I Thought I Had It Made When I Got NetFlix - Wrong Again!!
Nobody Ever Tells You About the Queue
February 18, 2007
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By: O. J. Cunningham
Netflix - They Never Tell You About The 'Queue'
Here's the Netflix deal: (I'm sure you've heard it a hundred times) - 3 DVD's at a time, unlimited for $17.99 a month. When you're done with one . . . you mail it back . . . and they send you another.
Sounds pretty cool, right?
But when you subscribe, they don't tell you about the
"QUEUE."
You gotta keep your
Queue up to date.
You gotta keep what you want next at the top of your
Queue.
You gotta browse so you can find movies to put in your
Queue.
You gotta rate movies that you return so that Netflix can show you movies that are similar to the ones you like. So you can add them to your
Queue.
Cuz if you let your
Queue get out of control, Netflix might send you anything they want to send.
For example: I noticed on Thursday that I had three Netflix envelops in the house. Good Grief! How Can That Be?
You gotta keep those movies spinning. You gotta watch 'em and get 'em back in the mail. So you can get the next one at the top of your
Queue into your mail in-box.
In the fourteen months that I've had Netflix, I've had 123 Netflix movies in my house. That's just about two DVD's every weekend. Bottom Line: Each of those movies cost about $2.00 to watch. I can only imagine what it would have cost me to see those same 123 movies in a theater environment.
Maybe there's no late fees when you subscribe to Netflix. But there's pressure just the same. There's no mail on Monday because of President's Day.
How am I gonna get my movies back to Netflix so I can get two new ones by Friday.
I also gotta check my
Queue. And I gotta find what new releases are out next Tuesday. Maybe I just might drive down to the Post Office and at least get my DVD's in the mail flow for next week.
This Netflix is a lot of work.
123 Movies I've Watched in the Last Fourteen Months
The Departed 02/17/07
Mission Impossible III 02/16/07
Ellen Degeneres: Here and Now
02/13/07
The Constant Gardener
02/06/07
Lady in the Water
02/05/07
Inside Man
02/05/07
Lies & Alibis
01/30/07
The Illusionist
01/29/07
Pablo Francisco: Ouch! Live from San Jose
01/29/07
Stargate Atlantis: Rising (Pilot Episode)
01/24/07
Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together
01/23/07
The Break-Up
01/22/07
The Triangle: Disc 2 (2-Disc Series)
01/09/07
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time
01/09/07
The Triangle: Disc 1 (2-Disc Series) 01/03/07
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
01/03/07
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
01/02/07
Syriana
12/28/06
Slipstream
12/27/06
Time Changer
12/21/06
The Da Vinci Code
12/21/06
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
12/18/06
Bill Hicks: Sane Man
12/11/06
Click
12/11/06
5ive Days to Midnight: Disc 1 (2-Disc Series)
12/05/06
5ive Days to Midnight: Disc 2 (2-Disc Series) 12/05/06
Pablo Francisco: Bits and Pieces
11/28/06
The World's Fastest Indian
11/22/06
Richard Jeni: A Big Steaming Pile of Me
11/15/06
Cars
11/14/06
This Girl's Life
11/07/06
Dead Like Me: Season 2: Disc 4 (4-Disc Series)
11/07/06
Corpse Bride
11/06/06
Dead Like Me: Season 2: Disc 3 (4-Disc Series) 11/01/06
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
10/31/06
Dead Like Me: Season 2: Disc 2 (4-Disc Series) 10/31/06
The Lake House
10/27/06
Dead Like Me: Season 2: Disc 1 (4-Disc Series) 10/24/06
Dead Like Me: Season 1: Disc 4 (4-Disc Series)
10/18/06
The Long Kiss Goodnight
10/16/06
Dead Like Me: Season 1: Disc 3 (4-Disc Series) 10/09/06
Game 6
10/09/06
Me and You and Everyone We Know
10/09/06
Dead Like Me: Season 1: Disc 2 (4-Disc Series) 09/25/06
Sin City
09/08/06
Dead Like Me: Season 1: Disc 1 (4-Disc Series) 09/08/06
Moonlight Mile
08/29/06
Mad City
08/29/06
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
08/22/06
Garden State
08/11/06
Four Brothers
08/09/06
Nine Lives
08/08/06
This Is Spinal Tap
07/31/06
The Family Stone
07/27/06
Just Like Heaven
07/26/06
Down by Law
07/18/06
Match Point
07/18/06
Firewall
07/18/06
The Matador
07/14/06
Failure to Launch
07/10/06
11:14
07/10/06
Novocaine
07/03/06
16 Blocks
07/03/06
The Final Cut
07/03/06
Primer
06/26/06
Windtalkers
06/23/06
A Murder of Crows
06/21/06
The Pink Panther
06/20/06
Rocky & Bullwinkle: The Best of Fractured Fairy Tales: Vol. 1
06/14/06
King Kong
06/05/06
Better Off Dead
05/31/06
Domino
05/26/06
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
05/16/06
The Cave
05/15/06
The Jacket
05/10/06
Lord of War
05/09/06
Constantine
05/02/06
Bandits
05/02/06
Capote
05/02/06
Memoirs of a Geisha
04/27/06
Walk the Line
04/25/06
The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Vol. 1
04/20/06
Fun with Dick and Jane
04/20/06
The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle: Vol. 1
04/12/06
Broken Flowers
04/04/06
Pushing Tin
04/04/06
The Usual Suspects
04/03/06
Dark City
03/27/06
Narrow Margin
03/22/06
Rising Sun
03/20/06
The Transporter
03/20/06
City Hall
03/17/06
Proof
03/15/06
The Weather Man
03/14/06
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
03/13/06
The Island
03/10/06
The Terminal
03/10/06
Dirty Pretty Things
03/07/06
Undermind
03/07/06
The Ice Harvest
03/06/06
Red Eye
03/03/06
Wedding Crashers
03/02/06
Lawrence of Arabia
02/28/06
Zathura
02/28/06
It Had to Be You
02/27/06
The Package
02/22/06
Arrested Development: Season 1: Disc 2 (3-Disc Series)
02/22/06
Must Love Dogs
02/20/06
Seven
02/15/06
Flightplan
02/15/06
Under Suspicion
02/15/06
Arrested Development: Season 1: Disc 1 (3-Disc Series) 02/10/06
Capricorn One
02/03/06
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
02/03/06
March of the Penguins
01/24/06
Bewitched
12/28/05
The Longest Yard
12/28/05
Serenity
12/27/05
Running Scared
12/23/05
Firefly: Disc 4 (4-Disc Series)
12/22/05
Firefly: Disc 3 (4-Disc Series) 12/20/05
Firefly: Disc 1 (4-Disc Series) 12/19/05
Firefly: Disc 2 (4-Disc Series) 12/19/05
O. J. Cunningham
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O. J. Cunningham is the Publisher of MyBayCity.com. Cunningham previously published Sports Page & Bay City Enterprise. He is the President/CEO of OJ Advertising, Inc.
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