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I'm probably wrong here, but it seems to me that storage is practically cheap enough (not quite) that Netflix could simply send out a drive with their whole library and then a membership gives you access codes.

Send out a new drive per year.

Do they really only have 4,000 movies in the US?

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I doubt my subscription would cover the cost of that drive every year, even if I wanted to wait 12 months for new content!

Imagine how small the drive would be if it just had 'things I might ever watch'.

The size for 100% isn't even that big given a few iterations of storage tech.

I'm just blown away by how little Netflix really gives you. Given the push to internally-financed programming they've basically become a production company with streaming bolted onto the back end. Their market cap is kind of a joke.

> The size for 100% isn't even that big given a few iterations of storage tech.

Okay? :-)

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