Netflix Featured in Videos from Two Humor Sites

Netflix is featured in two videos produced by College Humor and Funny or Die. The first, from College Humor, shows what classic movies would say if they could talk...

Click here to watch the video (the movie player is too big to embed).

The second video is Funny or Die's Kevin Bacon Movie Club (it's really kind of creepy):

See more Kevin Bacon videos at Funny or Die

Comments

[Matt]

this is not germane to this post, but i'd like to promote this idea anyhow:

Please don't ship me a movie if it will not ship from my local shipping center! It does me no good to wait for a whole week for one movie. There should be an option in netflix that says "only ship movies from my local shipping center." Hence, if a movie is at the top of my queue, but is only available from a shipping center other than my local one, netflix should select the next available move in my queue! This is an artificial way for Netflix to throttle customers.

[Shawn]

That Kevin Bacon vid ROCKED. Bravo, KB!

Shawn

PS: having Kevin Bacon deliver the movies one at a time is clearly a thinly veiled throttling strategy from Netflix.

[Finngall]

But will Kevin Bacon come over if you use a Mac?

There is no way to know where a movie will ship from until its actually shipped so you can want all day long for an option that's not available and never has been.

[Matt]

What do you mean, there is no way to know where a movie will ship from until it's actually shipped? *Of course* Netflix knows whether a movie is available or not. Otherwise, how would it notify another shipping center that the movie needs to ship from it instead? I suggest that Netflix, before preparing to ship a movie, should determine whether the top-most movie in my queue is available in my local shipping center. If it is, great, ship it. If not, skip that movie, and send the next movie in my queue which is available at my local shipping center. Obviously, Netflix has some way of knowing whether a particular movie is available in a particular shipping center--I imagine they have an inventory system of some sort. So it seems such an idea is feasible.

No they don't know.like i said, they only know when the dvd is being shipped at that moment whether or not it's at your local distribution center or another one in a different place, not anytime before that.

[Matt]

Honestly, how could Netflix not know that it does not have a movie in stock? It has to know. Here's how it must work. It looks at the top-most movie in my queue. It says to the Kansas City shipping center (my local center), hey, ship X movie. But then KC responds, no, we don't have that movie, so have another shipping center send it. I suggest that upon receiving KC's response that it doesn't have a particular movie that the next movie in my queue should be attempted instead.

i know exactly how it works. am i going to tell you ? nope. i signed a confidential agreement not to and i'd rather keep my word.

[Matt]

ok.

(shrug).