's still one just down the street from me. I didn't think they were facing extinction yet.
 
I continued to get DVDs for longer than most people specifically because new releases were always available on DVD and it was spotty when they would be available on streaming, on which services, and some never went to streaming or it was many, many months later.
 
mac_in_tosh said:
If only the quality of movies kept up with the technology for viewing them.
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I just don't get this, they seem to have endless money to pay for these productions and actors just to make really shitty movies. You would think they would allocate some of that towards decent scripts.
 
Eric said:
I just don't get this, they seem to have endless money to pay for these productions and actors just to make really shitty movies. You would think they would allocate some of that towards decent scripts.
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Perhaps that's the result of password "sharing" now being so pervasive, resulting in reduced revenue, and thus lower quality movies.
 
Eric said:
I just don't get this, they seem to have endless money to pay for these productions and actors just to make really shitty movies. You would think they would allocate some of that towards decent scripts.
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Flops are, at least, a write-off. But the production companies do have a (metaphorical) book of movie-making standards and formulas kind of like how reporters use the Chicago Manual of Style to guide their writing. They just keep framing concepts by the book and hoping for one out of hundreds to pay off. Kind of like throwing fecal matter at the wall.

In a decade or so, you will have your own personal moviebox. You will tell the AI what kind of story you want and it will build a plot, construct the script and render the movie, perhaps drawing from the internets, perhaps using locally stored data/tempates.

There is an old aphorism that says there are something like 36 possible plots. Some exact, small number, obfuscated by the wealth of details that can overlie them.
 
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