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Originally Posted by rwest
Interestingly, Hulu reduced their price last month. I had Netflix several years ago and found I didn’t watch anything on it and every time I searched for a movie I heard about, they didn’t have it, so I bought Amazon Prime with that “pile” of money and don’t watch much on it either, but do like the shipping.
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Licenses was one of Netflix’s original problems and part of the reason they moved to creating content.
Studios would not license a movie on a time basis, like Netflix can show it X months for Y $’s regardless of how many, or few, views it actually received
It was view based per month. Meaning Netflix had to decide how many views they wanted to buy and once that number of views was hit, whether it was day one or day 29, they had to pull it.
So if something popular hit the service you better have set aside time in the first half of the month or there was a good chance it would be gone.
Under buying views was the better financial model as overbuying and having view inventory expire was lost money.