With the release of the NXE in late 2008, I’ve had the opportunity to sign up for a Netflix account and utilize the excellent Instant Watch feature. My wife and I have completely devoured The Office, and we’re now whittling away at 30 Rock, both of which have been delivered largely in a version of dazzling high-definition.
Tygerfyr, also a recent Netflix Instant Watch crusader, recently brought up a somewhat puzzling issue. He is now consuming Dead Like Me, and he has found two strange problems:
- Some of the episodes are in 4:3, while others are in 16:9. I assumed that at some point later in the production, they had decided to start mastering the episodes in 16:9, but the very first episode was mastered in 16:9, so it’s really just a mash-up of aspect ratios.
- Far more disturbing is that there are whole episodes missing from the series! Tygerfyr reported several are missing in each season. I’ve also seen that Heroes suffers from this same affliction (strange, as Khidr pointed out, since Netflix actually airs the episodes the day after they are broadcast on NBC).
I am positing this question to the Internet: anybody have a clue why this is the case? The seeming randomness of the omissions is really frustrating, since it doesn’t suggest any sort of pattern or agenda on the part of Netflix or the studios.
Hopefully this is just growing pains for a relatively new and largely brilliant service.
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