{"id":656,"date":"2010-09-22T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squids.ca\/Blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-09-22T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T02:57:15","slug":"netflix-canada-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Canada&#8230;meh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, like a lot of people, I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.ca\">Netflix in Canada<\/a> was gonna be great.\u00c2\u00a0 $8.00 a month for unlimited movies and TV shows.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like a deal!\u00c2\u00a0 Not so fast.\u00c2\u00a0 Have a look at the comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2010\/09\/netflix-launches-in-canada.html\">Netflix Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Selection is piss poor.\u00c2\u00a0 I really want to give it a chance, but 19 out of 20 titles I looked for were &#8220;Not Available&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Not one &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;, Quentin Tarentino movie, not one classic we looked for (Gone with the Wind, Casablanca), not one TV show, (Glee, House)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are probably about 8 movies available that I would like to see.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I can watch them in my free month and then cancel.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad &#8212; it shows promise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m left wondering what the problem is.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it the f***ing CRTC again &#8212; man they bug me?\u00c2\u00a0 CanCon? Is it that Global and CTV have bought up the rights to everything?\u00c2\u00a0 Or is it Netflix just rolling out a half baked system.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess only time will tell, but if it&#8217;s longer than a month, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;ll die soon afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, like a lot of people, I thought Netflix in Canada was gonna be great.\u00c2\u00a0 $8.00 a month for unlimited movies and TV shows.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like a deal!\u00c2\u00a0 Not so fast.\u00c2\u00a0 Have a look at the comments on the Netflix Blog. Selection is piss poor.\u00c2\u00a0 I really want to give it a chance, but 19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}