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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
4/16/2016 12:33:00 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
@elizabethv: I dunno.  For me, paying for HBO just for Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley (I also like that one, and highly recommend it -- especially to people in the tech sector like us) is a better value than paying Netflix for a bunch of sub-mediocre content that I don't care about plus access to a few shows with rewatchability that I could just get the DVDs for.

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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
4/16/2016 12:30:58 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
@DHagar: Their prices are on the rise again, though.  At some point, it's probably cheaper to just buy the DVDs of the stuff you like and stop paying the monthly fee.  Especially now that they no longer care one iota about analyzing your preferences and recommending stuff that you'll actually like, like they used to.

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Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli
4/16/2016 12:29:53 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
Marco Polo is decent, but it's clearly Netflix trying to capitalize on the fascination with Game of Thrones.  Plus there are a lot of historical inaccuracies, and they haven't had a second season in quite some time now.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is okay but the sense of humor is a little too Tina Fey-ey for my taste.

House of Cards is great (I *finally* started watching it about a month or so ago)...but it jumps the shark a little bit in Season 3.

Haven't seen the others (except I watched Season 1 of Lilyhammer and it was OK... just Steven Van Zandt being typecast) and I really have no interest in them, short of one or two comedy specials.  (Emphasis on ONE OR TWO.  Netflix, stop pushing every original comedy special from every two-bit hack who's had 15 minutes of fame, please!)

Netflix certainly has quantity, but Game of Thrones alone makes HBO more valuable than Netflix IMHO (not to mention Silicon Valley, plus old shows like The Sopranos and Big Love for those who missed them the first time around).  I'm thinking of canceling Netflix and sticking w/ HBO.

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DHagar
DHagar
4/15/2016 9:06:25 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
@vnewman, I think you hit the nail on the head!  I am with you in the "uncool" range.  But they are a key source for the younger set!

Netflix has an excellent focus, right pricing, and good content - they are on a roll!

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vnewman
vnewman
4/15/2016 12:13:47 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
For the life of my I couldn't come up with any other shows besdies House of Cards and Orange in the New Black that I knew to be a Netflix original content.  So of course I looked it up.  "Sense8," "Bloodline," "Marco Polo," "BoJack Horseman," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt..." I've never heard of any of these before.  But you know who has?  My 18 year-old niece, who is way cooler than me apparently.  And that's what Netflix is doing right.  $9 a month for Netflix vs $15 for HBO Go.  Netflix has real depth, and though some would say HBO has better quality, I'd argue the majority people who stream videos are looking for more options at a lower cost.

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jbtombes
jbtombes
4/14/2016 4:48:23 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
Overstatis..huh? Anyway, I see comments on GoT, but nary a word about HBO's Silicon Valley, a great fit for this crowd, and its third most popular show, after GoT and True Detective. As for stats, the 'don't know' respondents increased from 27% to 34%. Confusion rising? Amazing that Netflix is outspending HBO. 

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Ariella
Ariella
4/14/2016 3:23:01 PM
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Re: Stand Alone Services
@Michelle well, I can see the appeal of that for cusotmers who really only want one or two shows carried by a channel that they are willing to pay for rather than subscribe to the whole thing with a lot of stuff they don't want.

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elizabethv
elizabethv
4/14/2016 8:16:35 AM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
I'm sure you're right about Game of Thrones. There is a lot of buzz about GoT but rarely do you hear about any other HBO shows. Why pay for the whole HBO package if you're really only interested in GoT. For me, my biggest challenege is the TWD but you can stream new episodes within a few hours of them airing, sure you pay $2 a piece for them, but I need my TWD fix, and that only amounts to $32 a year. HBO doesn't offer such things to GoT fans, to my knowledge. HBO chooses to be extremely selective about who can air their shows, so the common response is going be to just pirate the episodes. 

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Michelle
Michelle
4/13/2016 2:18:37 PM
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Re: Stand Alone Services
@af I think they'll pour more mony into the a la carte services. They just launched add-on subscriptions for Roku and Amazon streaming. They're playing the long game.

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inkstainedwretch
inkstainedwretch
4/13/2016 12:54:50 PM
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Overstatisticianization
Could the reason more poll respondents have Netflix and therefore favor Netflix be because they've sampled HBO content and decided they didn't like HBO as much?

If more people are attracted by the lineup of OITNB and Daredevil and Frankie & Grace than are attracted by GoT and... and whatever else HBO has right now, then you're apt to get more Netflix subscribers.

And you can't assume people WON'T pay for both; you only know that they're not paying for both. Certainly some people can't afford both, but some people might be actively rejecting an HBO subscribership, and we don't know what those numbers are. 

Keep in mind that one of HBO's most popular shows (Game of Thrones) is still among the most pirated shows on TV. That suggests there are millions who find it easier to pirate GoT, millions might like GoT but not enough to watch it if they had to pay for it, millions aren't interested enough in other HBO shows to pay for HBO, and those groups probably have significant overlap.

The seeming bias toward Netflix in the poll might be far more legitimate  than we are assuming here.

-- Brian Santo

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