The Hangover and Memento: what's the difference?
The biggest news in the entertainment world today is the Canadian debut of Netflix, the movie and TV series subscriber service that’s threatening pay-per-view cable offerings and the already beleaguered video rental business. But Netflix’s chief executive Reed Hastings denies that his company will kill cable. “We’re like a bicycle compared to the car,” he said at a press conference. “We’re a supplement.”
Indeed. Between caps on bandwidth and the inability to deliver DVDs to users’ doorsteps, which is an option for American Netflix users, Hastings is right in his conservative approach to the Canadian launch. And since the service is still new, the film options aren’t as bountiful as we’d expected. Popular titles, like The Hangover, were missing, and the site offered some interesting alternatives:
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