People are so quick to forget. Back when Netflix came out it's appeal was offering movies for viewing online. People scoffed at it because TV was king and Netflix wasn't on TV yet, smart TVs weren't a thing and Roku had to be built as a middleman. "Why would I pay for that". No one believed in the products in the way that people believe in Netflix and YouTube or Google or even twitter today.

Today every tv is smart, YouTube has a YouTube TV app, all these media companies have their own apps like paramount and ESPN, and people are willing to pay.

[–] broguy89@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you high? Netflix wasn't online, it was DVDs through the mail that you kept until you were ready for new ones. After its online became far more popular than the legacy service, people were still pissed when they announced they were going to stop the DVD mail, even when they stopped using that original service.

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's sort of implied that the time period I'm referring to is when Netflix shifted it's attention to the online service.

And what I'm saying is still valid. I remember my father scoffing at Netflix because he didn't think it could compete with traditional TV.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I had a mythtv box with 1000 movies, 10s of thousands of TV episodes just so much stuff and a computer in every tv in the house. You could rewind live tv and skip ads. Most family members never switched the tv input to the mythtv box. The two that used it asked after two weeks, is there anything new?