Coming soon: A new Windows
app experience<p>The update includes access to live events, compatibility with ad- supported plans, and more! Downloads will no longer be supported, but you can continue to watch TV shows and movies offline on a supported mobile device.
All these streaming downloads are still worse experience than torrent. Can't download 4K (and can't stream one because it thinks your connection is too slow). Downloads expire in 30 days. And let's not forget geolocked content, hard to search catalog, lack of subtitles, etc.
I think nobody’s discussed yet just how few people likely use the Windows Store app version of Netflix.<p>Windows has basically no marketshare on tablets compared to iOS and Android. You can kind of sort of consider the Surface Pro to be one but those users are using them much more like traditional PCs.<p>The Windows Store not even that popular within Windows itself.<p>I’m not that surprised that Netflix isn’t prioritizing support for features on that platform.
Netflix's value proposition is no longer what it was even a decade ago.<p>Competitors and alternatives to 'netflix-&-chill' exist at lower price points.<p>I'm not sure why folks are still giving Netflix money.
I'm a Windows developer.<p>If any Netflix engs would like help supporting this on Windows like their other platforms, I would be happy to help out.
How awful way to announce a redesign, is dark comedy a la Coen Brothers.<p>For the affected users who use that feature, at least is available on the browser? For at least Chrome desktop on Windows should work, not sure about Firefox. YouTube Premium just recently enable the feature for Firefox (or Firefox for YouTube, don't know).
Pretty sad. They are so lucky it's impossible to run something else on Windows that can record what is on a screen into a file. If such a capability existed, what would they do? /s
My interpretation is that this change is the result of the "Recall" feature on Windows which captures the activity on the machine... does the timing line up for that to be plausible?
It's not that we can't afford to pay for the content, it's that we don't want to pay the amount they want to charge. The cost/price disfunction in entertainment is amazing, you would think by now it would be trending closer to cost, but no: *wood, Bolly and Holly, is owned by Lawyers and Financiers who love that massive 3x speculative gain component, and don't want to settle for an ROI which matches the real world 7% longterm across all investment. The thing is, that across hit and miss, they probably DO match the trend. But this is so much more exciting for them, than simply producing material with a lower ROI expectation.<p>Chasing "gone with the wind" box office success is more gooder better than chasing "I love lucy" success.<p>I sometimes wish that the idea a film was a box office smash had never taken hold, and that movies were 10c entry and bring your own coke was fine. Watch at home is now trending up to a spend per month which exceeds the amount I ever used to spend to go and watch the same material in a cinema.<p>I seriously miss FTA. I even miss the shitty ads we had when it was 3-4 FTA channels. I miss the sense of communal alignment when people watched entertainment broadly inside the same window of time. I miss the back-pressure that a TV station doing binge watch has to actually think about it, rather than just feed one ep. into another.<p>I kinda miss the midnight switch-off and the vanishing dot in the middle with the Ooooooooooooooooooo RF tone.