Documentaries on Netflix

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Oh, and since this is a baseball forum I watched "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" which is available streaming on Netflix. It was one of the best baseball documentaries I've seen in a long time!

Yeah, this was a solid documentary. I watched it... Last year, maybe? It was awhile ago.

[nicksaviking]

Tried to get the wife to watch Hot Girls Wanted but she said no and that I was just a dirty pervert.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Tried to get the wife to watch Hot Girls Wanted but she said no and that I was just a dirty pervert.

Hah!

 

Trust me, there is *nothing* sexy about that documentary... Provided you have a conscience.

[nicksaviking]

Hah!

Trust me, there is *nothing* sexy about that documentary... Provided you have a conscience.

Yeah, that arguement went nowhere fast, and the more I persisted the more she distrusted me.

[Shane Wahl]

"Drone" is a must-watch. Glory be to murder by proxy. Can't wait to see Clinton's expanded use, especially in Libya . . .

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

"Drone" is a must-watch. Glory be to murder by proxy. Can't wait to see Clinton's expanded use, especially in Libya . . .

There's a documentary on drone strikes? Thanks for the heads-up. It's one of the more woefully under-discussed topics of the day.

[biggentleben]

I watched "Happy Valley" this weekend. Definitely a slant toward Penn State sympathy in the documentary, but a very different take than the media fed as well in respect to what Paterno's role was and the legal ramifications of it, and the university's handling of the issue with the family during and after the trial.

 

I'm very much interested in Drone.

[Craig Arko]

I'm just miffed that they lost Doctor Who.

[biggentleben]

 

I'm just miffed that they lost Doctor Who.

 

Yeah. That sucked

[Mike Sixel]

 

I'm just miffed that they lost Doctor Who.

 

What? What? What?

 

It is getting to the point that I might only need Amazon, and not both.....

[Brock Beauchamp]

This is Netflix's biggest issue in the short term. Cable channels think they can stream themselves - which is what BBC America is doing - and pulling out of Netflix.

 

By and large, I think this is short-sighted. BBC A doesn't have enough pull with audiences to stream their own service without offering older episodes elsewhere to draw in additional people, bolstering their new content.

 

The smart play is to put the old content as many places as possible and try to lure people they hook into the BBC A streaming service with new exclusive content.

[Mike Sixel]

I'd like to watch Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, without paying $20 to rent it on amazon (or whatever the cost is)......if BBC wants me, they should make their dang shows available on BBC streaming in the US. I'd likely pay for that, some reasonable number

 

Stations going ad hoc, isn't that basically unbundled Cable w/o local channels?

[Vanimal46]

 

What? What? What?

 

It is getting to the point that I might only need Amazon, and not both.....

I'm the complete opposite, where I still see value in Netflix, and not so much with Amazon. I use Amazon to catch up on The Americans, which I'm doing a bad job with (still only on season 1) 

I will say both services have a pretty good selection of TV shows to watch. But when it comes to movies, I think both are pretty poor these days.

[Vanimal46]

 

This is Netflix's biggest issue in the short term. Cable channels think they can stream themselves - which is what BBC America is doing - and pulling out of Netflix.

By and large, I think this is short-sighted. BBC A doesn't have enough pull with audiences to stream their own service without offering older episodes elsewhere to draw in additional people, bolstering their new content.

The smart play is to put the old content as many places as possible and try to lure people they hook into the BBC A streaming service with new exclusive content.

Agree 100%. I would not have learned how brilliant the shows Sherlock and Luther are without it being on Netflix. 

[Mike Sixel]

 

Agree 100%. I would not have learned how brilliant the shows Sherlock and Luther are without it being on Netflix. 

 

but they can do that by putting the first year on Netflix, and more current years on BBCA......

 

like, if I ran a book company, the first book in a long series would be 99 cents on Amazon and apple and google ebook stores, the rest would cost more (though OLD books I'd start discounting). Like, why are 20-30 year old books still $6.99 in ebook format? At some point, dropping the price gets you actual sales, which have to be all gravy at this point......

[Mike Sixel]

Sorry, now I'm off topic. My bad.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

but they can do that by putting the first year on Netflix, and more current years on BBCA......

 

like, if I ran a book company, the first book in a long series would be 99 cents on Amazon and apple and google ebook stores, the rest would cost more (though OLD books I'd start discounting). Like, why are 20-30 year old books still $6.99 in ebook format? At some point, dropping the price gets you actual sales, which have to be all gravy at this point......

Yeah, exactly... Kind of what HBO does with Amazon. Anything 2+ years old is on Amazon and if you want the new stuff, you buy into HBO Go/Now.