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Saw Medici: Lorenzo the Magnificent. Awesome as always!
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Started watching Evil Genius.
Highly recommend it if you are into true crime stories/documentaries.
Weird but really interesting.
I finished it a month ago. Was very intriguing but just did not have that closure. Atleast for me.
There's a new show called You on Netflix a few people have mentioned to me, anyone seen it
LOVED it, this was a really good TV series, I watched it one weekend.......it was a bit disturbing because of the guy's obsession but a really good watch, I recommend it.
[MENTION=137142]JaDed[/MENTION] Man Like Mobeen has me in stitches, I can't do my normal routine and watch something while I eat) just on episode 3 so far lmao the individual episodes are actually made quite well to beyond the comedy aspect
[MENTION=137142]JaDed[/MENTION] Man Like Mobeen has me in stitches, I can't do my normal routine and watch something while I eat) just on episode 3 so far lmao the individual episodes are actually made quite well to beyond the comedy aspect
Recently binge watched The Bodyguard on Netflix. Really good thriller and exactly the kind of show I like. Becoming a fan of British crime thrillers. They do serious shows well. Just don't watch their comedy.
Just watched Selection Day.
The series follows the life of two brothers Radha and Manju who are raised by their cricket obsessed father.
Interesting but at times a bit weird.
On 3rd episode of Mumbai Indian netflix series and I find Akash Ambani and Nita Ambani extremely annoying. These two idiots should not be in players dressing room giving advice to professional cricketers. In an incident, Hardik is hurt, physio says he needs rest, Akash Ambani asks to risk Hardik and play the game. Mahela puts him in his place and tells him he isn't going to play Hardik. These are players not slaves of the Ambani family. You can clearly see the players hate the Ambani family already.
Lol doesn’t the wife regularly give team talks? I remember watching on YouTube once where she was giving malinga tips
I just started watching "What If" yesterday.....first episode kicked off nicely...... expecting lots of twists in the works, hoping for a good finish....
Anyone watched Ozark? Looks interesting.
Season 1 was very good, Season 2 is good. All in all a very watchable series.
Best and most overlooked show is Dark. It’s a masterpiece. Horror, scifi, mystery & drama. It has it all.
Netflix has tons of decent/ good series. But what they need is one groundbreaking series like other networks.
They do have Breaking Bad on their list last time I checked but it's not Netflix original.
Netflix has tons of decent/ good series. But what they need is one groundbreaking series like other networks.
They do have Breaking Bad on their list last time I checked but it's not Netflix original.
Really?
Have you not heard of House of Cards, Stranger Things, Marvel shows etc.
No other networks have come close to what Netflix has been making in recent years.
Watch Drilis Ertugrul brilliant Turkish series.
House of Cards turned into trash after two seasons. Haven't seen others.
Just signed up at Netflix.
Looking to watch Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man 2. Slightly old but I didn't watch those.
Waste of time they are bro
As the famed and admired early-mover in the high-quality streaming industry, Netflix has built a formidable business worth in the region of $125bn. In the past three months, it added 6.7 million new subscribers, bringing its total userbase to 153 million worldwide.
But the next three months will prove to be its most challenging yet. Soon, Netflix will be competing with Disney+, HBO Max and Apple TV+ - all companies with enormous brand recognition and a strong desire to take their own slice of streaming’s riches.
On Wednesday, Netflix wrote to investors to tell them that competition would be a good thing. The rising tide of streaming services would just tempt more people away from “linear TV”, as they term it, and into streaming services.
“Just like the evolution from broadcast TV to cable, these once-in-a-generation changes are very large and open up big, new opportunities for many players,” the company told investors.
“For example, for the first few decades of cable, networks like TBS, USA, ESPN, MTV and Discovery didn’t take much audience share from each other, but instead, they collectively took audience share from broadcast viewing.”
Netflix pointed to the fact that its growth rate in the US and Canada had been almost identical in the past six years, despite only one of those markets - the US - having a significant competitor in Hulu.
That may be the case, but Netflix’s argument neglects to address what will be different about what it can offer subscribers in the years ahead. Netflix’s back catalogue is in the process of being slowly picked to pieces, with competitors taking back shows and movies that they agreed to put on Netflix at a time when they didn’t have a streaming product of their own.
Lost shows
In one high-profile example, the era-defining sitcom Friends, which has been a huge hit on Netflix since being added in 2015, will be moving entirely to HBO’s platform in 2020.
In what was seen as an effort to counteract that loss, Netflix reportedly paid an astronomical half a billion dollars to secure the rights to Seinfeld. Up against Friends, Seinfeld has arguably far less global appeal, and looks rather tired when compared to Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s Seinfeld spin-off-of-sorts, which will be an HBO Max exclusive.
Friends and “Curb” are just two examples. Netflix is losing shows hand over fist. British classics, such as The Office, are now on Britbox. The US Office, cited by many Netflix users as great “background noise”, is being taken away, too - for NBC’s new streaming service, Peacock. That’ll launch in April.
It means Netflix will need to rely even more heavily on its original content. The “Netflix Original” brand is already well-established and highly-respected. Netflix originals took away 27 wins at this year’s Emmys (HBO won 34, Amazon 15).
“While the new competitors have some great titles (especially catalogue titles),” Netflix told investors, “none have the variety, diversity and quality of new original programming that we are producing around the world.”
That assertion on quality is to be debated in the pages of the Hollywood press, not here. But what’s inescapable for Netflix is that, despite the critical acclaim, those originals aren’t having the bottom line impact investors expect.
Even with the return of one of its stand-out originals, Stranger Things, this most recent quarter (three months ending in September) saw Netflix add just 530,000 new subscribers in the US, below Wall Street's expectations. In the previous quarter, it lost 126,000 subscribers in the country.
Its subscriber growth, then, has mostly come from investing in international markets - with 6.26 million paid members added in the last quarter.
Outbid
Without a strong back catalogue, Netflix knows it must keep investing in original content to survive, an extremely costly endeavour: analysts have said the company is going to spend around $15bn on new content this year.
To maintain that kind of investment, it told investors today it was looking to borrow more money, against a backdrop of investors becoming increasingly worried that the return of investment may not be coming, and that with deep-pocketed newcomers muscling in, the price of acquiring new programmes could rise further.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings admitted his company was outbid for Fleabag, which ended up being a co-production between Amazon and the BBC, and arguably the most talked about new show of the past year. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the show’s co-writer and star, has now signed to Amazon exclusively.
Meanwhile, Apple flexed its riches in beating Netflix to securing “The Morning Show”, Jennifer Aniston’s return to TV, where she'll appear alongside Reese Witherspoon. Apple’s clout brings another advantage: every new purchase of an Apple device will come with a year’s subscription of Apple TV+. Netflix has its work cut out in convincing Apple users to add its service on top. So does everyone else, for that matter.
Netflix looks precarious. Old shows are disappearing, and the company faces an unprecedented fight for the new ones.
Reed Hasting’s visionary approach to delivering movies over the internet gave Netflix a 12-year head start, but that counts for little when customers can stop paying whenever they please.
As Mr Hastings told an audience in the UK last month, his company is now part of “a whole new world” (though, if you want to see the movie featuring that song… it’s a Disney+ exclusive).
Watch Drilis Ertugrul brilliant Turkish series.
Agree , nothing comes close to it ! cant wait for Season 5 to come to Netflix.
I was reading the other day they are making another series to continue from Ertugrul called Dirilis Osman, hopefully its as good.
NEW DELHI: India is deliberating potential censorship on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, said a senior government source.
While film and TV certification bodies already moderate public content in India, the country’s laws do not allow censorship of content on the increasingly popular online streaming platforms.
The government’s concern has been sparked by several court cases and complaints filed to the police in recent months, alleging that some content was obscene or insulted religious sentiment, said the government official, who has direct knowledge of the deliberations.
Though concerns around possible censorship had prompted Netflix and Indian rival Hotstar to signs a self-regulation code in January, Amazon did not sign up and said “the current laws are adequate”.
“The self-regulation isn’t the same for all, which is raising a concern ... the directions are clear, we have to see how to address the problems,” the government official said.
Netflix’s first Indian original series, Sacred Games, faced a court challenge last year over “offensive scenes” and derogatory remarks about a former Indian prime minister, but the case was later dismissed. There was also a police complaint filed last month by an Indian politician who accused some Netflix shows of “defaming Hindus”.
Though it is possible the government will decide against any regulation, several other options are being explored, the government source said. These include a self-regulation code without government interference, a government-monitored code or measures requiring platforms to obtain content approval in advance.
“With regulation, all of the [global] content will need to be sanitised for India — a huge, expensive and time-consuming exercise,” said Prasanto Roy, a New Delhi technology policy analyst who advises global tech companies.
Netflix has come in for criticism from film-makers over a new feature that allows viewers to speed up or slow down its programmes and movies.
The function, which is still on trial, allows mobile users to watch its content at various different speeds.
The Incredibles director Brad Bird and Knocked Up's Judd Apatow were among those who tweeted their concerns.
Apatow, also creator of the Netflix series Love, said the function was "ridiculous and insulting".
The feature allows users to play content from half the normal speed up to one-and-a-half times faster, and is reportedly only available to Android mobile users.
Bird, whose films also include Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, said it was "another cut to the already bleeding-out cinema experience".
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsey added: "Does everything have to be designed for the laziest and most tasteless?"
Actors who have complained include Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, who said the feature amounted to "completely taking control of everyone else's art and destroying it".
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Netflix vice-president Keela Robinson said in a statement: "We regularly test new features that could help improve Netflix.
"This last test has generated a fair amount of feedback - both for and against. This is a mobile only test and gives people the ability to vary the speed at which they watch on phones or tablets...
"It's a feature that has long been available on DVD players - and has been frequently requested by our members. For example, people looking to rewatch their favourite scene or wanting to go slower because it's a foreign language title."
'Efficiency is everything'
The function could also appeal to viewers with a backlog of box sets to binge on. In fact, some people have for a while been indulging in "speed-watching".
Google Chrome has extensions that allow viewers to speed up Netflix content, while YouTube offers a variable speed feature, as does Apple for podcasts.
There's even an "efficiency expert" out there who advises watching at faster speeds to make the most of your viewing time.
"More jokes, more laughs, more drama, more suspense - same time," Michael Kirk, creator of the Efficiency is Everything website, writes. "Efficiency: Like an assembly line, if we increase the speed of the line, we will see more completed.
"Same jokes, same plot, and at 10% faster - you won't notice a difference."
Netflix's Keela Robinson said the company had "been sensitive to creator concerns", so hadn't included TVs in this test and had also put in an audio pitch adjustment feature.
"The company has no plans to roll any of these tests out in the short term," she added. "And whether we introduce these features for everyone at some point will depend on the feedback we receive."
Samsung has announced that Netflix will no longer be supported on some of its older smart TVs.
From 1 December, the Netflix app will no longer work on some 2010 and 2011 models due to "technical limitations".
Seven older Roku streaming sticks will also no longer support Netflix from December, Roku told Digital Trends.
Netflix can be watched on smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming media players and video consoles. Users can check if their devices are compatible here.
"Samsung was recently notified by Netflix that as of 1 December, the Netflix app will no longer be supported on selected 2010 and 2011 Smart TV models sold in Canada and the US," Samsung said in a statement.
"For consumers with these models, there are still many other devices supported by Netflix that can be connected to a Smart TV in order to access the app."
Jim Martin, editor of tech reviews website Tech Advisor, says consumers should check whether any of the other devices they own can be used to access Netflix.
"It's partly the price of being an early adopter," he told the BBC. "Technology moves quite quickly and nothing lasts forever."
He added that people who want to keep accessing streaming services on their existing smart TV could plug in a streaming stick.
Roku said the older streaming stick models that would no longer support Netflix included the Roku 2050X, Roku 2100X, Roku 2000C, Roku HD Player, Roku SD Player, Roku XR Player and Roku XD Player.
Poland's prime minister has written to streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to The Devil Next Door, a documentary about the Nazi death camps.
Mateusz Morawiecki said a map shown in the series locates the death camps within modern-day Poland's borders.
This misrepresents Poland as being responsible for the death camps, when it was actually occupied by Germany in World War Two, Mr Morawiecki said.
Netflix told Reuters it was aware of concerns regarding the documentary.
Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the war.
The Germans built concentration camps including at Auschwitz, killing millions of people, most of them Jews.
Mr Morawiecki said in his letter to Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, that it was important to "honour the memory and preserve the truth about World War II and the Holocaust".
He accused "certain works" on Netflix of being "hugely inaccurate" and "rewriting history".
The prime minister attached a map of Europe in late 1942 to the letter, as well as an account by Witold Pilecki, who was voluntarily imprisoned in Auschwitz and wrote about his experiences after successfully escaping.
"I believe that this terrible mistake has been committed unintentionally," Mr Morawiecki added.
Last year, Poland introduced laws criminalising language implying Polish responsibility for the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.
However, an international outcry prompted the government to remove the threat of three-year jail terms.
More than five million Poles were killed during World War Two, including up to three million Jews who were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust. The death camps were planned and operated by occupying German SS units.
There were, however, some Polish atrocities against Jews and other civilians during and after the war.
In 1941, Polish villagers in Jedwabne, perhaps at the instigation of the Nazis, rounded up more than 300 of their Jewish neighbours and burned them alive in a barn.
Anyone watched Ozark? Looks interesting.
It's actually really good. I'm surprised it hasn't got more attention, turned out to be one of the best shows available on Netflix. The location made it quite different to other shows of a similar type.
Former Netflix customers who cancelled their subscription months ago have had their accounts reactivated without their consent.
BBC Radio 4's You & Yours programme has learned that criminals can log in to dormant accounts and reactivate them without knowing users' bank details.
The video streaming service wants it to be easy for customers to rejoin.
As a result, customer data is held on the site for 10 months, including billing details.
Netflix says this information is available to members who choose to cancel and they will delete it all if requested by email.
Emily Keen from Oxford cancelled her Netflix service in April 2019, but found her account had been charged £11.99 by Netflix in September.
She said: "I tried to login to my account, but it said my email and password had not been recognised.
"It turns out the criminals had changed my login details completely and had signed me up for the most expensive service."
Criminal resales
Ms Keen contacted Netflix customer services and was told her card would be blocked and she would be refunded.
However, Netflix went on to take two more payments in October and November, and refunded her only in part.
Former Netflix subscribers have been complaining on Twitter about it happening to them too:
There is a lucrative market for Netflix login details, with criminals selling "lifetime" accounts on eBay for as little as £3.
An eBay spokesperson told You & Yours that these listings were banned from the platform and that they would be removed and enforcement action taken against the sellers.
Netflix says the safety of its members' accounts is top priority, and members who notice any unusual activity on their account should contact them immediately.