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The judge is only now telling them that the ADA applies to them, but he is then going to punish Netflix retroactively. So much for "no ex post facto." He should give them a reasonable amount of time from when he made his ruling for them to comply before any punishment would kick in. The world of lawsuits has nothing to do with common sense or logic or the real world. We need a new way of resolving disputes that doesn't involve lawsuits.
Netflix Faces Setback in National Association of the Deaf Streaming Caption Lawsuit
The National Association of the Deaf announced that Netflix faced a setback in the streaming caption lawsuit. The underlying lawsuit alleges that Netflix violates the ADA by failing to provide closed captioning on most of its “Watch Instantly” programming streamed on the Internet, thereby denyi...
Netflix is trying to prevent their streaming service from becoming a commodity that other companies can duplicate. The only sure way to do that is exclusive content. It's why MTV shows original content instead of just the music videos they started out with. (Any channel can get music videos from the music companies for free.) MTV had to offer viewers something they couldn't get from any other channel. Fortunately, original content on Netflix won't crowd out the other content nearly as much as with MTV since MTV is limited to just 24 programming hours in a day while Netflix can stream you anything in its vast library anytime.
Netflix Announces Another Exclusive Original Show: Eli Roth's 'Hemlock Grove'
Netflix announced another original show, 'Hemlock Grove,' to be directed by Eli Roth and available in early 2013 -- exclusively on Netflix streaming. "Hemlock Grove" starts with the body of a young girl, mangled and murdered in the shadow of the former Godfrey steel mill. Some suspect an escape...
I use subtitles even though I'm not hard of hearing. Sometimes dialog will use an uncommon word or an odd turn of phrase or the actor will have an accent hard to understand. An independent film from the UK or Australia will have actors speaking a different form of English from midwestern American dialect. A hip comedy will have idioms on the cutting edge of youth slang that I may not be current with. A smartly written show may use language very creatively to make literary allusions that I won't understand unless I can see them on screen and then Google them. Also, I have a lot on my mind in life and my attention will often wander for a second, and the subtitle will let me "catch up" with what was just said. I turn on subtitles whenever they are available.
Netflix Caption Update: 80% of Streaming Hours Captioned
Update: As noted by a number of readers and Tech of the Hub, Netflix hasn't provided captions for 80% of the streaming titles, they've captioned "80% of hours streamed." About half of all titles have captions, but Netflix has focused on the most popular titles first. Netflix posted an update on ...
David, I think they mean 80 percent of hours streamed, which is quite different from 80 percent of hours available for streaming.
Netflix Caption Update: 80% of Streaming Hours Captioned
Update: As noted by a number of readers and Tech of the Hub, Netflix hasn't provided captions for 80% of the streaming titles, they've captioned "80% of hours streamed." About half of all titles have captions, but Netflix has focused on the most popular titles first. Netflix posted an update on ...
My nearest Netflix processing center is located in a nearby city where the Postal Service processing center is being shut down. I wonder if Netflix will have to move their center?
USPS To Lay Off About 35,000 Employees & Close Processing Centers
Consumerist reports that the USPS is going through with plans to close more than half of all mail processing centers in order to cut costs. In all, 223 of the 264 processing facilities that had been considered for possible closure or consolidation will be affected. See the full list of faciliti...
I have recently seen some DVDs that were in my "saved" section go back into my regular queue. Netflix is apparently restocking some of its "out of stock" DVD titles. Examples include "The Adventure of English" "The Adventures of Mark Twain" "Mail Call" "Cat Girl Kiki" and others.
Vanity Fair Takes a Close Look at Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Vanity Fair has an interesting article about Netflix, Reed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall. “We weren’t doing the price change to raise profits or something,” he elaborated to me. “We were doing it because we were so focused on becoming the streaming company and the global streaming...
"Holly's World" seasons 1 and 2 (starring Holly Madison) came out on DVD September 27 and still is not available on Netflix.
Netflix New Releases for November 15th, 2011
Here's the full list of new DVD releases this week (detailed list): Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Monte Carlo, Bellflower, The Righteous and the Wicked, Main Street, The Tree, Flypaper, The Wavy Gravy Movie: Saint Misbehavin, Griff the Invisible, American Restoration, Whitechapel,...
I had this problem and found out it was caused by the "https everywhere" plugin I was using. I then changed my preferences for that plugin to have it not be enabled on netflix.com and that solved the problem. Note that I did not completely disable the plugin itself, I just brought up the list of sites for the plugin and changed netflix from a checkmark to an x.
Anyone Having Netflix Queue or Device Registration Problems?
Raymond writes, "Not sure if anyone else is having a similiar issue but for the last 6 weeks or so I have been unable to remove anything from my DVD queue. I get a pop up message like this: I called Netflix support and they couldn't delete anything either, they said it would only be a few day...
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