Comparing quality of films in the iTunes & Netflix libraries

Comments on the data visualization/interface:<p>1. Differentiate netflix/itunes by color or marker.<p>2. Find a better way to show density. Messing with the opacity would help, as would contrasting colors. Nothing fancy like 3D, just a way to convey the density of points.<p>3. K nearest neighbours is counter intuitive at first. A better layout/ui could have been that when you hover over a point, it shows up to the right as one big poster, without any neighbours.<p>You have good data that is trapped in that scatter plot.

Doesn't it make sense that if there will be 100,000 available titles, then the average percentage will be even lower? Why is he trying to suggest that just because Netflix has more titles that means the quality is poorer so people watch fewer movies on Netflix?

Wife and I spend a few hundred dollars a year via itunes on shows and movies we love and want to own in high quality.<p>We also pay netflix under ten bucks a month and for that we save a few hundred dollars each month vs what it would cost to itunes all those shows.<p>Can anyone say how Amazon's streaming offering compares with netflix? Is it basically the same shows and movies (meaning we should go for one or the other?)

This would be more interesting if goodfil.ms actually had TV shows. The top 40 or so of my Netflix instant streaming are TV shows and I've already watched a ton previously.<p>Movies, I don't care so much about... otherwise, I'd just use Redbox.

I'm really interested in watching this space, in Australia there's a few Netflix competitors (QFlicks I think, which I have on my PS3), and there's literally very little of interest in their library.<p>On the other hand, the Apple TV is $110 now, and the library is quite large, and the quality is great!<p>We don't have Netflix in Australia so it's pretty much a one man show in terms of viable alternatives.

Does anyone know of a site that shows this sort of data with Amazon Prime movies?

I've found Apple and Amazon beat Netflix on content, and Amazon always beats Apple on price.

As a person that watches Netflix almost every single night, for often times hours on end, how does Netflix's unlimited streaming compare in price to Apple's offering?<p>The 8 or whatever dollars a month is VERY well used by me; and, I go to vudu or Red box for the things I might want to watch that aren't available.

I haven't tried Netflix, but I love that I can now see all the films in my queue that are available on iTunes.

I'd like to see netflix's library compared with films on imdb above a certain rating and number of reviewers. I'm pretty sure you'd see similar numbers like %1.5. Would also be interesting to filter this by dates. I'm sure there aren't many new movies on Netflix of high quality. Kind of a shame.

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What useless data points, totally subjective and boil down to popularity almost immediately.

Good to see that "Aguirre Wrath of God" is tops in quality and rewatchability.

The size of the library is important, but more relevant is creating value for the customer. In my case, both Netflix and iTunes shit the bed. I want an interface where my wife and I can sit on the couch and collectively pick out a movie to watch. iTunes and AppleTV offer a large catalogue, but never "sells" the movie. There are no user ratings or any other information to give us confidence (false or otherwise) to buy. Content is available, but not discoverable in iTunes. Netflix was once solid, but they oversimplified the interface and now there is no way to browse by genre.<p>That being said, I think there is an opportunity for something like "goodfilms", but I signed up and it combines the worst parts of itunes with the worst parts of netflix. I am not sure who it helps. Even the cute chart they present is deeply flawed from a UI perspective. They could have at least color coded the dots.

If Netflix would give me a $20 / month streaming option that enabled me to get access to a good library of movies, I'd pay it without hesitation. Their selection is shockingly horrible. Feels like walking into a second rate VHS rental store in the 1980s.

Buried for not being an analysis of PICTURE quality.