Ever since Netflix took off, its been very popular in providing people access to quality content, at a fair and very accessible price. At the same time, companies are super butt hurt about how it has managed to take over the market and still make massive profits.
Data companies want to restrict it not only because it takes higher bandwidth, but often times these companies have stakes in other media lines like timewarner, who's cable service which comes at a premium connection cost plus dealing with more ads than ever before, is rapidly losing subscribers.
Companies have even go so far as to infringe on the free exchange of information to stop netflix by throttling those services.
Hollywood is bellyaching about how effected their sales are on big hits because people on netflix are the biggest demand, where they wont make nearly the same income off the service or past initial release in theaters. netflix even has its onw bar of entry with netflix originals which are low budget B studios that actually do quite well.
I personally think netflix is a beautiful thing. its pushing convergence of how we consume our media and it sets a very high bar for companies to keep up. A high bar that is forcing the hands of T1 providers to keep up with modern standards instead of abusing consumers and overcharging prices for connections. We already see a shift in places where google fiber is instated, and large monopoly companies like charter, timewarner and at&t are forced into making fair deals.
Even how they treat their customers kinda pisses me off. After years of complaints and terrible service, timewarner has instilled a new policy of making a 1 hour window of when service can be provided at your doorstep. But it wasn't as simple as owning up to the fact and dealing with it. They actually backlash in the very same commercials used to advertise this new upkeep in service, by always showing the customer doing all after claiming he had important stuff to do, implying their time is spent on stupid stuff. This really shows what time warner really thinks of their customers and their time, that their time isn't important and its amazing how they blatantly advertised this as "a joke" when in reality its a complete reflection of their disrespect after providing terrible quality of service for years on end.
southpark was more spot on than they may have realized.
Netflix is a wakeup call to the convergence of networks and its right along with google in pushing for higher standards.
What do yall think?
Data companies want to restrict it not only because it takes higher bandwidth, but often times these companies have stakes in other media lines like timewarner, who's cable service which comes at a premium connection cost plus dealing with more ads than ever before, is rapidly losing subscribers.
Companies have even go so far as to infringe on the free exchange of information to stop netflix by throttling those services.
Hollywood is bellyaching about how effected their sales are on big hits because people on netflix are the biggest demand, where they wont make nearly the same income off the service or past initial release in theaters. netflix even has its onw bar of entry with netflix originals which are low budget B studios that actually do quite well.
I personally think netflix is a beautiful thing. its pushing convergence of how we consume our media and it sets a very high bar for companies to keep up. A high bar that is forcing the hands of T1 providers to keep up with modern standards instead of abusing consumers and overcharging prices for connections. We already see a shift in places where google fiber is instated, and large monopoly companies like charter, timewarner and at&t are forced into making fair deals.
Even how they treat their customers kinda pisses me off. After years of complaints and terrible service, timewarner has instilled a new policy of making a 1 hour window of when service can be provided at your doorstep. But it wasn't as simple as owning up to the fact and dealing with it. They actually backlash in the very same commercials used to advertise this new upkeep in service, by always showing the customer doing all after claiming he had important stuff to do, implying their time is spent on stupid stuff. This really shows what time warner really thinks of their customers and their time, that their time isn't important and its amazing how they blatantly advertised this as "a joke" when in reality its a complete reflection of their disrespect after providing terrible quality of service for years on end.
southpark was more spot on than they may have realized.
Netflix is a wakeup call to the convergence of networks and its right along with google in pushing for higher standards.
What do yall think?