Word: netflixing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Friday night, and you want to watch a movie at home with that special someone. You could go to a video store and rent a film, and instantly it's yours; popcorn extra. Or you could go to Netflix, and the movie will arrive, earliest, on Tuesday. Here's hoping you had a Plan B for your big date...
...Make new rules for the waiting game. The attraction of Netflix for many users - that you can watch a movie at your convenience and return it at your whim - is an annoyance for those subscribers interested in films that the company has fewer copies of. Most customers at a video store don't keep a title long, because they're paying more every day it's out. But since Netflix lets titles stay out indefinitely, it has no way of determining when a member will return an old movie, and thus when it will become available for you, the next...
...they've bought - guided browsing, so to speak. How does a company read your mind? Through computer algorithms, which sift through the universe of possibilities to determine that B, C and D would attract the interest of people who bought A. Amazon.com's algorithms result in some astute suggestions; Netflix's suck. If, on the search line, you type in the documentary Joe Louis: For All Time, you'll be directed to the French omnibus film Paris, Je T'Aime. (T'aime is close to time, but the two movies have absolutely nothing in common.) Try The Monster...
...Find a better post office. You get the most use from Netflix by getting and returning your discs faster. That depends not just on you but on the delivery system: the U.S. Postal Service. I take my Netflix envelopes to one of three local post offices late each afternoon; they get to the nearest Netflix center the next day about 70% of the time. That's good, but not reliable. As one of the largest payers of first-class mail, couldn't Netflix exert a little muscle on the Postal Service - by which I mean the ones near...
...Turn the stream into a mighty river. About half of the company's costs go to paying the people who fill the envelopes and to the Postal Service. Netflix would love to dispense with those costs and send its product directly to customers by streaming it to their TVs. At the moment about 12,000 of the more than 100,000 titles are available for streaming, but that requires a Blu-ray player or a special Netflix device that sells for about $100. The company doesn't expect to be fully streaming for another five years. That's a long...