{"id":5351,"date":"2009-01-26T20:17:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/what-recession\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:17:38","slug":"what-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/what-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"What recession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo here&#8217;s your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastingcable.com\/article\/162781-Home_Entertainment_Rules_As_Netflix_Records_Stellar_Quarter.php?rssid=20102\">recession-proof business,<\/a> ladies and gentlemen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Netflix, the company which mails out DVD rentals and also offers streamed programming via the internet, saw a 45% jump in profits and 26% rise in consumers to 9.4 million in the fourth quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was the quarter in which Netflix released Watch Instantly on non-PC platforms. It&#8217;s so ubiquitous now I have it on three platforms: a home theater PC, TivoHD, and a Samsung BD-P2500 Blu-Ray player. It looks best on the Samsung, thanks to its <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.samsung.com\/us\/bluraysupport\/art_new_hqv.html\">HQV video enhancement chip<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s your recession-proof business, ladies and gentlemen: Netflix, the company which mails out DVD rentals and also offers streamed programming via the internet, saw a 45% jump in profits and 26% rise in consumers to 9.4 million in the fourth quarter. This was the quarter in which Netflix released Watch Instantly on non-PC platforms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/what-recession\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What recession?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}