When Recommendations Go Wrong


I just logged onto Netflix to add some shows to my kid's queue. The first recommendation was "The Princess Diaries (Fullscreen)." I'm always curious why Netflix (or Amazon, etc.) is recommending something. The reason left me shaking my head: "Because you enjoyed: The Princess Diaries (Widescreen)." Huh? I enjoyed seeing the whole movie so much--I'd love to see it with the sides cut off!

Netflix apparently views the fullscrren and widescreen versions as two different titles instead of a single title with different options. Weird.


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Last modified: Thu Oct 10 12:47:19 2019.