Posted by PapaBear on 12/25/07 04:58

"Derek Janssen" <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> PapaBear wrote:
>>
>> So what's their rationale? Are they deliberately trying to discourage
>> rental
>> of new movie releases? Or are they shooting themselves in the foot out of
>> pure stupidity??
>
> I guess they assumed everyone was already using the RSS feed by now:
> feed://rss.netflix.com/NewReleasesRSS

I've been fiddling with computers for about 25 years as a hobby, but there's
still a lot I don't know. Obviously I'm not a computer genius. For example,
I hear a lot about Ipods, and I guess I'll learn about them eventually, but
at this point have no idea what they are. Similarly, I know nothing about
RSS. If it will provide the same thing as the former "Releasing This Week"
on the Netflix website, I'm very interested, of course. But...how do I make
it work?

If I enter "feed://rss.netflix.com/NewReleasesRSS" into my IE6 browser
address window, it says "The page cannot be displayed". If I replace "feed"
with "http", it only gives a bunch of technical computer code. I'm all
ears...

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