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Which 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 o

by jdvolz 15y ago

Which 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 ago
Netflix 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 ago
  If 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 ago
  It'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 ago
    Isn't the length of those windows determined by what Netflix is willing to pay? Or do the content owners restrict it?
    - X-Istence 15y ago
      Content 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 ago
  Yup. 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 ago
That 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Pacino film on streaming some time ago because it was about to expire, and I wondered if the app's WI database might be out of date.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 ago
You 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.

by jdvolz 15y ago

wahnfrieden 15y ago

Netflix 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 ago
If 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 ago
It'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 ago
  Isn't the length of those windows determined by what Netflix is willing to pay? Or do the content owners restrict it?
  - X-Istence 15y ago
    Content 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 ago
Yup. 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 ago

That 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 ago

You 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.