$16 a month is less than the cost for one two-hour movie in my area.
I definitely watch more than two hours per month of Netflix.
Its a bargain.
Try browsing their website for a little while. It’s awful. And, as I mentioned earlier a lot of people have complained, a lot of articles have been written, a lot of threads have been started and they’ve refused to even so much as given the option to turn it off. I want to say that actually stated they weren’t going to stop it.
I haven’t used it on a phone so I can’t speak to that, but their website isn’t more exciting or dynamic. It’s a nightmare to navigate. If you do a quick google search for something along the lines of ‘netflix autopreview’ you’ll see I’m not exactly alone here.
If it was simply to make the site more fun, they wouldn’t have any reason not to give all the people that don’t like it a way to shut it off.
GOT is in HBO, right? You can get HBO and stream it directly from their site without needing to subscribe to it via a traditional cable provider. You can also get it through Amazon and Hulu, I believe. And they all charge around $15/mo or so.
Then, of course (with any of them) you can unsubscribe as soon as the season is over.
Well, it may be driving traffic the way they want despite how many complainers there are. Maybe they’ll change eventually. But autoplay vids are pretty common all over the place, even though everyone hates it. CNN has autoplay vids at the top of every damn article and we can be rather certain it isn’t because someone is paying them money to do so.
I am seriously considering cancelling Netflix because I seem to have wanted everything I am interested in. I don’t like zombies and other horror type shows. Everything they are making now seems to be very dark (and not just Netflix)
I am waiting for the final season of Orange is the New Black (which has been going downhill in quality) and if don’t find anything else I want to watch on Netflix then switching to HBO Now and Showtime through Hulu. There are a few shows on CBS I would like to watch but I am not sure if subscribing would be worth it (as in do they have all the episodes of “the Good life”, SWAT etc or only the current ones)
I don’t want to steer this away from the OP, but I watch primarily OLD movies, foreign movies, silent movies.
I loved the old Netflix that would mail you things like Cabiria (1914), Island of Lost Souls (1933), Murnau’s Sunrise, Lon Chaney Sr flicks, and any Luis Bunuel movie.
When I go to Netflix on my teevee, they offer me crap made during the past 20 years. I am not interested in watching TV shows, either.
What’s the best way to stream the kind of archaic, pretentious, B&W shit I like? There’s got to be SOMETHING out there for people like me.
None of that demonstrates I’m in the minority. What are the absolute number of complaints relative to users? Really, some people get annoyed about some pretty trivial things. I barely notice the autoplay videos since I have the audio turned off. Maybe you need to switch to decaf.
That would be my guess. Companies like Netflix do market analysis. They probably have found that the number of complaints don’t warrant changing the practice.
Ya know, it could be that just being in the habit of routinely browsing with your audio turned off PUTS you in the minority.
No worries, I’m right with you in that habit. Just sayin’. 
Hunchback of Notre Dame with Lon Chaney Sr.
Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel (1929)
Most significant movies (and a lot of minor ones) that are now public domain can be found on Youtube and other sites for free. This goes for most movies up until the 1950s. Youtube has a whole channel of Timeless Classic Movies. There’s also sites like Free Classic Movies. There’s lots of others. To the best of my knowledge these movies are public domain and legal. (Youtube seems to do a pretty good job of removing anything posted where there is a copyright issue.)
I used to get such movies on DVD from Netflix. Once I realized they were generally available for free I stopped wasting a pick on them. The main reason to get the DVD would be the commentary or extras, but increasingly rental versions of DVDs no longer contain these.
If so, it probably means that most people aren’t bothered by the audio.
Thank you, Colibri.
Tip: search for “full movie” so you don’t just get a lot of clips and trailers. Sometimes you have to go to later pages on Google to find the actual movie. And check that the running time is about that of the original movie.
Now…about porn…
Moviewise the streaming has never been about the movies … its the tv shows that you can binge that support the streaming
Actually the whole things a happy accident …see when they started the streaming a lot of places said “you can’t stream the movies” but they negotiated standard tv rerun deals for cheap but put the whole series on at once and discovered people didn’t mind watching all 4 seasons of the original roswell or their favorite canceled/finished series and since there wasn’t enough episodes for syndication cw/wb ect gladly dumped all their flops for whatever they could get Netflix to pay for them
there was a Netflix service like that ike but apparently, it went out of biz …
in a thread about the disney+ i mentioned that TCM should make a streaming thing and someone said they and someone else had a partnership service but it was considered expensive and flopped… personally id pay for it tho …
It is going to drive people back to piracy. The availability of easy and inexpensive methods to get the media people want led to a decline in piracy rates. Exclusive content across a wide range of services will push people back to piracy. Most of the news articles which discuss the explosion of streaming services, and the consumer frustration with them, fail to acknowledge that one of the biggest competitors the streaming services face is pirating.
One major advantage of the streaming services over cable is the ease which you can start and stop subscriptions. I think staying on one for a while, watching what you want, cancelling and switching to another, and coming back in six months or a year is a good strategy. I’m sure if it becomes common the streaming services will start doing contracts, discounts, and other things to try and stop the behavior.
Those are the same link.
I’m waiting for someone to get the idea of: “hey I can put all of these on a box/chip all at once and then figure out a way they can pay me every month for it then I can figure out how to get them to lease access to me for the various sites…”
And someones going to make millions for guess what?
flippin reinventing the cable company and no one will realize it for about 15 or so years …
Sorry. Free Classic Movies.
Hey, pal, do you really want to admit you can’t find free porn on the internet?
Get yourself a Roku. Last time I scrolled through the channel list, there were several free channels for that sort of thing that didn’t require a cable subscription. B&W Theater is one example.