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These are some complaints about the streaming video landscape

7 February, 2023

Netflix’s customers were enraged last week by news that it would crack down on password sharing. The company has since walked that back, saying it posted the new restrictions accidentally.

But according to research from Oxford Economics, streaming customers have a lot more to be grumpy about — like too many different streaming options and somehow, nothing to watch.

If “The Sopranos” ushered in the Golden Age of TV, shows like “Stranger Things” and “White Lotus” are marks of the surplus era, “where we are so overwhelmed,” said Brandon Katz, who follows the entertainment industry for Parrot Analytics.

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