Netflix shutting down DVD rentals in September 2023

[Jan]

End of an era — Netflix shutting down DVD rental service

Video streaming giant Netflix is shutting down the service that put it on the map — DVD deliveries — after 25 years.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos explained the business had continued to shrink, making it increasingly difficult to justify offering the service.

 

[dualmeister]

What?
The service has still been going all this time

 

[saor]

 

[dualmeister]

That would never have worked in SA.
April 2023
"Honey, the post office just delivered Beetlejuice!"

 

[DapperDanMan]

For a moment I thought someone had doctored the year in the thread title.

 

[Moosedrool]

Netflix had DVD rentals?

Edit: Flip I didn't even know they existed since 1997.

 

[epah]

HuH?????????

 

[dualmeister]

 

[newby_investor]

I remember hearing about this from an American friend of mine in like 2006. I thought it was a great idea back then.

How times have changed.

 

[rvZA]

What a shock... now what now?

 

[backstreetboy]

What a shock... now what now?

Go back to your bunker.

 

[dualmeister]

What a shock... now what now?

Pull out your Atari game console.

 

[rvZA]

Pull out your Atari game console.

Whats dat? Still using my Commodore 64.....

 

[Moosedrool]

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Oh yeah the 90's web designs.

I don't miss these eye sores at all.

 

[Snyper564]

For a moment I thought someone had doctored the year in the thread title.

or necrod a 15 year old thread

 

[porchrat]

Wow I can't believe Netflix has been running the DVD rental business all this time.

I would have thought this would have gone the way of the dinosaur a decade ago.

 

[dualmeister]

Oh yeah the 90's web designs.

I don't miss these eye sores at all.

 

[Jan van Riebeeckstad]

Take me back to 2010, underage trying to rent xrated DVDs and having enough electricity to watch them.

 

[frost717]

Oh no!

Anyway.

 

[Temujin]