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I couldn't believe this guy....
The Netflix "math"? You have to get and return six movies a month for it to be $3 a rental, which is the national video store average (at least it used to be). That's not a lot of movies, if you rent movies (less than 2 movies a weekend).
And his last problems, with the Netflix queue not reading his mind. I think doing a little queue maintenance takes just as much time as going to a video store.
Commented May 25, 2006 on PBS Host Quits Netflix at Hacking NetFlix
PBS Host Quits Netflix
PBS host Mark Glaser explains why he recently left Netflix. For the Netflix math to pay off for me, I would have to watch a certain number of movies each month. And after I watch each one, I would have to remember to drop it in the mail promptly to get a replacement movie. Even though it seems mo...
What a load of ...
All right, maybe they don't throttle but I have two e-mails from customer service stating they do not send any titles they estimate will take more than 2 days to arrive, which means if there's only a copy of something in California--I will never, ever get it in Chicago. Unless someone in Arizona rents it, then someone in Missouri or something. It's worse than throttling.
Commented Mar 3, 2006 on Blockbuster Online Doesn't Throttle at Hacking NetFlix
Blockbuster Online Doesn't Throttle
Blockbuster issued a press release stating that they do not throttle customers: "BLOCKBUSTER Online does not throttle. When we say our service offers unlimited rentals, we mean it," said Shane Evangelist, senior vice president and general manager for BLOCKBUSTER Online. "We don't prioritize our c...
Only $200?
At the video store I used to work at, there was a customer--who was a "club member" and only paid $1 a day for late fees, who racked up $1400. It just became a joke after it went over $100.
Commented Feb 1, 2006 on Police Enforce Late Fees at Hacking NetFlix
Police Enforce Late Fees
Reason #47 for joining an online DVD-by-mail company: MLive.com is reporting that police officers are enforcing late fees in Michigan. Township police, it turned out, were responding to a complaint by Paradise Video about the videos, which were a couple of months late and have now rung up late fe...
Which sounds like... in2TV, only for pay...
Commented Jan 31, 2006 on Warner Testing P2P Distribution at Hacking NetFlix
Warner Testing P2P Distribution
Joe sent in a Wall Street Journal story that says Warner Bros. is experimenting with content distribution using peer-to-peer technology in Germany. Warner Bros. is working with Bertelsmann AG and its subsidiary Arvato to create a service called In2Movies, to launch in March. The service will feat...
I was going to go see it in the theater, but I got lazy, so I guess it's DVD for me.
Cuban's happy about the response (in that WSJ article).
Commented Jan 31, 2006 on WSJ: Bubble Gets Mixed Response at Hacking NetFlix
WSJ: Bubble Gets Mixed Response
The Wall Street Journal has an update on the first weekend of Steven Soderbergh's simultaneous release movie Bubble (available January 31st from Netflix): The strategy didn't result in much excitement about the film in theaters. "Bubble" took in an estimated $72,000 at the 32 screens where it pla...
I don't think I've ever gotten an unplayable disc from Netflix, actually. I think I got one broken one, once, and it really made me angry (because, after 5 years, I finally got one).
I've gotten quite a few broken discs from Blockbuster...
Commented Jan 31, 2006 on Unplayable Netflix Rentals at Hacking NetFlix
Unplayable Netflix Rentals
Bob writes about his frustration with unplayable movies from Netflix: I’m getting sick to death of the increasingly HIGH percentage of scratched -- and thereby unplayable -- DVD’s I’ve been getting from Netflix. Some look like they’ve been left on sandpaper. Some just won’t play from the get-go S...
for minimal effort, people can figure out how to download shows off bittorrent... but they don't, just for the ease of iTunes. It's the same as people not stealing music online--if the majority of the audience is convinced its easy, this'll be the way it is.
Commented Jan 31, 2006 on Networks Make $1.44 on iTunes Video Downloads at Hacking NetFlix
Networks Make $1.44 on iTunes Video Downloads
paidContent.org wrote an excellent summary of a Hollywood Reporter story about the money behind video downloads from Apple and Comcast. According to JPMorgan Chase analyst Spencer Wang, one-episode of a hit show on network TV would generate about $12 million in gross ad revenue (assuming 17 mill...
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