Smartphone with Netflix logo is placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvicis winding down its DVD-by-mail business, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday, ending the service it started around 25 years ago.
Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph described in his autobiography how he and co-founder Reed Hastings had flirted with the idea of challenging Blockbuster Video with mail-order VHS cassettes, but it would have cost too much. They instead landed on a more cost-effective proposition: DVDs sold and rented online.
"Betting on DVDs was a risk," Randolph wrote in his book, "That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea." He added: "But it might also be our way to finally crack that category."
Wait….that was still a thing?!
I thought Netflix 'the streaming service' went bankrupt and ceased to exist, and now informed that they still renting DVDs. WTH🤡
I didn't know they still did that. Thats some 2002 shit.
They had much better choices to rent on dvd than the 90% rubbish available to stream
I thought they ended this like 10-15 years ago lmao
Noooooooo
? When was the last time someone rented one 🥴
What's a DVD?
We've known Biden is a criminal since 2015. Why tf isn't he in prison ? Because our government is corrupt af
They still make the color red?
I loved this way back when but thought it ended.
What’s a DVD and what’s a mail?
Where will I get my hd-dvd's now?
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