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COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST FRIDAY... ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING

* WHAT...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, up to 1.6 ft of
inundation above ground level is possible in low-lying areas
near shorelines and tidal waterways. For the Beach Hazards
Statement, an increased risk for sneaker waves and strong rip
currents with breaking waves of 12 to 16 ft expected.

* WHERE...Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast.

* WHEN...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, until 4 PM PST Friday.
For the Beach Hazards Statement, until Monday evening.

* IMPACTS...High tides will result in flooding of low-lying
infrastructure, isolated road closures, and coastal erosion.
Rising tides will bring water and waves farther up the beach
than normal, restricting escape from beaches and coastal
areas. Waves can sweep across the shoreline without warning,
pulling people into the sea from beaches, jetties, and rocks.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...At the San Francisco tide gauge, high tide
is expected to be: 1.6 ft above normal (7.4 ft MLLW) at 10:06 AM
Sunday 11/8, 1.5 ft above normal (7.3 ft MLLW) at 10:35 AM
Monday 11/9, 1.5 ft above normal (7.3 ft MLLW) at 11:04 AM
Tuesday 11/10, 1.4 ft above normal (7.2 ft MLLW) at 11:35 AM
Wednesday 11/11, 1.3 ft above normal (7.1 ft MLLW) at 12:10 PM
Thursday 11/12, 1.1 ft above normal (6.9 ft MLLW) at 12:49 PM
Friday 11/13. These predictions include up to 1.4 ft of surge
that will enhance the astronomical tide and flooding threat.
High tide varies up to 90 minutes earlier or later along the
Pacific Coast and through the San Francisco Bay, respectively.Less

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My mother started going to movies around 1925 with her father and sisters in Seattle then

Since she was 5 or 6 years old they would walk from Alkai point then in the 1920s where they lived to the theaters usually I think on a Friday or Saturday night. My mother's mother was always a more Bible Reading kind of person and so prayed a lot and wasn't interested that much in movies like my mother's father and her and her sisters.

So, by the time I came along in 1948 I think maybe the first movie I can actually remember which was terrifying for a 4 year old because Bambi's mother dies was Disney's Bambi which actually changed the laws all over the U.S. regarding hunting Deer by the way. So, it became illegal to shoot does that were deer ever after that and you could ONLY hunt bucks (which makes sense because if you shot all the does and all the bucks then deer would be extinct now all over the U.S.

So, because of that we have a healthy deer population all over the U.S. because of that where some males survive to breed with the Does.

For example, when you drive through the Forest we live in often you have to watch for especially does and fawns year around and yearlings. So, you ALWAYS have to be on the lookout for them and because they are not allowed to be hunted in the forest where we live there are always a lot of them both bucks and does.

And people think deer are helpless but they are dangerous if you are not careful too in various ways.

For example, stay away from Does with Fawns because the Does hoofs are potentially fatal for a human being. I had one buck who was upset about something stamp his foot and it broke the cement in the shape of his hoof on my cement driveway. After this, I realized if a buck can break the cement in the shape of his hoof print then what would it do to a person? So, take seriously the danger you might be in from a doe with a baby or two or a buck with a full set of horns who knows how to use them.

So, when I came along at first there was no TV in our home until 1954 when I was 6 years old and then it was a 17 inch little black and white TV that I watched Superman and Cowboy movies on then and Disneyland (there were several versions of Disneyland under different names like "The wonderful world of Color) and others. I think the Disney series were always my favorite things to watch from age 6 to 10 or 12 years old.

But, it all started with my mother going to the movies at around age 5 years old with my grandfather and her two sisters in Seattle Washington.

So, then in the 1950s my mother and grandmother would watch movies from the 20s to the 40s while I was growing up and then jack Lalane had an exercise show on TV locally in Los Angeles that my mother and I would work out with too to stay in shape every morning that we could, especially during summers if I wasn't working with my Dad in his Electrical Contracting Business all over Los Angeles County from about 1960 to 1965 when I went away for my senior year to a private school in Santa Fe, New Mexico in Fall of 1965 until May of 1966 when I graduated there and then returned to Los Angeles County in California.

Netflix's path to starting STreaming Services was through DVD's by Mail

 In 1998 I believe Netflix began a subscription service where you paid a monthly fee and ordered your DVDs to rent through the mail. Then in 2007 they began a streaming service that basically began (as far as I am concerned) STreaming worldwide and helped create what it is today. Here is what started Netflix which eventually put Blockbuster DVD rentals per tape or DVD out of business by 2014. Now things have changed a lot regarding DVDs and STreaming as of now. Though my wife and I likely still have about 1000 DVD and some VHS tapes from the 1980s until now we don't usually use them in that form because we can get a better display because of our 60 wide screen Flat Screen TV by streaming them. However, I like having these DVD's of our favorite movies of all time there so we can remember the movies we liked so we can stream them if we remember them when we want to. So, for me, at least our large DVD and some VHS collection is mostly for reminding us the great movies of the past. However, if there is a power outage I can still play the Blue Ray ones at least using my generator through our big flat screen TV in the living room when the Internet is out in our area often between January and March when the big 100 mph winds can come off the ocean where we live and knock down power lines.

For example, last Christmas we didn't have power from about December 23rd until December 26th and we had 5 house guests including an 8 year old and a 1 year old which got pretty interesting too. The 8 year old will likely remember this experience the rest of his life because he had never endured and survived a power outage at all? but for sure not of this length before.

For our needs a Yamaha inverter gasoline powered Generator has worked the best the last several years except that a mechanic told me you need to start it up about once every 2 weeks because the gas jets in the carburetor system are so small they will clog otherwise. So, since we learned this we can keep it running without having to take it to a mechanic to clean the jets.

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"Online video rental" redirects here. For rental of streaming or downloaded video, see video on demand.

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DVD-by-mail is a business model in which customers order DVDs and similar discs containing films, television shows, video games, and other media to rent, which are then delivered to the customer by mail. Generally, all interaction between the renter and the rental company takes place through the company's website, using an e-commerce model. Typically, a customer chooses from a list of titles online and adds titles to a queue. As a customer's requested titles become available, the company sends them out. When the customer is finished with the disc, they mail it back to the company.

DVD-by-mail arrived in time to compete with video rental shops, but both have largely been overtaken in developed countries by video on demand (online streaming) services. As a result, formerly operating DVD-by-mail services (e.g. Redbox) are now defunct.

Background

Most companies operate on the following model:

• The customer joins the rental service, typically through an online e-commerce system and a website, and agrees to abide by a list of conditions, and provides some form of electronic payment (e.g., a credit card number).
• Once the customer has registered, they create a list of titles they wish to watch, which are ranked by the customer by priority.
• Titles from the list are mailed to the customer as they become available.
• The customer watches the films or uses the media and then sends the discs back to the rental company using the mail.

Most companies let customers keep the films for as long as they want; customers are, however, limited to a set number of discs out at any one time. Commonly, once a disc is returned, another is sent out. Some companies or plans may have a limit on the total number of movies rented in a month. Memberships are usually billed monthly, and includes postage both ways.

Variations exist; for example, some companies also offer video game rentals while others offer music. Redbox allowed users to reserve DVDs or Blu-ray discs online to retrieve and return the DVD at interactive kiosks located in various retail establishments.

Throttling

Given sufficiently fast mail delivery, customers on "unlimited" plans who return their discs quickly enough can receive enough shipments in a month that the company's cost of delivery exceeds the fixed monthly subscription fee, making this type of customer unprofitable. Even below this point, higher volume customers are less profitable than customers who receive fewer discs per month. If these customers become too numerous, there are various measures which the rental company can take.

One is the so-called "throttling" approach, which received significant publicity with regard to Netflix (which refers to the practice as a "fairness algorithm").^[1] In this case, high-volume customers may experience a greater likelihood of (slower) shipments from alternative warehouses, when the nearest shipment center does not have the requested disc. Also, if there is a high demand for a particular disc, it is more likely that an infrequent renter will get priority over the frequent renters, with the latter receiving a movie further down on their list.^[2] They are also less likely to receive replacement shipments on the same day a disc is received. Similar "fair use" caveats can be found in the terms and conditions of leading UK companies such as LOVEFiLM. In Canada, Zip.ca switched to "capped" plans (with additional shipping charges for rentals over the cap) in part to avoid implementing throttling.^{[citation needed]}

LOVEFiLM came under scrutiny from users over its claim to offer "unlimited" movie rentals. Some users reportedly found the company used long delays at the shipping stage to reduce the number of films a month a customer can rent. The company was subject to a dispute by the Advertising Standards Authority over the use of the word "unlimited" in their advertising. It was revealed that they practised throttling.^[3] The company itself claimed that this "fair usage" policy means all customers get a similar service.

On March 2, 2006, Blockbuster announced that their service does not implement throttling.^[4] "We don't prioritize our customers' movie fulfillment based on how often they use our service, and we don't limit the number of movies a subscriber receives each month," according to Senior Vice-president Shayne Evangelist. However, the terms and conditions each customer has to agree to in order to subscribe to the service states, "Blockbuster Online reserves the right to determine product allocation among members in its sole discretion. In determining product allocation, we use various factors including, but not limited to, (i) the historical rental volume for each subscriber, (ii) historical number of outstanding rentals relative to the maximum number of outstanding Blockbuster Online Rentals allowed under a subscriber's plan, and (iii) the average rental queue position of Blockbuster Online rentals that have shipped to a subscriber in the past."^[5]

Major markets

This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2019)

The following is a summary of the major DVD-by-mail markets.

Americas

United States

Netflix envelope and inner sleeve with the Coach Carter (2005) DVD inside

Netflix ended 2008 with 9.39 million customers.^[6] Around 4.2 million individuals in the U.S. still rented DVDs via mail from the company as of 2017.^[7] Netflix announced on April 18, 2023, that their DVD subscription services would be closed and the last DVDs sent via mail was on September 29, 2023.^[8] At the end of its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix had completed over 52 billion DVD deliveries.^[9]

Blockbuster claimed 1 million online customers in August 2005, 2 million by March 2006, and finished the first quarter of 2007 with 3 million.^[10] By the end of 2013, Blockbuster had withdrawn from the DVD-by-mail market.^[11] Walmart briefly entered the market as well, but withdrew in 2005 and then went into a cross-promotional agreement with Netflix.^[12] There have been a number of smaller companies, some of which target specific niches: eHit,^[13] the first such niche company, came online in 2000 targeting fans of Asian films; specifically Japan, China, and Korea, expanding to include other countries' films over time.

Canada

Estimates put the number of Canadian subscribers at 70–80,000, with Zip.ca having had around 50,000 before ceasing operations.^{[citation needed]} Other competitors include Kaku.ca and DVDlink.ca. Cinemail.ca announced it would cease operations at the end of June 2013.

Mexico

Blockbuster Online started DVD rentals in Mexico during 2007, after the chain acquired a local startup called MovieNet.^{[citation needed]}

Brazil

Blockbuster Online started DVD rentals in Brazil during 2006 and now offers Blu-ray plans as well. The 3-disc unlimited rental plan costs R$49.90/month with unlimited exchanges.^[14]

Europe

United Kingdom

Given the relatively small geographical area and high population density of the UK, online DVD rentals have some differences from the US, as a single shipping facility can serve the entire country. In-Movies.com launched the UK's first subscription service in May 2000 at £14.99 per month for a 3 disc plan and merged with Screen Select in December 2003. In April 2006, LoveFilm merged with its major rival Video Island, which had operated ScreenSelect and other brands,^[15] and in February 2008, LoveFilm acquired Amazon's DVD rental business in the UK and German markets. In return, Amazon became the largest shareholder of LoveFilm.^[16][17][18] LoveFilm ceased operating on 31 October 2017. Cinema Paradiso is now the only remaining supplier of rental DVDs in the UK.

Asia/Oceania

Australia

The most prominent Australian provider was Quickflix, which provided the service alongside online streaming of movies until it ceased operations in 2021. Other companies which operated in Australia included HomeScreen, which Quickflix acquired in 2005, and BigPond Movies, which sold their library of 50,000 titles to Quickflix in 2011.

New Zealand

There were three online DVD rental companies in New Zealand, all offering flat-rate packages. The three companies were DVD Unlimited, Fatso and Movieshack. On June 7, 2008, all three companies merged into Fatso, owned by SKY Network Television. Fatso ceased operations on 23 November 2017 due to declining membership.

Singapore

Hollywoodclicks and Videohub are the two most established online DVD rental services in Singapore. Hollywoodclicks was the first to market, followed by Video Ezy Online. Video Ezy Online rental service was shut down at the start of 2009 and was converted to a home delivery service.

India

There are several online DVD rental services in India, all running their own delivery systems and logistics. Unlike online DVD rental companies in other countries, online DVD rental services in India do not use the postal service as a means of delivery or exchange. India's first online DVD rental service Clixflix started in August 2004.^[19] Cinesprite, Seventymm and Reliance BigFlix have closed their operations.^{[citation needed]} Clixflix (the oldest) is still in operation in Mumbai.

Japan

Major online rental Blu-ray Disc and DVD companies are Tsutaya Discas, Posren, and DMM.com.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• HD DVD
• VCD
• VHS

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