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neutrality: what is needed?

the neutrality tag is like a scarlet letter atop this article. The problem is, it is very difficult to describe what Netflix is and does without it sounding like an attractive & inexpensive service, because it is, objectively, both of these. The descriptions of Netflix gripes like throttling and limited selection are objectively described, what more do those who claim this article is not neutral demand?

Whoever re-added the neutrality tag in April seemed uninterested in even posting any explanation here on the talk page. If, for instance, the user who posted it was working from a Blockbuster IP, I would consider it vandalism.

Going through the page history, the word "neutral" appears in none of the edit summaries for the date given, and the neutrality tag was present well before the date given, so I assume someone probably accidentally removed and replaced the tag.

Does anyone still seriously dispute the article's neutrality? I'll revisit this question in a month's time, at which time I'll consider removing the tag unless substantive requests for changes are made. Bustter (talk) 12:30, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree with you, though I add the disclaimer that all tagged unsourced statements should be removed from the article to help avoid this issue in the future. I don't see anything in this article that especially screams "advertisement." -- Ryankiefer (talk) 07:32, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1500 Terrabytes

I'd recommend the comment about 1500 Terrabytes a day being as much as what travels the internet be removed. That's in the range of 150 Gbit/sec and I've been in two datacenters which together push 100 Gbit/sec and there are many more of that size and wihtin an order of magnitude.

PS3

The article seems to suggest that PS3 support is coming soon. That should be corrected since a PS3 disc is available: http://www.netflix.com/PS3

Advertising campaign

I'm not sure what the policy/consensus is regarding television/radio advertising with products, but should this article contain a section about the "quiz show" parody commercials that are heard on the radio for Netflix — not only their content (two totally nonsense questions posed to the contestant, followed by a question about one of Netflix's services) but about where the idea came from, etc.? It may be hard to research the idea behind the commericals, but just a thought. [[Briguy52748 (talk) 16:03, 2 July 2010 (UTC)]][reply]

Multiple Service Plans

Shouldn't a list of the different service plans, with prices and details, be on this page somewhere? 70.104.1.204 (talk) 01:17, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, i think that if someone wants to know that, they can go to Netflix's site. rone (talk) 08:58, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Which would be great, if they actually listed their plans and prices on their website. I scoured the site, but I can only find the cost of the base plan. --Scorp Stanton (talk) 06:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone doesn't mind, I'm going to set up bot archiving on this article.

This talk page is starting to get really long and unwieldy, so I'm gonna set up MiszaBot to autoarchive any threads older than 31 days. If anyone objects, please say so here within a day or two, otherwise I'm going to insert the necessary code and let the bot do its thing. elektrik SHOOS 18:46, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]