>>115764560>economicsIf you mean economic depreciation
>>115764708>>115764831>>115750250I remember these. I also remember the days of Cartoon Network airing the season finale of their show in a neighboring country 4-months early. I remember Nickelodeon waiting more than a fucking full year to show the final season of My Life as a Teenage Robot in the USA.
I get showing a movie or even a show in another country a month early. It's an asshole move, but you're trying to make money. Understood. But 4-months? A fucking year!?
Also I think Netflix probably took a serious look at the online communities out there and saw that people were already bingeing on other shows. Their model is a pure-subscription model, not ad-revenue. People will watch the shows eventually the same way, and it will cost them the same amount of transmission bandwidth either way. In fact it's actually slightly CHEAPER for them to release in a bulk, because people are more likely to watch together in a group on the occasion. This means that only one video-stream of the episodes is necessary, versus the dozens of smaller ones.
