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 ...

The Netflix DVD library struck what was perhaps the ideal balance here—truly vast and eclectic, but also with a baseline quality level of films that had to at least qualify on the front of ...

History of Netflix discs-by-mail . Although he hasn't been involved in Netflix's day-to-day operations for 20 years, Randolph came up with the idea for a DVD-by-service in 1997 with his friend and ...

Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings said in 2019 that he could see the DVD segment lasting another five years, which would mean through 2024. Though he also added that he's in no hurry to get rid of it.

It’s the end of an era for Netflix.. Twenty-five years after the company was founded, Netflix says it will wind down its legacy DVD-by-mail business. Yes, the red envelopes will soon be no more.

Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service bows out as its red-and-white envelopes make their final trip The fewer than 1 million recipients who still subscribe to the DVD service will be able to keep the ...

Netflix’s trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service is seen as a relic in the age of video streaming. Its loyal, although shrinking, audience fears the end. Netflix DVDs still have fans.

Netflix’s DVD.com will ship its final discs on September 29, 2023. If for some reason customers don’t want to keep their final discs, Netflix will accept returns through October 27, 2023.

Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later. Sending movies through the mail, in recognizable red-and-white envelopes, helped the company become a behemoth in Hollywood.

Netflix first launched video-streaming in 2007, and originally that was available as part of its DVD-by-mail subscription plans. In 2011, Netflix decided to split streaming off from the newly ...

Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too) The company is shuttering its rental-by-mail service in September, more than 25 years after it launched. Share full article. 177 ...

Since this story was first published, Netflix has said its DVD-by-mail customers will not be required to return the 10 DVDs it offered to send them before the service ends in September. This story ...