Maybe that is where the audience is, but take a look at some of the shows I'm watching or looking forward to.
-the flash
-game of thrones
-limitless (RIP)
-the magicians
-the expanse
-killjoys
-dark matter
-westworld
-walking dead
-the strain
-gotham
-agents of shield (this is so effing good now)
-powers
and of course... the netflix marvel shows
-daredevil
-jessica jones
-luke cage
-iron fist
-punisher
Notice a problem here? all the marvel stuff on netflix is ULTRA mundane and low powered (jesus effing christ spend some damn money - they seemed to spend more on "the get down" than any of these shows.
I enjoyed daredevil, and jessica jones, going to watch luke cage but expect to like that least of all. Why? There are a smattering of powers, but the choices here seem tailor made to do as LITTLE as possible that does not look like an actual comic show. Contrast this with the flash, the special effects, the exotic characters, those guys are FEARLESS, the chains are off. Can you IMAGINE netflix having a show like that?
I'm most looking forward to iron fist since it seems like it will have a more mystical bent, but the other shoe to drop on a future marvel show? The Punisher.... I get it, people liked the punisher but... once AGAIN it's just some no powered anti hero. Grow some BALLS netflix! WTF is wrong with them? Is it JUST me that feels this way?
hbo has game of thrones, in glorious 1080p.... if that (not sure what the streaming quality is). THAT is a show that could use the 4k treatment for my 4k tv. It's an epic show that is NOT constrained by mundane effing reality, like you know... marco polo is. See the difference? Large budget on each, but NETFLIX chooses to almost NEVER go higher fantasy or sci fi. But let's make sure to show fuller house in 4k, and more comedians...
THAT IS NOT WHAT WE NEED in 4k, we need you to be a bigger champion of sci fi and fantasy! Who gives a damn if house of cards is in 4k, I want to see the expanse in 4k !!!!!!!! But I can't because netflix is not the producer of that show.
Even the marvel stuff, where you'd think they'd be FORCED to go more fantastical... agents of shield runs circles around all the marvel netflix shows so far as far as spectacle goes with powers.
I saw westworld tonight, looks extremely promising. And of course it's not on netflix, why?
Now some of you may think, who cares, it's on other networks so the stuff is still being made. Sure. And it gets released in INFERIOR ways. if you are LUCKY you can get it broadcast in 720p/1080i.
4k broadcasts? Sure, for sports or pay per view, the former being the MOST perishable of ALL POSSIBLE god damn content, oh sure, we'll broadcast THAT in 4k. But a show like game of effing thrones, that consistently wins awards for visual effects? 720p peasants. Netflix has the better distribution model, but not the content. And the other networks are not cowards when it comes to more exotic sci fi / fantasy shows, but they seem to want these archaic delivery windows, broadcast with commercials, then a day later 1080p single episode downloads (maybe hulu plus streams the next day). And 4k streams? TOTAL silence. But I bet some of these jerks will try to milk 4k blue ray as the only 4k versions of the show instead of just streaming that in higher quality. I find this all absolutely maddening.
Would you all rather see this kind of scene in 4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zL6bPLzKA8
or this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULwUzF1q5w4
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXuGLswn2l0
...
When I go to the theater, I ONLY go to the AMC that has dolby cinema, because the ONLY movies I see are the kinds that are filled with more spectacle. That is where I intend to see Doctor Strange, I am not going to WASTE my time seeing something like Bridget Jones Diary in that kind of venue.
Well netflix is the dolby cinema of the tv streaming world, and their chosen content is less game of thrones, less the flash, less agents of shield or the expanse... it's fuller house.
Step the hell up netflix.