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    Christopher> i'm not suer how BB will fare against NF.  I like NF
    Christopher> because the disti is in Duluth and they have an
    Christopher> amazing selection.  I like to watch stuff other than
    Christopher> the latest blockbuster.

    Christopher> One of my last rentals was the PBS video of Frontier
    Christopher> House.  Not sure if BB will have that one.

An interesting article on this topic in Wired; basically services like
Netflix have gobs of requests for things outside the "mainstream" hits
(I think the article says 99% in some cases):

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html";>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html</a>

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