See Future Netflix Streaming Availability with FeedFliks
Fans of Netflix’s Streaming service should find our latest update to FeedFliks really useful. Starting today, FeedFliks lets you see what titles are going to be available on future dates via Netflix Streaming on the Coming Soon To Streaming page. For instance, on Monday, March 1st, 2010, Netflix is going to make more than 50 additional titles available for watch via Streaming. Some of the better known titles are:
Other interesting titles cued up for later in March include
- The Rock (available March 5th)
- Far From Heaven (March 5th)
- Angels and Demons (March 11th)
- The Sixth Sense (March 12th)
- The Proposal (March 13th)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (March 13th)
- When Harry Met Sally (March 16th)
- Julie & Julia (March 23rd)
For a full list, take a look at FeedFliks’ Coming Soon To Streaming page. Note, however, that titles sometimes get pulled at the very last minute. This appears to have happened with The Bridges of Madison County which was to have become available on March 1st but now is no longer scheduled to be available at all via Streaming. As and when these titles do become available, you’ll be able to use FeedFliks to either add the title to your Instant Queue or to Play the title right there.
Just bookmark the Coming Soon To Streaming page and be one of the first to know about interesting new titles that become available on Streaming because Netflix is not sitting still. In addition to the 180 odd titles scheduled for Streaming availability in March, an addition 250+ titles are being cued up for future months. Hit us up in the comments if you are interested in a month-by-month list of future streaming title availability.
Are you being throttled?
I recently added both Inglourious Basterds and In The Loop to my queue and saw that they were both ‘Long Waits’ for me. However, two friends who I’d just persuaded to try out Netflix both reported having been quickly shipped these exact two titles as their very first titles from Netflix! It was enough to make me wonder if I was being singled out for this treatment or if the demand just totally outstripped supply for these titles.
To help answer this question, we’ve added a new visualization to movie title pages on FeedFliks. You’ll now be able to see the statues for any title bucketed by these wait times. For example , the #1 most in-demand title today Inglourious Basterds and it is Available Now for some 60% of everyone who has queued this title: this graph is right below the DVD box art on the FeedFliks page. On the other hand, the #2 most queued title, The Hurt Locker is Available Now for almost no one and in Long/Very Long Waits for over 40% of everyone. So, if you’ve been ‘Very Long Waited’ for The Hurt Locker, you are not alone. (500) Days of Summer is also in the most queued list but is Available Now for more than 90% of those who want it. If you’ve been long-waited for this title, by all means, reach for that tin foil hat. After all, it’s not paranoia when they really are out to get you!
What’s the first movie Netflix ever shipped?
Sleepy Hollow
Ever wondered what movie was in that very first red envelope Netflix sent out? The oldest we have in the FeedFliks database is Sleepy Hollow which was shipped out to a subscriber on 18th July 2000 and returned to Netflix on the 5th of August. Netflix was in business atleast a couple years before that so does anyone out there have a DVD shipment even older than July 2000?
What was *your* first Netflix movie – and when did you rent it? Ours was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in July 2007.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
35 Criterion Collection Films Now On Netflix Instant Watch
This includes titles such as Seven Samurai, Walkabout, Yojimbo, Rashomon, Wild Strawberries and Gomorrah.
The full list is at http://criterioncast.com/2009/12/21/criterion-on-netflix/
FeedFliks now lets you see and share more of your ratings
FeedFliks is now trying to help you access and share more of your ratings. Earlier, most FeedFliksers saw no more than 20 of their most recent Netflix ratings.
Now, we’re checking if you’ve rated any of the movies that you’ve rented/streamed in the past. This has helped us pull in millions of more ratings across all our users and most of you should be able to see many more than just the 20 you’ve seen thus far. Further, rather than just list your ratings one after the other, FeedFliks is now allowing you to show off your ‘Ratings Shelf’ – this is a list of the movies you’ve rated from Loved (5 stars) through to Hated (1 star). We’ll pick 5 titles at random for each rating level and show them to you. You can also share this page – on Facebook or Twitter or via email. The link to this is your FeedFliks page followed by a /ratings. For example: http://feedfliks.com/raghus/ratings
Remember: Your Netflix movie ratings are private by default so if you want to share them, you’ll need to explicity make this page public by going to http://feedfliks.com/sharing.
Sorting for your DVD Queue as well
You could already sort your Instant Queue on http://feedfliks.com. Now, you can sort your DVD Queue as well. We’ve also added two handy links – the ability to sort by Predicted Rating and the ability to see if any titles that were already in your Queue but not yet available on DVD have become available recently.
We’ve updated our Twitter account
Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve updated our Twitter account from @ffalerts to @feedfliks
Use FeedFliks Search to find only watchable titles
Watchability Factor
In an earlier post, we announced that FeedFliks was going to be start showing you a ’sit-through factor’ which was a percentage measure of how much of a streaming title people actually got through.
We’re now allowing you to search Netflix’s catalog by using this as an additional filter. Right below the ‘Format’ dropdown (where we added Blu-ray last month) is a slider you can use to set a minimum percentage value that the title should have been watched for.
Right now, this filter is applicable only to Instant Watch titles. However, with over 17,000 titles on Netflix Streaming, we figured everyone could use this to eliminate particularly boring titles.
If you’ve got any suggestions to make FeedFliks Search even better, please leave us a comment.
Sort your Instant Queue
Over at HackingNetflix, Mike asked his readers for suggestions on improving streaming and there were a few readers requesting the ability to sort their Instant Queue. That was something on our to-do list for a while and and we spent a little while finishing it up over here at FeedFliks and we rolled it out last night.
Under your Instant Watch Queue you’ll now be able to sort your queue by a variety of options: Alphabetically, Expiring First, Genre, Duration etc. We hope this is useful to all of you!
How much of a movie do people sit through?
Outsourced - Sit through Factor
We thought it would be interesting to see how much of a movie people actually get through before they give up. Now while that’s impossible to do with DVDs, it’s quite easy to figure it out for Netflix’s Instant Watch titles. Starting today, for all stream-able titles, FeedFliks will be able so show you just how much of the movie people were able to sit through. You’ll be able to see a ‘Sit through Factor’ right under the ‘Play’ button as shown.
Right now, Outsourced has a 86% factor which I guess means that it’s pretty watchable. Some other interesting movies:
Good Night, and Good Luck is at 68%
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is at 76%
On the other hand, The Blood of My Brother which Netflix’s synopsis says is “A gripping documentary from filmmaker Andrew Berends…” is at 24%. Is it possible that the writer of the synopsis was referring to people gripping their remotes as they rushed to find the ‘Pause/Stop’ button?
We’re hoping you’ll find this useful to check before you blow a lot of time on a really bad movie 
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