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...works, but of little help for older movies. On some multifilm packs, the titles aren't mentioned. Other oldies may have several editions, of varying visual quality and with great extras or none. Netflix usually carries only one edition. To find out which one, you must go to a site like Amazon.com, find the item with the same box picture and read up on the editorial and customer reviews there. (In gratitude, you may end up buying from Amazon instead of renting from Netflix.) A lot of this trouble would be saved if Netflix were to list the distributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Ways to Fix Netflix | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Seaside Condo in Brazil This multisuite condo near São Paulo has an infinity pool and a dry sauna Will swap for: A house in Jackson Hole, Wyo., or Hawaii Where it's listed: HomeExchange.com, a 17-year-old site whose membership (at $99.95 annually) is up 34% this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Exchange: Trading (Vacation) Places | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...annual fee that is usually less than $100, members can access thousands of listings for apartments, condos, villas, suburban homes and farms around the world. Initial contact is made through the sites via e-mail, with subsequent communication usually by phone. Before a match is made, potential swappers tend to talk a lot as part of a scoping-out phase that one exchange site likens to online dating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Exchange: Trading (Vacation) Places | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...hotel, the concept may sound dicey to the uninitiated. What about theft? Damage? Reasonable causes for concern, but equally unlikely. "Nobody is going to fly across the ocean or drive 600 miles to come steal your flat-screen TV," says Tony DiCaprio, president of 1stHomeExchange.com a four-year-old site that has seen membership increase 30% this year. Remember, he notes, "at the same time they're staying in your home, you are staying in their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Exchange: Trading (Vacation) Places | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Parks may also opt to solicit sponsorships from corporations and other private sources. This is the strategy at Oglebay Resort, a self-supporting public municipal park in Wheeling, W.Va. The 2,000-acre park generates 99% of its $32 million budget from revenues from an on-site hotel, cottages and a golf course that it owns and operates, as well as donations and gifts that come in through a nonprofit foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Parks Look for Ways of Surviving the Budget Ax | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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