Comments on: Netflix profiles going away, boo!

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:30:26 +0000

If you're interested in an easy way to save your ratings, you can use a service I crated called "Save My Ratings" that allows you to download a CSV of your ratings from Netflix and other movie sites. You can also copy your ratings from Netflix into Amazon, Blockbuster, Yahoo , RottenTomatoes…etc.. or vis-versa. I currently supported movie sites include Netflix, Amazon, Blockbuster, IMBD, Yahoo, Flixster and Rottentomatoes. Check it out Save My Ratings Feedback is appreciated. Cheers, - Alan

By: Cancel your Netflix! Rally Together! « Stephanie’s Thoughts

Cancel your Netflix! Rally Together! « Stephanie’s Thoughts — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:06:50 +0000

[...] are equally distributed between us. NOT HAPPENING. I’d rather cancel and others feel the same [...]

By: MovieBoy

MovieBoy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:29:29 +0000

Thank you Netflix! You’ve decided to keep profiles! I feel like I just avoided a nasty breakup with a really good girlfriend. As a ‘thank you’ I raised my subscription to the next level. You’ve proven that you really are the best! Thanks again!

By: The Power of Web 2.0 « A. Tee. Dub.

The Power of Web 2.0 « A. Tee. Dub. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:09:12 +0000

[...] Greg provides an excellent description of their poorly thought out strategy, and Stephanie mirrors my opinions. Then lo and behold, I received this email yesterday afternoon: We Are Keeping Netflix Profiles [...]

By: ch0wda

ch0wda — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:37:01 +0000

Good news. They appear to have rescinded this policy decision.

By: helvella

helvella — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:55:56 +0000

If you want to save or copy ratings and queued movies to another account, you can use netflix_mover.

By: xhalarin

xhalarin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:10:24 +0000

If you are worried about loosing your ratings, I recommend using this tool to back them up:
http://tenhanna.com/greasemonkey/

I just used it to back up the ratings on three profiles of mine and it worked great. It will create tab-delimited text that you can save locally.

In a perfect world, this output could then be used to import into some other rental service. I have already contacted Intelliflix (http://www.intelliflix.com/) customer service to see if they would be interested in providing this service. If so, I’m going to try them out as their service looks very promising and has the separate user profiles under one account and ability to restrict profiles by movie rating. It would probably help if more people contacted them as well.

If you are going to try the above referenced tool, I would do it ASAP as it is possible that Netflix could make some site update that would render it useless.

Good luck!

By: MovieBoy

MovieBoy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:44:08 +0000

Petitions don’t mean anything. Hit them where it counts. Money is the only thing this monster will understand. Here is my plan: On sept 1 if profiles are eliminated I will suspend my netflix account and take free trials one after another from other providers for as long as they will last. If netflix doesn’t give in and re-instate profiles I go with whatever new provider impressed me the most. Complaining is one thing, real actions is another. Read and Heed!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:46:45 +0000

I certainly don’t want my husband’s ratings to be mixed in with mine since we have very different tastes in movies and tend to score the ones we have in common quite differently. This is ridiculous. I like the suggestion of limiting the number of movies in each queue instead of doing away with multiple profiles.

Does anyone know of a similar movie rental program that has multiple queues? If so, I think we’d consider switching companies.

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:15:44 +0000

Well, I guess I’m done with NF (after 8 years) dropping this feature is just plain stupid.

If I have to interleave stuff I’m watching (like The Wire) with the garbage my wife rents… forget it…

/John