[tushartyagi]

The problem that I personally see, at least with Netflix India, is that finding content is like finding needle in a haystack.

Some time back (last year or so), they were showing IMDB ratings for their content, but not now (maybe a falloff with Amazon since it owns IMDB). Now they try to find similar to what I've already watched, which IMHO does not make sense most of the time. I am here to find something new, not exactly same to what I've already seen. Moreover, I first look up the rating on IMDB of whatever I want to watch, and these days it mostly hovers around (5 or 6) out of 10 for almost all of their content.

PS: IMDB isn't silver bullet, but the user reviews are quiet spot on.

[amjd]

This is one of biggest gripes with Netflix as well. Their percentage rating system just tells how close a title is to stuff you have already watched. The problem with this kind of recommender system is that you stay in a bubble and never see content that is a departure from what you normally watch. Sadly, this is the case with most applications today.

Coming back to the topic, Netflix sorely needs an actual rating system, either like IMDB or something built in-house.