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Posted by lorincantrell on 10/05/06 11:40
I don't currently belong to Netflix, because I think it's silly to pay
for the service between November and January when the mail is so
screwed up and nobody is paying a lick of attention to their jobs
because of illness and holiday distractions. That being said, I'm
considering rejoining. I don't consider myself a heavy user. 12-13
discs a month is about all I'm capable of watching. Still, I felt I
was subject to some throttling before I quit last fall, especially in
the area of new releases.
I watch mostly TV series with a smattering of movies mixed in.
Something that happened several times, and infuriates me, is they would
ship two discs of the same TV series on the same day. There were only
ever two outcomes to this. 1) Both would arrive the same day. 2) The
latter disc would arrive first, and the earlier disk in the series
would arrive the next day if I was lucky, 2 days if I wasn't. Try
watching "24" out of sequence, or most other shows that have any kind
of story arc whatsoever. The 2nd scenario happened to me several
times. I never got the earlier disc first. Never, ever. A very
subtle form of throttling if you ask me. Everytime I proffer this
theory a bunch of people jump on the "it's the post offices fault" or
they "came from different distribution centers" despite having the same
return address on both discs.
Netflix has admitted they throttle, and with computer controlled
distribution (which the post office also uses) they probably have a
fair amount of control over shipping and arrival times.
-beaumon
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