Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Netflix vs Blockbuster online.

Yeah, I've never had a problem with Netflix, but then, most of the movies I get are kinda obscure. I like how they show you what the most popular movies are in your area--I live in a city full of bad taste.

I've been using Netflicks for awhile and am pleased with the service.

I'm guessing you also have their site bookmarked.

I was curious, and Netflix has registered "Netflicks.com", which directs you to them. Smart.

Duh, I didn't get the joke until now.

Speaking of Netflix

Interesting article in the WSJ last Friday describing the need for a dramatic expansion in raw capacity, or bandwidth for the net because of YouTube etc.
It mentioned " Netflix, which is gradually moving from the post office to the net, last year shipped 1.8 million DVD's every day. If converted to HD, Netflix would have mailed 5.8 exabytes of motion pictures, or almost half the size of the entire U.S. Internet of 2007."

An exabyte(a one-quintillion byte unit of information or computer storage) is 50,000 times larger than a digitized Library of Congress.

Maybe that's why your deliveries are a little slower. That's a lot of movies shipped in a day

Does anyone have any experience with Canadian equivalents? (zip.ca and cinemail.ca, others?)

I'm more interested in non-new releases, and some stuff you (shockingly) can't find easily at the local blockbuster. I tried to find "Dr. Strangelove" a while back. I explained to the clerk that it was a movie from the 60s, with Peter Sellers playing a bunch of different characters. He said "we don't have a lot of those old movies, but we have lots of copies of 'Norbit,' it's kinda like that." I have never been back.

That is hilarious!

I've been with Netflix almost since they went public and am very satisfied. However, I do live near one of their hubs so my experience may be tainted. Also, I have never tried the PC download movie watch thingy so I am not sure if it matches with BB.

The only criticism I have is that lately I have been getting a lot of movies that are severerly scratched. The skip or start from the start. To be fair, I have an old Sony DVD player, so some if my be my equipment... /shrugs.

Hilarious indeed, LOL!