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Maybe they hope people on the fence over paying $5/month for 1 or 2 or 3 new exclusive shows will bite given the availability or large numbers of old shows available exclusively,
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Maybe. But I don't see it happening. Maybe I lack foresight. Maybe.
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And, as mentioned earlier, some may pay for a month or 3 to binge on oldies.
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That's what will likely happen. But various people picking up your service for a free month and then dropping it doesn't seem like a viable long term strategy.
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(I am not happy about the declining netflix catalog, but am not currently willing to futz around trying the newcomer services and don't have anything to watch them with anyway.)
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To me, the Netflix catalog isn't declining, but it is changing. To their credit, they have so much original content to watch that I can't keep up with it. I still haven't watched Wild, Wild Country, Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Altered Cqarbon or G.L.O.W. and now there's The October Faction and The Witcher.
Even if the original content stream slows down (which it has to do eventually) there's enough on there to keep me as a subscriber for a good long time.
I do hope the studios are smart enough to keep licensing older movies to third party services. I watched Tremors on Netflix this weekend and enjoyed it. But c'mon, I'm never going to subscribe to Peacock just to watch it.