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[trinityvixen]

Gotta love this article about the competition to improve Netflix's viewing suggestions. I, for one, think $1M is totally appropriate, if not even a little lean of a prize to offer. I've personally reviewed at least 1500 titles on Netflix only to get about one or two recommendations, usually out of the blue, no-way-I-would-ever-want-to-watch-that types. Sure, when you add something to the queue, you get a pop-up window with about ten new selections, but they're tiredly predictable. (Just because I wanted to see North by Northwest doesn't mean I have to see everything with Cary Grant or directed by Alfred Hitchcock nownownow.)

This is all relevant, too, seeing as the new Netflix-enabled XBOX 360 upgrade is, in a word, awesome. The picture quality is superb, and it automatically upgrades if you have the capability to broadcast the feed in HD. (We do, and we did.) It takes hardly any time at all to download and get started. (At least, one episode of a TV show did; I have not tried any movies just yet.) It works beautifully. Yes, you have to have a gold account to get the streaming across, but feiran does, and it didn't ask us to prove that she is in any way invested in my Netflix account. (The set up process took all of a minute. Bonus!)

And, relevant to this development: cinema is dead? (Again?) Yes, let us play the dirge for the cinema, it's gone gone gone. Because it's not like teenage girls just dropped $70M on Twililght this weekend or anything...

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Not surprising, since pacing was one of the biggest problems with the book. That and being inside Bella's thoroughly boring and self-involved head. Also, there'll be RPattz to look at, and even with the pancake makeup, the man is hot.