How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?

Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by jmilloy on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:04AM (#27760650)

Yes, the streaming movie catalogue today is probably <1% of the DVD catalogue from the AI challenge days.

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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by capitainenemo on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:08AM (#27761285)

The DVD catalogue is still available. They even have an app for impulse adds :) https://dvd.netflix.com/App

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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by jmilloy on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:53AM (#27761801)

Yeah. I finally gave up on it last year not because of the catalogue, but because the turnaround got too slow. Individually renting movies to stream is better all-around.

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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by capitainenemo on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:09PM (#27768095)

It's still working out ok for us. We're doing the 2 DVDs at a time, and while I understand netflix always was suspected of "rate-limiting" people who had too much churn, we must not be anywhere near that since turnaround is still just a few of days. We're not impulse watchers so it's fine.

It's still tons cheaper than individual stream rentals, there's more device flexibility, a lot more choice, doesn't require blackbox DRM on the devices (they are probably going to force secure enclaves on linux for their DRM at some point once the kernel patches propagate).

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