(Pedantic) The 'flix' in Netflix refers to 'flicks', i.e. films.... that is clea...

nbevans · on Sept 25, 2018

So much this! "Flick" or "flicks" is a reference to the flickering that happens during old fashioned mechanical projection.

dsamarin · on Sept 25, 2018

Funny though since a netcast is already another word for podcast according to Wikipedia. Netpods, anyone?

lostlogin · on Sept 25, 2018

I’m voting for PodFix.

halfastack · on Sept 25, 2018

As someone else has pointed out here, though, it also stands for "flip through" ;).

wingerlang · on Sept 25, 2018

It doesn't matter. anything-flix right now pretty much means 'content on demand'.