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by prepend 1808 days ago
I think Netflix doesn’t have enough content to do this. They have their own originals and just a thin layer of other stuff.

So I think any truly personalized content channel would get exhausted quickly.

What I’d like to have is just a channel of curated or semi curated movie content that I can leave running or forward through to watch.

I recently stayed in a hotel with 6 channels of hbo. It’s kind of refreshing to have “hbo comedy” with random stuff like Beverly Hills cop and billy Madison on at 2pm in the afternoon.

Netflix doesn’t have enough content to do this, so they keep recommending the same crap originals to me over and over, knowing that I don’t watch them.

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…Huh? Netflix has more originals at this point then HBO has across their entire library. That’s ignoring the licensed content Netflix also pays for.

I can appreciate that you may not like said content, but they certainly aren’t lacking.

HBO licenses more movies. In my week in my hotel room I haven’t watched a single “hbo original.”

So Netflix does have more original content, I don’t care. I want to watch shows and movies and don’t care what studio produces them.

Can you imagine only listening to Spotify produced music? Or Apple Music or something?

It isn't, however, ignoring the exclusively licensed content Netflix also pays for, which the bulk of their "originals" are.