Netflix

[LH-C]

For those of you that have Netflix, have you added anyone to your friends list yet?

[BeyondTheGrave]

No friends on the Netflix list, Not yet anyways.

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Most of all I hate dancing then work, exercise, people,stupid people



Post Edited (10-11-05 15:32)

[odinn7]

No friends at all. Not yet anyway.

[BeyondTheGrave]

odinn7 wrote:

> No friends at all. Not yet anyway.
>

But  we are your friends odinn7

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Most of all I hate dancing then work, exercise, people,stupid people

[odinn7]

rich andrini wrote:

> odinn7 wrote:
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> > No friends at all. Not yet anyway.
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> But  we are your friends odinn7
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> Most of all I hate dancing then work, exercise, people,stupid
> people


Haha...thanks Rich.

[Shadowphile]

I've seen netflix mentioned several times before.  Does anyone care to clue in the clueless as to what it's all about?

[BeyondTheGrave]

Netflix is a online movie rental service. For about 20 dollars a month you can rent 3 movies at a time and keep them as long as you want. When your done you send them back and they give you the next movies on your queue. The queue is a list of movies that you want and they send them to you as soon as you send back any one of the movies. You don't have to send them all back at one time either. The shipping is free to send them back and they usually get  the movies within a day or two to you. Pretty good collection of movies too,

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[Mofo Rising]

I' ve got 4 Netflix friends, 2 family and 2 people I know.

It's actually pretty interesting, as you can see what people have at home and what people have in their queue.  Also, Netflix crosschecks your movie ratings against each other, giving little lists that show movies you both loved or hated or disagreed upon.  Also, if a friend has rated a movie highly, a little purple person will appear next to the title while you're browsing.  When you bring up the movie you can see the rating your friends have given it.

I was leery about people seeing what I was renting at first, considering I mostly rent a lot of sleazy horror films and a crapload of anime, but since I obsessively check my rental queue Netflix friends has been something I now check out all the time.

If you want to see what I"m talking about, send an invitation to rsteele27@cox.net and I'll add you to my friends list.  You can always delete yourself later.

[Fearless Freep]

I currently have 171 movies in my queue...plus two headed back and one headed out...

[Mr_Vindictive]

I currently have about 180 in my list.  Mainly horror and foriegn films I haven't been able to find locally.

Anyone who wants to add me to their friends list should feel free to do so.  Just send an invite to:

george@sipen.com

[Squeakmiester 3000]

am i the only one who feels netflix is a menace and must be destroyed? then again, i feel that way about myspace too. and cooked meat. so maybe im a little irational on these subjects.

[Zapranoth]

What's objectionable about Netflix?

[Squeakmiester 3000]

well, it sort of takes away buisness from regualar video stores, and i really like to hang out in video stores and look at all the videos even if i don't get anything (which i often don't). so i guess i really am worried that the regular video store may go away.

[Zapranoth]

Don't have a lot of good indie video stores here, and those are the only ones I hang out in.  I loved the one I used to have near my college campus... but those days are gone.

If Netflix meant the end of Blockbuster and other chains, that'd be okay by me.  I really doubt it'll happen anytime soon though... (but that's just an opinion; I have no clue about the real implications of those particular market forces).

For me, though, I'd much rather just get the mail and get something I picked out and know I want, than to go to a store and spend 30 minutes agonizing.  And looking through all the crap.  And waiting in line.

There's something easier about Netflix besides that -- it's easier to remember what I wanted next, because I *never* think of what should come next when I'm *in* the video store (we all know how that happens).  But when I'm at this computer, I can just open a window and put it in the queue...

[Fearless Freep]

The regular video store has mostly already gone away at the hands of Blockbuster and a few others and if Netflix can dump Blockerbuster, great