FeedFlix is a Netflix account analysis tool that enables you to see what you're spending on each DVD, the average time you keep a movie, and it even bugs you when you've kept a DVD too long. What really interests me is the aggregate data, such as Blu-ray adaptation, average rental length, popular plans, and queue sizes.
Feedflix is also tracking the number of Netflix DVD rentals vs. streaming, and is showing a trend for streaming to overtake DVD rentals in 2009:
The only problem with FeedFlix's data is that there are only a small number of subscribers that are using the service, so I believe that the information reflects early adopters that are more likely to be using Netflix's streaming service.
This doesn't take into account that streaming titles allow you to partially watch something. I know I've used Watch Now to preview a movie because I couldn't tell from the description if I had seen it before. As soon as you watch any part of a title then NF will count it as watched. This happens with DVDs too but not nearly as often I'm guessing.
Posted by: Complication | February 25, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Anyone kinda worried about security with this thing?
Posted by: banter | February 25, 2009 at 01:04 PM
This also doesn't take into account the fact that many people use Watch Instantly to watch TV shows. So if you watch 4 episodes of a TV show on Watch Instantly, that counts as 4 views. If you had watched the same 4 episodes on DVD, they likely would have been on the same disc and would only count as one DVD rental.
Posted by: MiniMonkey | February 25, 2009 at 02:31 PM
DVDs are fading as a technology. They enabled a terrific boom in video rental stores. That boom is over now. Independent video rental stores are closing. The DVD also potentiated the NetFlix boom which has yet to peak.
DVDs offer medium quality video, good capacity, and mailability. They are also cheap. Blu-ray offers better quality, plenty of capacity and mailability. Alas they are not cheap. If they ever become cheap, DVDs will fade even faster.
When FTTH becomes common in about five years, broadcast TV will probably present an image quality superior to that available now on Blu-ray. Blu-ray will probably then fade also.
I still have a lot of vinyl LPs and a turntable. People will probably keep their Blu-ray players and disk collections indefinitely. But they won't buy new disks just as I don't buy new LPs anymore.
Posted by: PLB | February 25, 2009 at 03:13 PM
OK so is there a correct graph that shows the instant watches vs shipments?
all i really need to know is if shipments are higher then instant watched
thanks
Posted by: Daniel Nasrallah | February 27, 2009 at 03:12 PM