Well, who got the last DVD? Do they have to return it? What movie was it?
They said their last shipment is a gift to the subscribers. They even had a signup period where they’d give you 10 of them, sadly I missed that email. Thanks spam!
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#12I maintained my disc sub to the bitter end. Although I rarely used it, it was frequently the only way to view many older or more obscure films without an outright full-retail-price purchase, and even then, good luck on availability. I lament its passing and worry very much that it's function as a pseudo-film library for the average person is no longer available anywhere.
I hear the high seas calling...
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#13it's incredible that a million user business wasn't deemed worthy of maintenance. mega corp churn is incredible.
Lots more logistics involved with physical compared to streaming. Time is zero sum, you they could of had a small profit off the 1 million users but they probably found the focusing on other lines of business would be more profitable or less of a hassle.
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#14I tried to make a graph of the total number of discs shipped from the timeline, eventually I got lazy and just did a search to see if someone else already had that graph. Instead, I found this graph that breaks down the revenues by DVDs versus streaming:
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#15This is pretty sad, not because of nostalgia, but because the Netflix DVD catalog was oftentimes the only way to watch some movies. I'm not even talking about super obscure movies - I'm talking about movies that weren't necessarily blockbusters, but were moderately successful and had big-name actors. Many of those movies aren't available on any streaming platform, but also the DVDs are hard to buy, so the Netflix DVD…
Soon many great films will be lost forever. Many already are.
Just look at the various films that have been lost to fire over time. Of course with the old ones piracy wasn’t really an option. Digitization has its own issues as well.
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#16it's incredible that a million user business wasn't deemed worthy of maintenance. mega corp churn is incredible.
It's speculated that the remaining business was slipping out of profitability without an overhaul. Users were dropping, movie selection is expensive to maintain, and distribution staff/centers ate the remaining revenue.
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#17it's incredible that a million user business wasn't deemed worthy of maintenance. mega corp churn is incredible.
Netflix DVDs could be ripped and shared via P2P with ease.
Netflix DRM playback is harder to deal with.
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#18:-( I've been a subscriber nearly from the start and I've watched hundreds of movies via this service. It is a tragedy simply because so much content is not available any other way or a myriad of disparate streaming services that I am not going to subscribe to. There was a good article about this topic in the WSJ from a few months ago [0]. As the article states:
"This month the Washington Post’s Ty Burr reminds us of some movies we can’t stream: “Cocoon” (1985), directed by Ron Howard, “Short Cuts” (1993) by Robert Altman, “New York, New York” (1977) by Martin Scorsese, “Henry & June” (1990) by Philip Kaufman and “Silkwood” (1983) by Mike Nichols."
The only silver lining is I am probably going to start exploring the Kanopy catalog more which may be available via your local public library.
[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/dvds-demise-leaves-many-films-g...
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#19The real question is: What was the last DVD shipped?
I assume it was actually the last batch shipped.
I suppose they could have figured out the last fulfilled order though.
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#20It’s crazy that we saw the birth and demise of a technology in our lifetime.