Monday, August 06, 2012

How many movies in a month?

Famous tech writer Mark Malkoff is... crazy, is almost the word. As a challenge he tried how many Netflix movies he could watch in one month. The answer is: 252! Two hundred and fifty-two! Holy moly. Okay, this brought the price down to 3.2 cents per movie, pretty remarkable, but I just don't see how anybody could even do it.

6 comments:

Hank Jones said...

That doesn't seem possible. What's the average length of a movie? 90 minutes? Many would be longer. Not possible.

Ken said...

It is possible. He says about 404 hours of movies, which is about 13.5 hours/day over 30 days.

Anonymous said...

It's not the number of hours that's the problem but the number of movies. Some of them must have been pretty short. You could only manage it if they were all no more than 90 minutes.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

If I did that stunt, that's those I'd select.

Sam Rockwell said...

Would it work with TV shows, or does Netflix only have movies? I'm not sure about doing a stunt like that once some clown's already done it.

Anonymous said...

Mark Malkoff is really an irritating weasel. I could see him getting shoved into many a locker in high school.