{"id":19319,"date":"2023-10-01T19:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19319"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:36:06","slug":"rip-netflixs-dvd-rental-service-breathes-its-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19319","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Netflix&#8217;s DVD Rental Service Breathes Its Last"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Like the dodo, Blockbuster, and the telephone booth (almost), Netflix\u2019s DVD rental service is headed for the ash heap of history. <br \/><br \/>Two days ago, Netflix shipped out its last red-enveloped disc, ending its quarter-century run as a DVD lender. The news came as no surprise, since the company had notified its customers and the general public back in April that the end was near. Netflix had its origins as a DVD-rental company back in 1998. <br \/><br \/>On Friday September 29, the company pronounced the service dead, declaring: \u201cFor 25 years, we redefined how people watched films and series at home, and shared the excitement as they opened their mailboxes to our iconic red envelopes.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/healthycareus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/antabuse.html\">antabuse<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> It\u2019s the end of an era, but the DVD business built our foundation for the years to come \u2013 giving members unprecedented choice and control, a wide variety of titles to choose from and the freedom to watch as much as they want.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The DVD delivery service did its part in spelling the demise of the corner video store, which had been an important distribution channel since the popularization of the VCR in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<br \/><br \/>According to Neflix, the very first DVD it shipped was <em><strong>Beetlejuice<\/strong><\/em>, which was mailed out on March 10, 1988. The company claims that over the next 25 years, it shipped to some 239,000 different mailboxes. By 2003, Netflix had a cool million rental subscribers, which grew to some 20 million by 2011. According to Netflix, the service shipped five billion DVD\u2019s by 2019, representing 20 main genres and 530 subgenres.<br \/><br \/>News of the service\u2019s demise has already elicited obituaries in social media as well as conventional press outlets. In a feature for <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, Joe Reid mourned &#8220;the end of Netflix\u2019s rental service as the end of a significant avenue of access to movies, one that cannot possibly be replaced by what we have now.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Just days before that September 29 deadline,\u201d continued Reid, \u201cI mailed back my final Netflix DVD, a semi-obscure documentary from 2006 called <em><strong>Small Town Gay Bar<\/strong><\/em>. A mid-aughts queer indie, it would never have been available at my local brick-and-mortar video store, which makes it exactly the kind of thing that drew me to Netflix in the first place.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/healthycareus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/zofran.html\">zofran<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> \u2026 Looking back at that Netflix rental history of mine, it is remarkable how many titles I was able to rent on DVD that are currently unavailable to stream or rent or watch digitally in the US.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/healthycareus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/minocin.html\">minocin<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br>\u201d<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the dodo, Blockbuster, and the telephone booth (almost), Netflix\u2019s DVD rental service is headed for the ash heap of history. 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