We feel so privileged to have been able to share movie nights with our DVD members for so long, so proud of what our employees achieved and excited to continue pleasing entertainment fans for many more decades to come. DVDs also led to our first foray into original programming - with Red Envelope Entertainment titles including “Sherrybaby” and “Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion.” From the beginning, our members loved the choice and control that direct-to-consumer entertainment offered: the wide variety of the titles and the ability to binge watch entire series. Those iconic red envelopes changed the way people watched shows and movies at home - and they paved the way for the shift to streaming. So we want to go out on a high, and will be shipping our final discs on September 29, 2023. Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as the business continues to shrink that’s going to become increasingly difficult. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ full announcement about the end of the company’s DVD service:Īfter an incredible 25 year run, we’ve decided to wind down DVD.com later this year. Sarandos’ announcement came with the below graphic listing a few stats about that service over the past quarter-century: On the other hand, a little bit of the fun in renting a movie is going away, just as it did with the demise of Blockbuster and local video stores.īut it’s been an interesting 25-year run for Netflix’s DVD service. Nor will they have to deal with the potential for misplacing their discs - or just altogether forgetting to mail them back to Netflix in those envelopes - for days or weeks. On the plus side, subscribers will no longer have to worry about waiting in a queue to get the movie they want or checking the mailbox each day to see if that familiar red envelope containing it has arrived. Now, however, that is apparently no longer tenable for the streamer, with Sarandos stating in his announcement (which you can read in its entirely at the bottom of the post) that the DVD part of the business has only continued to shrink. (© Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection)īut Netflix clearly did not forget, continuing to provide those who still wished to rent physical copies of discs containing movies and shows to put in their DVD or Blu-ray players for enjoyment the old-fashioned way (in some respects, the late-’90s/early 2000s can be considered “old-fashioned” at this point) the chance to do so. The DVD of 1988’s Beetlejuice was the first one Netflix shipped, in March 1998.
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