[throwaway082729]

There's nothing worth watching in Netflix now. I find myself spending more time on Prime Video where I can find richer content through Prime movies and subscription channels like HBO, Starz and PBS (for British murder mystery shows). Moreover, Netflix is getting its recommendations for me completely wrong. Without user reviews, I've no idea if the content is good. I'm not going to waste my time watching some random show if I find that it's crappy 2 episodes in. Prime on the other hand shows me IMDB ratings (which are good enough) along with user ratings.

[jhallenworld]

Amazon has the interesting idea of making it as easy as possible to buy a subscription (to Starz, HBO) and then cancel it later when you are no longer interested. I think this is very important in the future, where every content producer wants to have their own Netflix.

The advantage that Amazon offers, is that you only have to learn how to cancel a channel on Amazon, and not on 10 different websites..

[penagwin]

What you're describing is a "streaming service aggregator" which would be great but I doubt many streaming services will want to be apart of (Talking netflix, hulu, etc).

[sho]

> Netflix is getting its recommendations for me completely wrong

As far as I can tell Netflix has no "recommendation engine". I have never noticed any correlation between the kind of show/movie I like and what it displays; it seems completely random, well, with a bias towards self-made content which presumably costs them less in licensing - almost all of which is made-for-TV level garbage of no interest to me in any format. I genuinely think I could write a better recommendation engine. I think sorting by basically anything - budget, popularity in my demographic, most watched until completion, would be better than whatever they have now.

Basically my only use for Netflix now is the occasional standup comedy special (which I have to search for by name), the rare occasion I suddenly think of a movie I want to watch and is actually there (also search by name), or to put other people in front of. I'd try HBO Go but for some idiotic reason it's not available in my area.

Frankly, if they can actually execute, I think Disney is going to clean Netflix's clock.

[corford]

>I genuinely think I could write a better recommendation engine.

They'd have paid you for it back in the day :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

[ryanianian]

You may consider a meta-streaming service like ReelGood (not affiliated just a happy user). You tell it which streaming services you have, what shows you've liked, etc and it gives you recommendations from across all your services.

I go through cycles of using it and not but every time I'm feeling too much choice-fatigue I pull up my reelgood recs and pick something from there.