Posted by Rats on 09/06/05 19:12

Derek Janssen wrote:
> elrous0@pop.uky.edu wrote:
>
> > Derek Janssen wrote:
> >
> >>Given that they reorganized the entire company on a national level in
> >>March, um...2001...you might want to give them a test-drive nowadays.
> >
> > Well, I have no idea what actually changed with their reorganization.
>
> Okay, let's run down the short list:
>
> - Multiple local regional centers that can process movies in shorter
> times--sometimes overnight, depending on your area--instead of One Big
> Swamped Megacenter
> - With more processing centers, more supply-availability for movies (I
> haven't seen a "Very Long Wait", let alone a "Short Wait", in months,
> unless it's some new disk that takes them a couple days to get a copy)

Uh, are you talking about Netflix?
I've had "The High and the Mighty" at number one on my list since it
was released a few weeks ago and it STILL has "very long wait" on it.

> - Company organized on a corporate level, allowing for more negotiations
> with studios for titles (they can't just go down to Suncoast and *buy* a
> copy, you know), even retroactively filling in titles that were too
> obscure to acquire in the mom-and-pop days
> - The "disk returned" button is no more (except for necessary
> customer-service cases)--Disks are now shipped out when received, thus
> preventing abuse
> - Oh, yeah, and they finally settled on a permanent idea for how to
> secure the envelopes...None of that "foam insert" nonsense anymore.
>
The envelopes are awful.

I see nothing good about Netflix other than long wait times. Oh wait,
that's not good.

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