The real question is: What was the last DVD shipped?
I was hoping to learn this too.
We're left to speculate.
...But I hope it was Weird Al's first film, "UHF".
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#25Is anyone else unreasonably upset that they didn't reveal which the last shipped disc actually was?
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#26it'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.
I bet it had a lot to do with those sticking around actually being the ones who use the service the most.
Similar to how gyms count on a decent chunk of members coming once a month or even less, but those members basically subsidize the $10/m price for everyone else.
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#27It’s crazy that we saw the birth and demise of a technology in our lifetime.
Is it? I mean, I remember when VCR recorders first came out. Though they still exist, I don’t know anyone that owns one and I can’t go to the local store and buy one. What about zip drives? Floppy disks? 8 track players in the car?
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#28I 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...
Genuinely curious whether there were films you found on the DVD service that were inaccessible via your local library loan system (if you are in the US that is, did Netflix ever do the DVD service outside the US though?)
Good library systems have a good percentage of DVD released films readily available for free.
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#29Back in the day, when being a cable cutter was a badge of a pioneer - I have to admit that in all the excitement I never realized that switching to streaming digital content means never having access* to “your collection” - available catalog always changes. Doesn’t matter how old the content is - someone is always busy thinking of a ways to monetize it, which usually translates to it not being available when you want to watch it.
* unless one blackbeards it
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#30I 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...
Discoverability will also be an issue, I really liked getting into the more obscure parts of the dvd library and found many many titles that I would have otherwise never seen or heard of.