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Posted by Derek Janssen on 02/22/06 18:46
Bob wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2006 17:03:26 -0800, lorincantrell@yahoo.com wrote:
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>>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.
>
> February is no better.
>
> NF had to absorb all those WalMart customers so we can expect glitches
> until they adapt to the new subscriber base. Since the DVDs are made
> out of etched metal, it's not simply a matter of 'burning' some more.
> They have to commission sufficient numbers to justify the tooling
> expense for a new run.
As a Netflix rep once explained, "We can't just run down to our corner
Suncoast and buy a copy".
(As that would technically violate those legal "personal use" Interpol
warnings we get at the beginnings of the disks, and rental copies have
to be wholesale-acquisitioned from the studio/company distributors, just
like any Blockbuster.)
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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