{"id":167,"date":"2009-12-29T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/back-to-netflix\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:06:35","slug":"back-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/back-to-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

About two years ago I wrote about switching from Netflix to Blockbuster<\/a>, well, now I am switching back to Netflix.<\/p>\n

The reasons for the reversal:<\/p>\n

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  1. Netflix now streams movies to my PC (in home office), Xbox 360 (in living room), and PS3 (in bedroom) :). I only ask that they expand the online streaming selection to include newer movies, even if I have to pay an extra per movie fee for that (I don’t like to pay XBox Live or Playstation Network $5 to see a movie, that is such a rip off)<\/li>\n
  2. Netflix now is much better at shipping out blockbuster titles without a long wait (I actually timed Blockbuster vs Netflix head to head on a number of popular new movies, Netflix always shipped out first)<\/li>\n
  3. Netflix’s web user interface is more intuitive and much snappier than Blockbuster’s, especially when it comes to editing the movie queue and moving things around.<\/li>\n
  4. Last, but not least, previously with Blockbuster when I dropped a movie at the physical store, I could pickup another movie from the store then they immediately shipped another movie from my queue. They changed that system, they now don’t ship another movies from the queue until I return the movie I picked from the store. Furthermore, they now limit the number of in-store swaps that you can do. This was actually one of the main reasons why I started looking at Netflix again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bye bye Blockbuster.<\/p>\n

    — amr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    About two years ago I wrote about switching from Netflix to Blockbuster, well, now I am switching back to Netflix. The reasons for the reversal: Netflix now streams movies to my PC (in home office), Xbox 360 (in living room), and PS3 (in bedroom) :). I only ask that they expand the online streaming selection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}