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@sagederek1111 @VirginMediaIE are you having any issues with internet speed in Dublin 8? I can't load any streaming app on my telly like Netflix or NOW TV and last night the quality of the picture on Netflix was poor and it kept pausing to load

@ThrylokyaB @JioCinema Whats wrong with jio cinema? I was waiting to watch olympics , and today @JioCinema is not working or responding to watch olympics its very slow and laggy, our internet is really fast every other platform Youtube, netflix, hotstar are running well except @JioCinema

@hannahigwe23 9)second and 1.1 terabits per second, respectively. The following month, domain name system service provider Dyn's network was targeted, making a number of websites, including Amazon, Netflix, Twitter and The New York Times, unavailable for hours. The attacks infiltrated the

@TomlinJeanne @Noonanovazara @mandijel @silverrich39 You are the one doing emotive crap claiming for example that anyone with problems paying heating bills is blowing their money on Lattes and Netflix.

@GonzalesMi8051 Just had a major power outage at home but thankfully the squad from the power company came through and got it fixed in no time. All is good again, can't wait to get back to my gaming sesh and catch up on some Netflix. Life's good when you've got a solid support system, right?

@1876Lulu @nathansldennis @afneil My very elderly parents do not have Netflix, mobile phones, eat avocado on toast, smoke, drink, have a car, drink latte's from Starbucks or anywhere else and have worked all their life's and raised 3 children all without claiming benefits. Your answer is absurd

@marc_downing @netflix It really sucks that you changed the windows app to where you can no longer download movies to watch offline. I work in remote areas a lot with no internet service, and it was great to be able to download titles to my laptop to watch offline. Not anymore. Thanks a lot ?

@swatson2022 @Theeban_07 @Yogace_Dfan No 152 is final gross. You can check any site.. 220 netflix is only 130 and now the 130 deal is also dropped due to bad response. OTT now looks for hit flop also. Same with for all movies including Rajni. And who said 220? Is it only OTT or digital+ satellite?

@virginmedia @FerryColum Hi Colum, sorry to hear you're having trouble with the Netflix app. Are you able to navigate between profiles at all on that screen or is it totally stuck? Are you having issues with any other apps on there?

@JensHonack @WiseMenMastery Ditch the cheap dopamine hits.News and politics? Overrated distractions.Alcohol and Netflix? Time thieves.College and salary? Not always the golden ticket.Cut these out, and you'll watch 99% of your problems vanish.

@highpriestjrry Hail Satan 666 Netflix is not loaded on my phone. Slow Internet connection. Like I said before the liber resh is a religious ritual that has protection under freedom of religion.

@Josiah_Caswell @WyattzWorId I switched a few weeks ago before going on a trip right now. My niece, who has Verizon, is struggling with service issues. Meanwhile, mine has been great. We also got Netflix and Apple TV to switch lol

@Agent16258 @ImYourWildBoi Agreed the pacing is also an issue as with adaptations of shows in Netflix. I do appreciate the integration of legends lore and having force abilities in live action like force repulse. I appreciated the lightsaber choreography.

@LeeCros77969139 @SkyHelpTeam anyone else having issues loading netflix through sky, all my other apps load fine and I've tried doing everything on the automated service but no joy, it's just spinning?

@ezrasf @WomanMiami @bulmasan It is performative. They publicly say "cancel Netflix" hoping someone else does. They knew Disney's beef with DeSantis and dropped thousands to Disney World anyway.

@ZoveriaTTV @GuardiaanAngel Yes but my Fortnite updates, game updates and downloads in general like Netflix and streaming services will improve significantly with faster internet. It was taking 4-5 hours to download a 10GB update lol

Jonathan Friedland, the new vice president of global corporate communications who had joined Netflix just a few months earlier, asked whether customers on tight incomes might object to the price hike, according to people at Hastings' meeting. Hastings argued that Netflix was a great bargain. He said he knew that some customers would complain but that the number would be small and the anger would quickly fade.

Hastings was wrong. The price hike and the later, aborted attempt to spin off the company's DVD operations enraged Netflix customers. The company lost 800,000 subscribers, its stock price dropped 77 percent in four months, and management's reputation was battered. Hastings went from Fortune magazine's Businessperson of the Year to the target of Saturday Night Live satire.

To Hastings' credit, what he wanted to do made sense. The DVD's best days are behind it. Video streamed via the Internet is slowly replacing the physical disc, and betting a business on a dying product is never a great idea. So Hastings wanted to get ahead of the curve and focus on streaming, to disrupt his own business before someone else did it for him. It was aggressive, far-sighted, and very much in character.

Hastings is someone who knows a thing or two about disrupting businesses. Netflix, after all, is the company that drove the giants of video rental out of the sector with a simple premise: A simple-to-use Web site that delivers DVDs right to your doorstep. Best of all: No late fees. He became one of those executives with the "visionary" label, who can predict where a market is going before it happens, and was asked to join the board of directors of two of the most important companies in tech, Microsoft and Facebook.

Leading up to the first anniversary of the Netflix meltdown, CNET interviewed former and current Netflix employees to find out how a series of missteps turned into a lost year, and whether it has rebounded from those self-inflicted wounds. Most asked to remain anonymous. Netflix declined to comment for this story.

So how did Hastings stumble? Just prior to the attempt to remake Netflix into a streaming-video distributor, there was turmoil in the company's executive offices. Several of Hastings' most trusted lieutenants were no longer as influential with the CEO. Others had left and their replacements did not yet have the clout to convince Hastings he was being too aggressive for a customer base that by 2011 could hardly have been considered on the bleeding edge of consumer tech.

When customers and the press pushed back, the Netflix response was haphazard, culminating with an amateurish, confusing YouTube video heralding the coming of Qwikster, the spinoff that was supposed to be a life raft for Netflix's DVD operations. The Qwikster plan was scuttled three weeks after it was announced.

"Whatever happened to Fortune's Businessperson of the Year?" asks Wedbush research analyst Michael Pachter, referring to one of the many honors Hastings received in 2010. "Whatever happened to the guy who was invited to the boards at Facebook and Microsoft? What happened to that guy? Do you think Facebook would have invited him to their board now?"

Hastings has an unwavering belief that streaming video represented the future of home entertainment. He argued that in times of technological advancement companies that had succeeded at one business often clung too tightly to tradition and to what had made them successful. And then they were toast. He didn't want that to happen to Netflix. While few people disagree with that assessment, some within Netflix doubted Hastings' assessment of how quickly Netflix needed to shift to streaming.

But Hastings pressed ahead. Around March 2011, he took his plan to his executive team and then to the company's vice presidents. Some of the execs who heard Hastings talk about spinning off Netflix's DVD operations into a new company, referred to internally as DVD Co. and later Qwikster, left the meeting thinking Hastings was only considering the idea.

That impression was quickly corrected. Within about 72 hours, some of the group learned that Hastings had already offered the new company's CEO position to Andy Rendich, Netflix's respected chief service and operations officer. Hastings, it appeared, wasn't looking for debate.

Netflix rapidly began executing the plan. Some employees were stunned by how quickly and unemotionally DVD operations, the backbone of the business for a decade, was split off from the company. DVD Co. was moved out of Netflix's offices to a space a few blocks away. Netflix's leaders stopped discussing DVDs. Those Netflix executives who moved to DVD Co. stopped attending Netflix management meetings. Some of those people included Allison Hopkins, Netflix's vice president of human resources, Liz Coddington, vice president of financial planning and John Robison, vice president of DVD product development.

Few people who had worked for Netflix for any length of time were surprised that there wasn't more discussion about the plan. As Netflix's business blossomed and as he was personally applauded in the press, Hastings had grown much more confident in his own decision making, less receptive to taking advice from his senior management team. What's more, few of the people who could persuade Hastings or tell him he was making a mistake were around anymore.

Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997 and eventually assembled a seasoned management team that he kept largely intact for a decade at the Los Gatos, Calif., company. The competition and long odds united them. In 2004, when the battle against industry heavyweight Blockbuster was at its fiercest, former CFO Barry McCarthy almost left. A 30-year veteran in finance, McCarthy decided to stay and joked with coworkers that "you don't walk out on friends in the middle of a knife fight."

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