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>Netflix execs have been telling their screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing” so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along without having to miss plot strands.

That's the critical bit of context, this is essentially radio you have on in the background while you do whatever.

>>Dalewy+(OP)
Exactly the opposite of the experience I am looking for, with a video projector, in the dark.

I guess netflix is really competing against youtube and twitch here.

>>Dalewy+(OP)
Sometimes, I like watching the narrated movies meant for the visually impaired. It feels almost like an audiobook. Changing the content to make it more radio-like -- that's not something I'm a fan of. It's the whole "abstraction layers vs. tight coupling", except this time it's content.

>>Dalewy+(OP)
There is very little good or "main" content these days on Netflix. Every single time without fail whenever I have an urge to watch a specific show or movie, sometimes an old one, it's never available on Netflix. And even if they did have it, they "licensed" it for a year and no longer have it. What good is that for me?

So most of our usage these days of Netflix is just having something playing on the side or background while we go about daily tasks like working or whatever. It's glorified filler that you don't need to pay attention to.

I'm giving it a year maybe and I'm canceling our sub to Netflix. There are better alternatives, and life is too precious to spend worrying about copyright when all copyright holders just want to make me a criminal instead of letting be give them money.

>>zo1+V
Why do you need something on in the background?

>>chgs+S1
Personally it helps me sleep having "TV" playing in the background. But my SO uses it while she works, having something to break the monotony as music is distracting.

>>numpy-+y
Wes Anderson recently did a few short films from Roald Dahl stories that feel very strangely "wrong" in their almost 100% simply reading the stories out loud to actors miming along. It is so broken that it's fascinating and entirely works.

>>zo1+s6
> Personally it helps me sleep having "TV" playing in the background.

That's fascinating to me, as I could not ever sleep with the TV on. Anything that has spoken voices keeps my brain turned on decoding the language and sleep is just not possible.

>>zo1+s6
For background media, I found recordings of speedruns [0] with player commentary to strike the right balance, not being too distracting, yet giving a pleasant atmosphere (when, for example programming).

[0] for example as found on YouTube.