{"id":17,"date":"2002-08-17T19:13:38-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-18T03:13:38+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2002-08-17T19:13:38-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-18T03:13:38+00:00","slug":"using-a-computer-to-rent-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/08\/17\/using-a-computer-to-rent-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a computer to rent&nbsp;movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>Ordering a movie via digital cable is a pain in the ass (PITA).  iTV has always been still-born service.  Netflix works well because you can do all you ordering online on a well designed website via a computer.  After you do that, the service runs itself.   Interactivity belongs on the computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jrobb.userland.com\/2002\/08\/12.html#a2279\">John Robb<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to disagree.  With a capable interactive television system, ordering a VOD (or SVOD) movie is as easy as selecting it from a menu and entering your PIN.  (I do this every day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberate.com\/\">work<\/a>&mdash;it&#8217;s not some idealistic fantasy.)  You don&#8217;t have to leave your sofa, let alone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/Static?id=5157\">wait &#8220;2-4 days&#8221; for the movies to arrive in your mailbox<\/a>.  And you don&#8217;t need a dedicated computer, just the settop box you&#8217;ve already renting from the cable company.  Netflix does have an advantage (currently) in that they&#8217;ve got a big selection of DVDs, but more convenient?  Nuh-uh.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ordering a movie via digital cable is a pain in the ass (PITA). iTV has always been still-born service. Netflix works well because you can do all you ordering online on a well designed website via a computer. After you do that, the service runs itself. Interactivity belongs on the computer. John Robb I&#8217;ve got&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}