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You might want to double check "Gladiator" because I'm pretty sure the one on IMDB isn't the one available on Netflix instant. :) I told my wife this was one
by jdvolz 15y ago
You might want to double check "Gladiator" because I'm pretty sure the one on IMDB isn't the one available on Netflix instant. :)
I told my wife this was one of the most important web pages I'd looked at in a long time.
- mortenjorck 15y agoSame thing for Heat. I was expecting Al Pacino and ended up with Joe Dallesandro.
- jdvolz 15y agoWhich is strange because I'm pretty sure I watched the Al Pacino version of Heat on Netflix instant in the least 6 months. Edit: I just checked and it's not on instant, but I'm pretty sure I watched it on instant recently.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoNetflix routinely adds films to Instant Watch that it will only keep for N months, presumably to keep an interesting stream of new titles available while saving costs on licensing.
- alexqgb 15y agoIf you use Twitter, you can follow @queuenoodle (http://twitter.com/#!/queuenoodle http://twitter.com/#!/queuenoodle). It'll let you know when titles are expiring about a week in advance.
- Terretta 15y agoIt's not to save costs on licensing. It's because those titles are going in and out of licensing 'windows' and Netflix isn't allowed to offer them.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoIsn't the length of those windows determined by what Netflix is willing to pay? Or do the content owners restrict it?
- X-Istence 15y agoContent owners restrict it, for example if a movie is about to be shown on television it will disappear from NetFlix's instant streaming service a week or two beforehand and re-appear a month or so afterwards.
- ptarjan 15y agoYup. I cache the API results for 7 days with a random chance of re-poll so I hopefully will notice when new releases happen. As for the parents, yeah, sorry :( I'm doing a match on the netflix title. I'll try to suck more data out of IMDB and make sure it is the correct movie. I'll put an expiry date column, good idea.
- mortenjorck 15y agoThat was actually partly why I clicked on it first: I remembered watching the Al Pacino film on streaming some time ago because it was about to expire, and I wondered if the app's WI database might be out of date.
- pstack 15y agoYou probably did. The major failing of Netflix is content churn. I can count on at least 20% of my queue disappearing every month, before I get around to watching it.
- ptarjan 15y agoI'm working on doing better matching than just title, sorry. Should be fixed by tmrw. As for your second comment. I'm elated! Thanks. You made my day.