The only part of 'profile' that matters is the separate queues. That will be gone... web GUI tricks won't affect the Netflix shipping department.
I DON'T think Netflix would have done this if Walmart was still alive in their DVD rental business.
Last I checked Blockbuster's online store worked poorly in FireFox... and if the stores are any indication, probably all of their movies default to "full screen" (pan and scan).
My favorite is GreenCine.com... but they only ship from the west coast, and movie turnover is VERY slow.
Ok, so keep the queue on the browser side. Keep feeding the netflix queue one at a time to mimic multiple queues. It's not an ideal emulation of the real multiple queues, but it might be passable.
If you have a large queue, then when viewing the full queue in Firefox it is pretty slow. Way too much AJAX going on. But I'm not even sure if they have full screen movies on their site, at least the default has always been widescreen for me. And I haven't seen a full screen movie in the store in years either.
GUI tricks can separate the one queue into two queues, which is all that happens with profiles.
Unfortunately that is not all that happens with profiles. Profiles allow me to create a queue for television series, return an episode disc and be garuanteed another television series. Instead I will now have to micromanage my queue and interweave tv series into movies.
That doesn't even keep into mind the ability to separate ratings, parental controls, etc.
Yes, having mom and dad and 2 children all submit ratings into a single profile will ruin recommendations for all 4 users, and there's no workaround for that.
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".
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I DON'T think Netflix would have done this if Walmart was still alive in their DVD rental business.
Last I checked Blockbuster's online store worked poorly in FireFox... and if the stores are any indication, probably all of their movies default to "full screen" (pan and scan).
My favorite is GreenCine.com... but they only ship from the west coast, and movie turnover is VERY slow.
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Unfortunately that is not all that happens with profiles. Profiles allow me to create a queue for television series, return an episode disc and be garuanteed another television series. Instead I will now have to micromanage my queue and interweave tv series into movies.
That doesn't even keep into mind the ability to separate ratings, parental controls, etc.
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The movie ratings matter to some people too. Lots of multiple profile users have very different preferences.
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