r/movies • u/Vanderlyley • 28d ago

News Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-fourth-quarter-streaming-1236148263/
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u/Marcysdad 28d ago

It's the least user friendly streaming service and the recommendations are crap.

A fucking Uwe Boll movie has been in the top 10 for months for God's sake

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u/Pamander 28d ago

It's one thing I will never understand, how are you going to invest SO MUCH MONEY into these streaming services but not have the most important point of contact between paid users and the service be actually functional and at minimum smooth even if not attractive looking.

Shit blows my mind it's so frustrating how clunky several are and actively makes me not resubscribe because it's just annoying to try to watch, easier to just plex at that point.

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u/murphymc 27d ago

Why is it that Netflix can function so smoothly that it loads autoplay trailers while browsing faster than I can even read the title, and then seamlessly transition into actually watching something, while basically everyone other than YouTube is struggling to get their streaming platform to reliably open without crashing.

It’s like Ford is making cars with round wheels while GM and Toyota are trying to compete with square wheeled cars. It doesn’t make sense just how awful they all seem to be except Netflix.

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u/Data_Chandler 27d ago

It’s like Ford is making cars with round wheels while GM and Toyota are trying to compete with square wheeled cars. It doesn’t make sense just how awful they all seem to be except Netflix.

As a person who is borderline tech and IT illiterate like me, that feels like the perfect comparison.

The only 2 explanations I can think of: 1) What Netflix does (smoothness wise I mean) is actually super fucking difficult and expensive 2) A lot of other nascent streamers (as in, the corporate suits) don't understand that, and think they can just put 3 cheap and recently graduated IT guys in room together and expect them to make a massive streaming app run like clockwork. (Spoiler - they can't!)