I wonder if anyone has managed to break this record since

The most I've managed is 4 times in one year due to husband declaring it's "too much". So we settled back into a routine of twice (one in summer, one at Christmas).

Moral of the story, getting married isn't worth it.

He's holding you back from your true potential
- Yeah but he's also a great cook so you win some you lose some.
We only do once a year. I could do more often, but it would become less special.
I want it to still feel epic each time.
- Are we still talking about LOTR?
- I respect your restraint
This is be best marriage PSA I've ever seen. I've got a new box to check in the pre marriage checklist now for sure.

Why would anyone watch it that many times on Netflix, they don't even have the extended version!!

They probably put it on to fall asleep to.
- Almost definitely. They're putting it on 6 days a week, and the familiarity of the music and voices would lend itself to be relaxing.
  My only question is are they doing this for themselves, or is it a child that they're lulling to sleep?
- Considering they are getting through the whole trilogy I'm guessing it's probably more background noise during work or something.

We had an Xbox hooked up to a wall mounted TV in our company break room. I used to show up first in the morning and play movies and streams on it for people to breeze by and see throughout the day. I could easily see someone doing this in a game store or gaming cafe.

This is probably the real explanation. I've been in several local small businesses where they're constantly streaming the same TV shows/movies every time I go in there.
- Yeah LOTR is great because you’d only need to change the movie twice in a full 8 hour shift (for Netflix standard editions)
My wife puts Harry Potter movies on for background noise. We probably play some of them 100 times per year if not more. We only watch maybe 2% of the time though.
- The hero of those movies is a slaveowner
ive put it on for background in the house.

"somebody" is probably a break room somewhere and they just leave it on repeat.

I'm left to wonder if it's a business that leaves it in in the background or a part of a daily playlist? 300 times seems like a bit much...

Like could you even fit that many viewings back to back in a year?? (I kid...)
Maybe someone's pet likes it so they leave it playing while they're at work.

I mean, they should just have a digital download of that movie by that point instead of streaming the same stuff over and over...

What a novel concept!

Or it was their favourite movie to fall asleep to...

But this is for the TRILOGY maybe they just keep going every night, wouldn't be the oddest thing.
I used to be a Futurama sleeper, back in the day, before I even know what a Thing it was

They leave it on when they go to bed.

I know many people like this, these movies becam comfort movies to many 20 years ago.

Netflix is concerned about [people]

That's a laugh.

Hey, my dogs need something to watch while I'm at work. Why not LotR?

~3300h total if we don't include the credits

I wonder if people would do that if they realised the true global cost of electricity production...

Probably. We need something to get through the day to day of being a person even before we get into all the horrible things all around the world. If we avoided everything we do that has unacceptable ramifications we'd pretty much have to crawl into a cave and die.
Use the modern tools you have access to to improve lives, not try and make others feel guilty for not having done enough.
- I wish I had the free time to crawl into a cave and die
- But some things use way less power than others... TVs use a lot of electricity compared to listening to a podcast for example
A modern 55" LCD TV uses about as much electricity as an old incandescent porch flood light, the kind that would be left on pretty much all night, ~75 watts. So, in the grand scheme of things, it's not much.
Well, if I'm paying the electric bill, then yeah, I would do what I damn well please.
- There's more cost to our energy production than a bill that comes at the end of the month.

I'm pretty sure my brother reached numbers like this for Ghostbusters (TV edit) when he was a little kid.