[ocdtrekkie]

People love to make the Netflix comparison, but it's generally silly. First-run, current-season material is vastly more expensive than the backlogs and cheap movies Netflix buys.

You couldn't/wouldn't want to pay for how much current TV shows would cost in commercial free. Netflix works because they only buy cheap content.

[maxerickson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...

[ocdtrekkie]

Largely irrelevant. Netflix shows are at a budget Netflix controls, rather than the pricing maze of licensing content from major networks. Many more shows, often with higher budgets. And with a price premium because Netflix would be competing with their own services if Netflix was given earlier access to them.

[maxerickson]

My point was that they are actually producing "First-run, current-season material". They have several shows that have gotten attention for their quality.

You say "you couldn't/wouldn't want to pay for how much current TV shows would cost in commercial free.", but a show with a 10 million dollar budget and a million viewers would cost $10, not a lot more than Google Play for current season stuff (per episode), so apparently people are paying about what it would take.

[ocdtrekkie]

For just that show. And when you look at the hundreds of shows these streaming services offer, at a potential cost of $10 a pop per user, per show, you start to understand why you still see ads when you pay to subscribe. ;)

[ChuckMcM]

I think you are mistaken, the cost per episode of the shows that NetFlix has produced are on a par with anything on Network Television or Cable. What changes is the number of people with fingers in the pie. Certainly the production values of Daredevil were as good as anything on TV at the time. The combination of better CGI (lowering location costs and the costs of set dressing) and streamlining the number of people who want to make a nickel, changes the game with respect to getting new shows on to the viewer's screen.