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Review Of Netflix DVD Rental Service
Bigbird504 writes "If you haven't already heard of Netflix, they basically rent DVDs online... but for a price of $20/month. While many believe it isn't worth it, many others do feel its a good bargain. Afterall, you can take out 3 DVDs at a time. Best of all, there are no late fees on returns. You keep the DVD as long as you like, and return it when you are done. Its a pretty interesting concept, and may be well worth the money. Check out this review on Netflix."
have to pay for this advertisment or is this in some way that i am missing news?
This is a fine example of a story that forgets that large part of Slashdot readers don't live in US. For them it's spectacularly irrelevant if Netflix is worth the money or not, since they can't use it anyway.
It's true that it seems possible to exclude stories in the "United states" category, but how many readers bother going through all the prefs options - and not all US stories are uninteresting. Stories should mention it when the product in question is available in US only.
Offtopic? Slashdot posting a frontpage story that's nothing more than an advertisement for Netflix and then this reader pointing out the obvious is "offtopic"? Sounds like the Slashdot editors are trawling the comments again looking to mod down anything that might bring a spark of realization to the masses that this site has seriously gone downhill over the last couple of years once it went commercial (Andover).