Posted on 11/29/2007 12:02:29 PM PST by JZelle
Time to start automatic downloads straight to your DVR.
What’s bizarre about this is that NetFlix has been fine-tuning their envelope for years.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/20/technology/business2_netflixgallery/index.htm
Seems like the first people that the Postal Service should have gone to with this problem is NetFlix.
My neighbor's like you, and started continually using our computer to access his stuff and pay his bills when his machine took a dump. It was a warranty thing, so it took him quite awhile to get up and running again.
“My neighbor’s like you, and started continually using our computer to access his stuff and pay his bills when his machine took a dump. It was a warranty thing, so it took him quite awhile to get up and running again.”
I can see where that would be a problem. My wife has her own laptop so we have backup as far as web access, not to mention I can access the bank’s site while at work.
I hope your neighbor had a backup hard drive.
Don’t cry for me Argentina...I remember penny postcards and twice a day delivery. Of course that was before a certain political group thought that it could take in a lot of donations if it sucked up to the mail order advertising industry and also allowed a postal union.
Private carriers are forced to charge more than the postal service on many small packages by law.
Believe me, after this last humungous rate hike the USPS is catching up fast! If you use the USPS for business mailing you already know what I mean.
Wow!I didn't know the internet was that advanced. Where can I invest?
“upgrade your pc, add a dvd burner.”
Will that actually work for Netflix downloaded movies? It looks as if they’re using a streaming type system, rather than downloading the entire movie as a divx or DVD image or something like that.
If you do get a file like that, I could use a USB thumb drive to watch the movies through my DVD player, which will play media on USB devices. Anybody actually doing this? Of course, I could just download pirated movies and do the same thing, but I don’t mind paying a reasonable amount to access media legally.
The Post Office already offers a deal. You get to send things 17 cents cheaper if you package it in such a way that it is machine sortable. However, the PO didn't do a very good job of defining machine sortable, and Netflix is taking advantage of that and using cheap, crappy materials that formally meet the specification, but are not machine sortable.
The Post Office should simply fix the specification so that it accurately represents what their machines can sort.
If the PO doesn't go for it, tell 'em to pound sand.
That would be brilliant since the next cheapest alternative that Netflix has to the Post Office will cost them at least 5 times as much. Netflix would be far, far better off simply paying the extra 17 cents per item for hand sorting than to quit using the Post Office, though using higher quality shipping envelopes would be even cheaper.
The USPS spends about a 1/4 of a billion a year in advertising. I guess no one would know what those Post office buildings in town were for without it!
The price of Priority is now too expensive and the tracking is horrible. I have been printing many labels at home for UPS these days...
My Dell 37" LCD TV is an awesome PC monitor and HD TV.
and chances are when your online bill pay sends out a check they use the USPS...
But we aren't talking about letter mail here.
(although express services provided at premium rates have an exemption from the monopoly)
Which legalized services offered by FedEx et al in competition with USPS Express mail, as distinguished from first class mail service.
Well, if the postal service allowed competition via private delivery of the mail, they wouldn’t have to complain about this.
I honestly dont care if 99.9999% of mail is email or handled by UPS/FedEX but structurally the sending of mail is the responsibility of the federal govt and should be a publically run service.
It doesn’t seem to support component video, only S-video and composite.
My first thoughts also. That, or work with these firms to redesign the package so it will work on their machinery.
All these postal types know how to do is raise rates.
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