And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely
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Netflix plans to award $1 million to the first person who can improve the accuracy of movie recommendations based on personal preferences.
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Beneath The Incredibles&#39; quick-tempo action, family fun and family feuds, this audacious computer-animated adventure asks a big question: If honors are bestowed upon everyone who simply shows
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Netflix offered a million dollars for a computer program that accurately predicts which films people will rent from its online service.
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Does it sometimes seem like Netflix knows your tastes better than your friends, your spouse, even you?
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Netflix has many reasons why it should avoid entering the video game rental market and one very important reason to go for it -- survival.
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Downloading movies over a high-speed Internet connection offers the promise of convenience, but promise is the operative word for this new method.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: With entertainment available on tap, we yearn for the real.
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Travel: Competition Send your suggestions, and you could win a luxury break.
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Steven Soderbergh's unabashedly trivial sequel may be slim pickings, but when it works, it's a blast.
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Wired's list of must-see movies you don't have to pay a cent for.
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The movie download offering from Netflix only offers older movies, so it is not a direct competitor to the new iTunes movie rental service, which emphasizes new releases.
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra's film calls for applause -- and deserves it.
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Comcast announced a service at CES that sounds an awful lot like Netflix. I already pay Comcast over $100 a month for various services. I pay Netflix $20 per month, and what Comcast is proposing is even more useful and easier than what Netflix offers. If it actually is, it would be easier to turn off the Netflix service. Netflix has a unique opportunity with X years of preference data for users that they still have active relationships with. Open the service up so that other websites can integrate their services with yours, the prototype being a dating site that matched people with others who like the same kinds of movies. Build a network of utility to lock users in with a feather instead of a deadbolt.  The uniqueness of Netflix is about to go poof. Time to build a new kind of uniqueness. It might be too late, but let's hope it's not. I don't really expect Comcast to share data with other service providers. It's not in their nature. Netflix -- zig while they match your (old) zag.
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In an obvious attempt to attract its rival's customers to its own online movie rental service, Blockbuster will let Netflix subscribers with a Blockbuster membership rent movies from its stores for free through December 21.
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It takes guts to chase  after an Oscar. It also takes serious money, luck, and insider  experience. Fail to land a nomination, and that cash doesn't  magically come back.
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DVD rental company Netflix   on Wednesday said it was developing a set-top box with LG  Electronics  to let subscribers watch movies  streamed directly from the Web to their TVs.