How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
For all the high praise that gets heaped on Netflix for their brilliant technology, I have a feeling there is some other Netflix that is concealed from me.<p>I have been Netflix customer for years. I thought the idea was brilliant - super-cheap movies arriving whenever you want, what could be better?! I loved Netflix. Then I slowly discovered Netflix is running out of movies I want to watch - up to now where about 95% of movies I want to see are out. Then there was that streaming vs. DVS fiasco - and I stayed with streaming. But then I discovered there's nothing for me to stream. I thought maybe my tastes are weird - so I went to wikipedia and IMDB and looked "top X movies" - and most of them, of course, can't be watched on Netflix, except for those few that I've already watched long ago.<p>And that million dollar recommendation system? I've over 800 ratings, and I have hard time remembering last time their system suggested me something useful. In fact, the only reason I am keeping the subscription is because my wife has some series on her sub-account that she's watching. For me, Netflix has become almost 100% useless. So I wonder, with all the high praise to their brilliant data usage and innovative technology - am I doing something wrong? Am I missing some important part of Netflix that everybody else is seeing?