Posted
10:13 AM
by Gene
When I clicked on the second page of
Dick "Synergy" Corliss's pointless diatribe about Netflix a Netflix pop-up ad popped up. Really Dick, aren't your bosses carrying their toadying a bit too far?
Getting movies by mail is, Netflix hopes, just a stage between the Blockbuster era of video stores and the imminent streaming of movies. You can already get 12,000 Netflix titles on your TV (if you have a Blu-ray player or spring for a $100 Netflix box). So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it'll come at a price. You'll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products.There's a line in Thomas Dekker's great play
The Honest Whore II that applies here: "Past shame, past penitence."