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.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.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?