Netflixholic

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Wildfires affect Netflix shipping

Brad over at Neologies.net has a great post about Netflix suspending his billing and shipping due to the wildfires in his area.

I received this email from Netflix last Thursday because I live in San Diego County. Just about all of greater San Diego County was affected by the wildfires, many of which are still raging over a week later. Here's the full text of the email:

Your Account is on Temporary Shipping Hold

Dear Brad,

The U.S. Postal Service has let us know that postal delivery to your address has been interrupted due to the California wildfires. All of us at Netflix extend our sympathies to you and your loved ones during this difficult time. Given this situation, we have temporarily stopped shipping movies in your area. We are in regular contact with the USPS and will automatically resume delivery as soon as your postal carrier is able to deliver movies to you.

During this time, standard billing will be suspended but will resume normally as soon as your postal carrier is able to deliver movies to you. While we are unable to send you DVDs, you can still watch movies and TV episodes instantly on your PC at Netflix.

If postal delivery to your address has not been interrupted and you are receiving this message in error, please visit www.Netflix.com and follow the instructions at the top of the page.

If you have any questions, please call us anytime at 1-877-638-3549.

-Your friends at Netflix

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

My picks for this weeks Netflix releases

Two small movies really stand out.

Journey from the Fall

and... Pierrepoint

Lisa Nishimura-Seese joins Netflix

Lisa Nishimura-Seese has joined Netflix as VP of independent content acquisition, a newly created post in which she’s charged with broadening the selection of independent and small studio films offered on the DVD rental site.

Nishimura-Seese formerly was general manager of indie supplier Palm Pictures.

"I have long admired Lisa's innovative and creative insights in the home entertainment and independent film worlds,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, to whom Nishimura-Seese reports. “Her role at Palm Pictures positions Lisa perfectly for success in this new position."

Prior to Palm, Nishimura-Seese worked at Six Degree Records, Valley Media and Windham Hill Records.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Shared or Roll over minutes for Netflix watch instantly?

Amy Bellinger has an interesting idea to solve her problem of running out of watch instantly minutes.

I'm almost out of Netflix instant watching minutes, but it's occurred to me that I might use other people's minutes with their permission, maybe my parents. I don't think a lot of Netflix users take advantage of the instant watching feature.

It seems like there might be a secondary market to sell that time, except, since you'd have to log into other people's accounts to watch from their banks, there would be a security problem, or you'd have to go on trust. You'd have to be a pretty nasty person to maliciously delete or reorder somebody's cue.

Murder trial in Alaska pushes movie to Netflix top spot

Well, at least locally anyhow. According to the Anchorage Daily News the movie that prosecutors claim was the inspiration for a local murder is the top movie "Netflixed" (hey is that a verb?) by Alaskans.

The 1994 flick "The Last Seduction" was No. 1 on the Netflix local favorites list for Anchorage last week. Guess we can all figure out why. Wonder if the prosecutors who used it so shamelessly to taint the Linehan trial get a cut.

Prosecutors argued that she was inspired by the film and plotted to kill Leppink after viewing it. Defense lawyers say just because she thought it was a good movie doesn't mean she acted out its plot in her own life.

Seems like a great reason to move The Last Seduction to the top of my queue. More background on the case.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Red Envelope Entertainment's "Steal a Pencil for Me"

Red Envelope Entertainment's Steal a Pencil for Me was among the eight named nominees for best use of news footage in a documentary by the International Documentary Association.