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I don't think Netflix had a choice.

Who is selling good content anymore? HBO? They run their own thing now. Paramount? They've got their own thing now. Disney? They've got their own thing now. MGM? They're streaming through Amazon Prime now.

Netflix was forced into this position by competition, not by internal decisions.

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Netflix surely has a choice: to make quality movie series instead of the crap they push now. I'm the kind of person who used to watch the whole movie even if it was crap but netflix succeded in breaking this compulsive behaviour. It's just too much low quality content and the worst thing is that I can't even filter it out. Maybe there are few good movies but I'm not willing to watch all the crap just to find the very few diamonds in the mud/swamp. I think at some point people just give up and then avoid netflix like a plague. I still have a netflix subscription because it's shared with several family members but as soon as I get the OK from them I'm done with Netflix.

You’re not the 80%+ of consumers that eat up the cheap stuff and love it.

I’m talking about original content. Not licensed. Netflix can buy a new series pitch the exact same way HBO and Paramount and Amazon Prime can.

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