But, before Blockbuster started its own mailing service, you would have to wait several days for your video choice to arrive. Plus there’s the convenience of having it mailed directly to you, especially if you lived further away from a Blockbuster store I guess. Back when Netflix had virtually nothing to watch (as opposed to later when it merely has nothing WORTH watching, hehe🤪), it wasn’t so bad to have like one season of an old Star Trek mailed to you, even if you went to Blockbuster for actual movie titles.
More realistically, the article I am half recalling was probably trying to drum up subscriber numbers when Netflix was young and first starting out.
Anyway the point was that at one point in time their ratings system was actually considered quite GOOD, back before they got into pushing crap that they would rather you watch instead of stuff that you might actually enjoy.
But, before Blockbuster started its own mailing service, you would have to wait several days for your video choice to arrive. Plus there’s the convenience of having it mailed directly to you, especially if you lived further away from a Blockbuster store I guess. Back when Netflix had virtually nothing to watch (as opposed to later when it merely has nothing WORTH watching, hehe🤪), it wasn’t so bad to have like one season of an old Star Trek mailed to you, even if you went to Blockbuster for actual movie titles.
More realistically, the article I am half recalling was probably trying to drum up subscriber numbers when Netflix was young and first starting out.
Anyway the point was that at one point in time their ratings system was actually considered quite GOOD, back before they got into pushing crap that they would rather you watch instead of stuff that you might actually enjoy.