My column this week focused on the Roku Netflix Player box, a cool set-top box that streams Netflix's Instant Watching queue to your TV over a broadband connection. After the column posted, I got a note from a guy at FeedFlix, which grabs statistics from your Netflix RSS feed and gives you a visual representation of how you're using your Netflix account.
It's free and easy to use, but the most interesting part is how it calculates the "average cost per movie" based on your subscription plan and how long you hold onto movies. I've discovered that I'm paying an average of $9.91 per movie, which means I'm holding onto movies a lot longer (I've had one DVD for 51 days now) than I probably should.
Another cool feature is that you can see compiled lists of other FeedFlix users, to see which movies are most anticipated, most popular, etc. Clicking on a title there brings you back to Netflix and is a quick and easy way to add additional movies to your queue.
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This why I dropped Netflix
I bet my average movie cost was similar to yours or higher, so we dropped Netflix at my house. Now we just "rent" a movie from Amazon Unbox when we want to watch something, which is like once a month or less.
yes, but you're watching it on your PC, right?
Not watching it on the TV, or is this the thing that's hooked up to your TiVo (which I also don't have)
Nope, TiVo
Can download right to TiVo and watch on my big screen. It's not HD and the entire Unbox collection is not available for TiVo yet, but they do have a lot of the new releases.
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