CEO Ted Sarandos announced today that after 25 years, Netflix will be shuttering its Blu-ray and DVD rental service in the coming months. As for when the final discs will go out, people will have ...

Netflix will cease shipping DVDs in about a month, bringing to an end a service it offered years before it became the streaming giant it is today.. The move to phase out its 25-year-old DVD rental ...

Netflix DVDs helped film fans like myself to see hundreds and hundreds of movies in the last decade. ... deeply impractical yard sale with 300 faded copies of Meet the Parents or Analyze This.

On April 9, 2023, Netflix announced that it was “sunsetting” — aka terminating — its material-world DVD rental option. Netflix's DVD-By-Mail Era Ends: A Eulogy ...

In 1997, Netflix launched as a pay-per-rental service, but it transitioned to the now-famous subscription queue system in 1999, where customers make a list of DVDs they'd like to receive, and they ...

While the DVD business kickstarted Netflix’s meteoric rise, in recent years it has been on the decline. In 2022, it had $146 million in revenue, down $40 million from the year prior.

Still, even though Netflix is shutting down, its DVDs are going to stick around for a long time. While this is definitely a great send-off for existing subscribers, it’s still sad to see Netflix ...

Netflix Inc is winding down its DVD-by-mail business, ... It was a calculated risk that the nascent DVD player, which went on sale for the first time in the U.S. in 1997, ...