Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ full announcement about the end of the company’s DVD service:Īfter an incredible 25 year run, we’ve decided to wind down DVD.com later this year. Sarandos’ announcement came with the below graphic listing a few stats about that service over the past quarter-century:
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On the other hand, a little bit of the fun in renting a movie is going away, just as it did with the demise of Blockbuster and local video stores.īut it’s been an interesting 25-year run for Netflix’s DVD service. Nor will they have to deal with the potential for misplacing their discs - or just altogether forgetting to mail them back to Netflix in those envelopes - for days or weeks. On the plus side, subscribers will no longer have to worry about waiting in a queue to get the movie they want or checking the mailbox each day to see if that familiar red envelope containing it has arrived. Now, however, that is apparently no longer tenable for the streamer, with Sarandos stating in his announcement (which you can read in its entirely at the bottom of the post) that the DVD part of the business has only continued to shrink. (© Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection)īut Netflix clearly did not forget, continuing to provide those who still wished to rent physical copies of discs containing movies and shows to put in their DVD or Blu-ray players for enjoyment the old-fashioned way (in some respects, the late-’90s/early 2000s can be considered “old-fashioned” at this point) the chance to do so. The DVD of 1988’s Beetlejuice was the first one Netflix shipped, in March 1998.
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