Netflix Will Air Traditional TV Channels in France (theverge.com) 20
Starting in summer 2026, Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch commercially broadcast TV content "without ever having to leave the service." The Verge adds: The streaming giant has announced a distribution deal with French media company TF1 Group to make TF1's free-to-air live TV channels and on-demand TF1 Plus streaming content available to French Netflix users as part of their existing subscription plan.
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I stopped subscribing because we travel a lot and every time I try to login I get a message saying this is not part of my household. It's insulting. Screw you Netflix!
I've always been able to work around this inconvenience. Netflix does this because they were losing business to people sharing their password with their non-paying friends. How would you handle the same situation if you were running Netflix?
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Yes you can work around this but it takes effort.
The insult is, "I did nothing wrong yet you treat me like a criminal".
Any marketer will tell you if you make it harder for your customers, you will lose some.
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I've always been able to work around this inconvenience. Netflix does this because they were losing business to people sharing their password with their non-paying friends. How would you handle the same situation if you were running Netflix?
I'm not the AC, but if I were Netflix I'd start giving "offending" accounts long unskippable commercials every five minutes. I'd also contact their employer to say their employee is a thief. Then I'll claim I know what kind of dog they have.
As a human I'd find those tactics horrifying, but thinking like a multinational corporation makes those options seem plausible.
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I wonder if they do the same thing with the ad supported accounts? There's no good reason to ban account sharing, or impose restrictions on simultaneous connections, for something primarily funded through advertising. Of course, there's no good reason to charge a subscription fee either, and they do that.
The answer to your question right now is if I were Netflix, I'd try to merge with Disney+ and then quit as I (or rather the current management of Netflix) have no idea what I'm doing. But there certainly ar
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They need to handle it in some way... any way... that does not involve falsely accusing anyone of imagined (or real) wrongdoing. That is never okay.
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That goes against their whole Netflix and chill binge watching campaign. Plus they want to keep people on the platform as much as possible as that gives them leverage during content negotiations and so on.
A better and simpler solution is to look at viewing habits.
If you watch episodes 1,2,3 from one location, then 4,5,6 from another, and 7,8,9 from a third- you are probably just traveling.
If you are consistently watching the same episodes from multiple locations, that's suspicious.
Or if you only watch show
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> How would you handle the same situation if you were running Netflix?
You look at viewing habits.
If they are watching the episodes in a series once and sequentially- it's pretty obvious that's not a shared account just someone traveling.
If they are consistently watching the same shows from different locations, or only watching show A from location A and show B from location B it's pretty likely they are sharing.
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They're expensive ($18 is a fucking rip off, especially given they're now answerable to advertisers - that "cheap" $8 (when is $8 cheap?) thing impacts those who don't want ads too), and their content sucks - unfunny comedy standup specials, cheap "action" movies with the same four horseactors of the apocalypse (Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Jack Black), and usually what's left that's good is only good by accident and cancelled after no more than three seasons, often sooner.
Them trying to av
Ah (Score:1)
Ah ben on avait bien besoin de ça : TF1, la chaîne qui vend du temps de cerveau disponible diffusé sur Neflix, le media qui a du temps de cerveau disponible à vendre.
The new cable (Score:2)
retransmission fees? (Score:2)
retransmission fees?
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I don't understand this (Score:1)
If I can watch something for free over the air, why do I want to watch it within Netflix?
I guess, if I want to watch something when I am away from home....ok. But how often is that?
I dunno....doesn't seem like this is much of a feature.
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So that you can timeshift; you won't have to buy an HD Homerun and have it store the video in your MythTV or whatever, until you're ready to watch.
OTOH if your monitor has a tuner (it's an actual TV!) and you're ok with appointments, oldschool TV can be just fine, I guess. I don't think I've done that since I got my VCR in 1987, but I do recall it was viable. (I did decide to get that VCR, though.)
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I don't live my life around the TV.
I don't record anything.
If something isn't available to watch when I feel like watching it, then I don't watch it.