100,000 Titles?

I wonder if Netflix exaggerated the number of titles they have. They boasted more than 100,000 titles. But for a TV series like 24, does it count as 1 title for the whole seasons or does each session count as one title? Do they count each DVD in each season as separate titles and hence further exaggerating the number of titles they have? Anybody knows?

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Permalink Reply by Rubber Ducky on December 21, 2008 at 4:48am: It would be dishonest for Netflix to count each DVD in a TV series as a separate title. Jack Bauer 24 would count as 144 titles. Alias would count as 105. Seinfeld would count as 180. Each of these TV Series should only count as 1 title.

If this is how they count their titles, the number of UNIQUE titles would be far less than 100,000. The actual number would probably be like 5,000 to 10,000. Far smaller than what they claim.

Granted, Netflix still has the most DVD collection for us to rent but they should be more open and honest on how they count their DVD collection.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ewd76 on December 21, 2008 at 8:50am: If one were to apply your logic to this, then every movie that has been remade should only count as one title, even though each remake is not an exact replica of the original.

Oddly enough, I agree. Maybe we need a new term for what we are talking about, because I do not see remakes of movies which happen to share the same "title" as being on the same level as disk 2 of a miniseries or series season set.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ColdOne on December 21, 2008 at 9:52am: What makes you think he can even count past 100 or so? Certainly not anything he's posted here.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RonMc on December 21, 2008 at 10:56am: You should talk. Under your business model for NF, all they would need is about 1 disc of 1 title, since everyone is supposed to NOT rent anything. That way, All 1 title would be available All the time.

But if you paid Extra for Premium Service, you'd be first in line NOT to rent anything.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rubber Ducky on December 21, 2008 at 4:51pm: My logic is the same logic as www.imdb.com uses to count the titles. IMDB counts the original The Day The Earth Stool Still as one title. It counts the remade as a separate title. But it counts the whole series of 24 as one title and not counting each 42 minutes episode as a separate title.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by alpha309 on December 21, 2008 at 11:14am: I believe that each thing that they claim as part of the 100,000 is each individual thing that can be rated. This would make seasons in TV count as one selection. Your estimation of 5,000 to 10,000 would be way off. I own almost 700 titles and only 2 are not in Netflix's library. I have rated another 1,100 that I have watched through Neflix, have a full 500 independent titles in my queue, and another 300 in my independent queue. Netfliz then recommends 2420 more films for me to watch. So lets take these numbers 700+1100+500+300+2420 = 5020. I know for a fact that there are another 1000-2000 movies that I want to watch other than this. Also there are people who have rated 10,000 movies and more easily.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ewd76 on December 21, 2008 at 11:58am: I believe that each thing that they claim as part of the 100,000 is each individual thing that can be rated.

That would make sense.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Adrian on December 21, 2008 at 5:15pm: A TV series with episodes can't have ratings on individual episodes, so its not ratings.

The number given is the number of different discs that you can rent. Since the subscription and service is specified in terms of renting discs it makes perfect sense to list it this way. If you eventually rented every different DVD that Netflix has you would get over 100,000 envelopes in the mail.

The list of different things at IMDB is based on a completely different business model, they aren't trying to rent movies.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pihk on December 21, 2008 at 6:02am: This is all so incredibly interesting.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by johny5 on December 21, 2008 at 9:21am: Here's one to ponder,
Do they include the titles labled as (unknown)?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Travis Moon on December 24, 2008 at 9:08pm: How would you lable a unknown disk if it is "unknown" If that was the case then how would you know how to count the unknown. Would anyone know an unknown if it was known?; ▶ Reply to This