Monday, February 26, 2007

The Case for Netflix / Mail Order [& Downloads]

Triple Pundit: AskPablo: Is Netflix saving the world?: "The lesson in all of this is that mail order is more efficient than driving your personal vehicle (unless it's a bike).... A study performed for the record label EMI by the Digital Europe Project compared the relative ecological impact of purchasing a CD at a store (which requires driving there), ordering it on-line (from Amazon for example), or downloading the music (iTunes) and came to a similar conclusion as this Netflix case. An even more efficient option is on-demand movies on cable, or movie downloading (which will gain popularity as bandwidth increases)."

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