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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 19th, 2002 @ 2:14pm

   
   

   If the recommendation engine is there secret weapon, then Netflix is in big trouble. Their engine sucks beans.

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   Jim Beam, Jan 11th, 2003 @ 11:17pm

   
   

   Their engine works like this: keep new releases a secret because we are cheap greedy bastards and won't pay to stock enough new releases to go around. I workaround the problem by opening yahoo dvd news and looking through for new releases and requesting them from netflix. Of course then there is the standard one month wait for netflix to send it to me.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 24th, 2003 @ 9:07am

   
   

   I like the Netflix service, although there is certainly some "corruption" going on with their wait times etc.
   
   I find that having a smaller queue gets you a faster turnaround - I guess it's because they can't mark all your rentals as "Long wait" or nobody would use them.

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   Dalia, Nov 30th, 2003 @ 5:19pm

   
   

   Do you think that what Netflix is doing with small films that weren't box office hits is bad? is it better that netflix helps out smaller films, and deemphasizes on the big films? keep in mind that movies that are so called smash hits in our society today, might not be of a worthy quality, perhaps netflix can bring forth higher quality films, that might not be appreciated now, but maybe appreciated in the future? or it could go the other way, Netflix could bring forth lower quality films?

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