• Mike D.@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Odd timing as my wife just asked about cancelling Netflix. We are not currently watching anything they have.

  • superflippy@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    So, it’s golf. They’re planning to have a tournament featuring players from their reality golf shows (which I didn’t even know existed until this moment). I honestly don’t know if golf is easier or harder to show live than other sports.

    • KilgoreTrout@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Seems more like it’s going to be celebrity pro-am golf, with the celeb amateurs being from other sports that Netflix has produced documentaries about — which would be tennis (Breaking Point), Formula One (Drive to Survive), maybe cycling (Tour de France: Unchained)?

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    1 year ago

    Not sure how much I trust them to handle this well considering how poorly the live-streamed Love is Blind reunion went.

  • Dr_Evil@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Would be pretty cool if they pick up some MLB/NHL teams whose rights may be up for grabs in the near term with Diamond sports bankruptcy!

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      1 year ago

      NHL on Netflix might make me more inclined to subscribe, though IIRC doesn’t NHL have its own streaming service or similar concept?

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        They do, but I believe it is subject to local team blackouts (exclusive to Diamond sports cable channel)… Would be nice if they were somehow able to provide streaming of local teams!

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    1 year ago

    Yay. Sounds like I’ll have one or two new items to add to the already long list of reasons to cancel:

    -If any of my fees will be going to pay for sporting event streaming licenses. -If it’s not easy to block this content in the already bad browse and search views.

    I don’t mind if they carry documentaries about truly notable sporting events or participants but having live sporting events on that platform is just dumb.

    Is golf even a sport? Looks like exercise at best to me, and that’s only if you’re playing without a cart.