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That's the tragedy with streaming and pay-per-view online systems. Piracy is still has the better catalog.

I would gladly pay 3, even 4 times more for a Netflix that would have everything.

The other problem is that netflix physical had both a better catalog and better quality so digital is a massive regression for them. Their physical system was a hack that exploited existing systems (retail pricing for dvds, cheap postal service) so it was too good to last but it is disappointing to see products regress.

it still exists....

yes, but hard to scale outside the US, and studios were hostile to it because it didn't pay them enough, so they pressured Netflix to stop promoting it and adopt streaming. It exists the same way AOL did EOL but it is not a factor in future growth.

Only in the USA. Netflix worldwide has moved to streaming.

Yeah don't worry you'll be paying that for the same Netflix you have now within the next 5-10 years.

Or paying 4x price for 4x services that have more content in aggregate.

Yeah you can have all the channels you could want with nothing to watch... How's that? Only 66.60.

That tiny convenience would likely come at the monumental cost of a single corporation toll-boothing all content and monopolizing the production industry with divine levels of clout.

I'd rather watch whatever original content Netflix produces than feed the media giants that got us into this fragmented, user-hostile mess in the first place.

Netflix would like nothing more than to become another media giant.

So far, Netflix has been nowhere near as user-hostile as the others. I wish them well until then.

> Piracy is still has the better catalog.

Piracy still delivers a better product too unless you're using edge or a netflix apps.

DRM continues to harm paying customers.

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