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Friday, April 28th, 2006 Will Leave a comment Go to comments

I have been a Netflix member for a little over 2 years now. I use it mostly for TV shows and movies that would be hard to find at Blockbuster or Movie Gallery. They opened a distribution center in Jackson within the past year, so for the most part the DVD’s get here faster than when they were coming from Georgia. Another positive is that I can keep DVD’s as long as I want to. I usually don’t keep them very long. It seems like a waste of money to hold on to a movie for an extended period of time. My biggest problem is that if you rent a lot of movies, you don’t get a high priority because they don’t make money off you. Google the phrase “Netflix throttling” and you’ll see what I mean.

I promised myself at the beginning of the month that I wouldn’t rearrange my queue for the rest of the month of April. The last time I rearranged it was on April 1. The problem is that I keep moving DVD’s to the top and I’ll never get to some of the movies farther down the list. The only thing I’ve allowed myself to do is remove DVD’s that I rented from Movie Gallery or Blockbuster. I currently have 355 DVD’s (a lot of them are TV shows with multiple discs) in my queue. I don’t know that I’ll ever see them all. Even though I haven’t really been tempted to break my promise, I’m glad the month is almost over. I’ve already planned out what I’m going to make my top 20 items when May 1 gets here. Some of them are made up of multiple discs: