NETFLIX
Netflix is a media-services provider, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. The company’s primary business is its subscription-based streaming OTT service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. As of January 2019, Netflix had over 139 million paid subscriptions worldwide. Netflix’s initial business model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but after about a year the company focused on the DVD rental business. Netflix has greatly expanded the production and distribution of both film and television series since 2012, and offers a variety of “Netflix Original” content through its online library. Netflix released an estimated 126 original series and films in 2016, more than any other network or cable channel. (More from Wikipedia)
Finally, I have a recommendation to go with my confession earlier. If any of you are still signed up with Netflix, you should add the 1994 film Backbeat to your queue. It is the early history of the Beatles mostly when they were in Hamburg, Germany and primarily follows Stu Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff), an old friend of John Lennon who was in an early incarnation of the band.
(September 2012)
