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They could also make a store where you can loan their movies, then return them after watching and loan others

Wo even comes up with those wacky ideas? I don't want to see movies with random people taken off the street.

The movie industry version of Return To Office.

In order to continue using Netflix, you have to watch 3 movies a week in the theater.

If I can rent it out for the night so its just me and my buddies it'd be great! Of course it'll need a completntary extra tall dude who sits in front of me, a crying baby, an old lady with a nasty caugh, and the dude with an obnonxious laugh who seen the movie 6 times and spoils everything.

This would be like Amazon opening up a physical book store (which didn't last long):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Books

Let me watch any Netflix content in a movie theater whenever I want and now you got something.

One of the cinema companies where I live has started renting out the individual cinema rooms to people, you can bring in you're console, hook it up to the project9r and play games or watch TV or movies using your own accounts.

I don't think that would be very profitable unless they would force people to go by maybe showing content exclusivly in these stores before releasing them online.

this would be so Disruptive

If I understand correctly, a major player at Netflix actively doesn't like theaters and sees them as competition to eliminate.

On a completely separate tangent: You remember those occasional attempts at online virtual hangout zones back in the 2000s? They were implemented in anything from Flash to the Source engine, often resembled a physical shopping mall, "Hang out with your friends, customize your avatar, engage with today's products and brands!" And a lot of them tried to have virtual movie theaters, because of course people wanted to sit in their computer chair in front of their 15 inch CRT and watch a very low resolution "whatever will fit down a 2002 era DSL connection" stream of Shrek 2 in its entirety. And of course it never really happened that often because no one would license them the rights to any decent movies.

Netflix actually had that in Sydney, in partnership with a speaker company. It was to push home theater, but you could go watch movies.

I havnt heard of the speaker company since.

Woah. That gives me an idea.

What if we used the internet to let people watch videos without downloading them anywhere? The video data could just flow from the server to the client, and rendered directly to a screen. I’m still trying to come up with a coherent name for the concept though.

I'd like to have spaces a bit like karaoke bars, where you can rent a room with some friends and watch TV or play videogames and order food and drinks. And maybe even karaoke. I hate theaters because the general population is insufferable, but watching a movie with friends is still fun.

Imagine the really big screen to which my projector points and ask me why I wouldn't care. If you can invest in a really awesome home theatre system, it's rare that you wanna go somewhere other than home to see something.

My mind is blown away

Not that far off, tbh. Netflix is planning to open multiple brick-and-mortar places in 2025, just not for watching movies or shows (afaik). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-12/netflix-to-open-stores-where-fans-can-play-shop-and-eat-in-2025

I get that this is tongue-in-cheek call to remember that movie theaters are a thing, but this isn't outside the realm of possibility.

If we consider that a lot of mainstream "big screen" movies are digitally distributed, the distinction is actually very small. The only real difference is licensing; individual screening vs group screening. And a big company like Netflix probably has a lot of leverage to competitively negotiate this already since they have established relationships with most media companies.