After hacking on the netflix contest it was fun to sign up for netflix and give the recommendation system a try. After putting in several hundred movies I now

After hacking on the netflix contest it was fun to sign up for netflix and give the recommendation system a try. After putting in several hundred movies I now typically only choose recommendations that it thinks I would rate a 4 or 5. Most are good and rank about what they think I will. This includes plenty of older movies including some silent films which I absolutely loved after seeing them where before I would have never even considered watching them. On the flip side the brand new movie of the month that I _must see_ and added to the top of my que I end up ranking much lower on average. So I would very much agree, on a given week I don't want to watch the new dvd/movie that just came out as it probably isn't that good compared to the top 500 of the last 100 years which I have only started going through.