Today I spent
most of the day watching my Netflix movies which have been piling up a
bit. So when I first started Netflix I figured one movie every three
days is fair. Going by that rate I'm at May 15th because I didn't watch
any movies for a few months. Now, at a good rate I can watch maybe 4-5
movies a week though the problem is that I don't have as much time
during the week as I have in the weekend.
What I do is I copy the DVD to my hard drive during the week and watch
them during the weekends, then erase them since I don't need them
anymore. This way I can watch 5-6 dvds a week. It may not seem like
much of an improvement but it is significant.
I'm probably going to keep renting at as a high a rate as I can even
when I catch up. I guess I'm a bit mad at Netflix for continuing to
charge me this certain amount when new customers and customers that
threatened to leave got a lower rate. And then they raised my rate to
whatever they charge customers now.
With both the NFL season and the Fall television season starting I'm
going to have less time to watch movies. So it's not like I'm going to
be catching up anytime soon to the level that I consider fair.
Movie qualities have been better. A year ago a lot of stuff was
scratched and some movies I couldn't get my DVD player to play all the
way through (which is amazingly annoying if I've only seen half the
movie). Haven't had that problem in the last three months. Turnaround
and delivery times are still very good, usually two business days but
sometimes three.
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I also haven't
seen any lost DVDs in along while. There was a period when I lost like
three DVDs in the span of a couple of months. I mailed the DVDs but
they never reached Netflix, or at least it was never registered as
received. Could have been the USPS or it could have been the Netflix
warehouse or their tracking software.
I'm pretty much through the 2000 movies. I went to Dark Horizons to get
their 2001 movies list but apparently they don't have it anymore. So I
went through IMDB's 1200+ entry list to find movies to rent from 2001.
Lots of television shows, lots of direct to video movies, lots of
foreign movies, a whole lot of pornographic movies. Actually took a
long time to just skim through the list. Only found about 50 movies but
that's good enough.
2002 will also probably only a few movies. Dark Horizons does have a
2003 movie list but who knows if it will still be there when it's time
for me to add those movies. I did a little searching around but didn't
find any good movie lists by year. Actually I do have a list of movies
for 2003 so it's only a problem for 2002.
So my queue is now almost 150 entries. Much more television than there
used to be. It's a good time to collect television shows because so
many old and new shows are being released on DVD. Also some amount of
anime which tends to be multiple disks.
Netflix is a really cool idea and they have been good implementing the
whole things. Hopefully competition will make things better, though I
shudder at the thought of Walmart or Blockbuster winning because both
of them are known for sanitizing movies and movie selections
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