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"Netflix and Streaming Video is the first book to provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the business of subscriber-funded streaming video and its implications for the role of these services in culture. Drawing on Lotz's two decades of research, it highlights the similarities and differences among streaming video services (Netflix; Amazon) and video distribution technologies (broadcast; satellite; internet). Making a number of provocative and thought-provoking arguments, the book first reveals how the reliance on subscriber payment and video on demand produces different norms and strategies compared to previous video businesses. It then investigates Netflix and how its particular blend of characteristics distinguishes it from other subscriber-funded video on demand services. The author expertly shows that, by understanding the underlying economic and technological dynamics of these services (and their differences), it is possible to better assess the actions taken by the companies and what the future of video may encompass. The book is a must-read for students and scholars of Media and Communications Studies, as well as those wishing to learn more about Netflix and streaming video services."--publisher.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Jakob Kelsch, wie sich in der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie der 1950er und 1960er Jahre der Mythos der patriarchal-strukturierten Kernfamilie als Ideal des familiären Zusammenlebens herausbildete. Trotz Phasen der Dekonstruktion und der zunehmenden Repräsentation problematischer und ethnisch wie sozial diverser Familienverhältnisse erweist sich dieser Mythos bis heute als äußerst persistent. Der durch den Digitalisierungsprozess bedingte Aufstieg der Streamingdienste und der Siegeszug deren serieller Erzeugnisse brachte eine inhaltliche Diversifizierung des Genres Familienserie und eine zunehmende narrative Komplexität mit sich. Doch auch diese kann nur an der Oberfläche des tief im kulturellen Wissen verankerten Mythos der heteronormativen Kernfamilie rütteln.

We observe that an effect of disk resource sharing of multi-copy movie traffic has great impact on the blocking performance of a video-on-demand system. This observation leads us to establish a conjecture on how to balance the movie traffic load among combination groups of disks to maximize the level of disk resource sharing. For a given file replication instance, the conjecture predicts in general an effective lower bound on the blocking performance of the system. It motivates the design of a numerical index that measures quantitatively the goodness of disk resource sharing on allocation of multi-copy movie files. It also motivates the design of a greedy file allocation method that decides a good quality heuristic solution for each feasible file replication instance. We further develop analytical formulas to obtain approximate results for the bound fast and accurately. These techniques can be utilized by an optimization program to find near-optimal file assignment solutions for the system computationally efficiently.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Curation as Discourse, Trend and Cultural Salve -- "Too Much": Curation as Salve to Perceptions of Cultural Surplus -- References -- Chapter 3: The Curation Business Model -- Key Traits of Curation-Style VOD Platforms -- References -- Chapter 4: MUBI History: Connections, Community and Curation -- Phase I: Start-up Period (2007-2012) -- Phase II: Curated Thirty-Film SVOD Model (2012-2020) -- Phase III (2020-Present)? Vertical Integration and the End of Curation -- References -- Chapter 5: Recommendation Credibility in the MUBI Interface -- Ethos and Textual Mode of Address -- Design and Streaming Quality -- Film Presentation and Recommendation Explanation -- Community-Building Exercises -- Curation, Staff Credibility and Anti-Hierarchical Gatekeeping -- References -- Chapter 6: The MUBI Audience -- References -- Chapter 7: At the End of the Long Tail -- Data and Desires for Human(ist) Gatekeeping -- Success of MUBI, Failure of Curation VOD? -- References -- References -- Index.