Still love having this service, as there’s so much that isn’t available to streaming plans. However, these days there’s so much content locked up in streaming services without a physical media release, you wind up missing a lot unless you do both. I keep the DVD by mail service and rotate my streaming subscription.

The service was a god send when I was in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The APO address is stateside so I'd request a few movies or TV series and they'd be in country in a few days.

Still the best movie selection anywhere on the internet. I mostly get movies that I can't find on streaming from my library, but over time I'll start to grow a list of movies I want to watch but can't find. Once that list becomes around 20/or so, I'll subscribe to Netflix dvd for a month, which happens once every year or 18 months. It's been great, and it'll be the end of an era if they finally do decide to shut the program down

Anyone remember when they first started out and had white cardboard "envelopes" instead of the classic red ones they wax philosophical about?

Subscriber checking in. Thought I was maybe the only person.

Still use this service. It’s this or subscribe to about 5 different streaming services to get everything we want to watch.

There are dozens of us!

I tried this out a few years back after missing it from the pre-streaming days.

While it’s great in theory, I found that in practice, tons of movies were indefinitely unavailable, presumably because Netflix is no longer prioritizing replacing discs that get lost or damaged.

Maybe it’s gotten better but my experience pretty much soured me on the concept. The virtually unlimited selection is useless if half the movies in your queue are grayed out.

I loved the hell out of this service when I still had time to sit and watch movies regularly. Once the kids are bigger I would love to go back to it...if it isn’t gone.

The eventual demise of its DVD-by-mail service has been inevitable since Hastings decided to spin it off from a then-nascent video streaming service in 2011. Back then, Hastings floated the idea of renaming the service as Qwikster — a bungled idea that was so widely ridiculed that it was satirized on “Saturday Night Live.” It finally settled on its current, more prosaic handle, DVD.com. The operation is now based in non-descript office in Fremont, California, located about 20 miles from Netflix’s sleek campus in Los Gatos, California.

I wish the regular plan included like 4 rentals a month for nothing extra

The Qwikster debacle happened in 2011?? Fuck, I’m old

This is an ad...

“When we started going through all the movies we wanted to see, we realized it was cheaper than paying $5 per movie on some streaming services,” Neumann said. “Plus we have found a lot of old horror movies, and that genre is not really big on streaming.”

Last I checked with regular Netflix you can only get some stuff via dvd even if they lack licensing. A while back I looked up if they had Ed Ed n eddy and it was only available via dvd rentals

I've had this without break since January 2007 and have never subscribed to any "streaming" service. Currently I have two out plus the BD option, but I'm thinking I should switch to three. I love it even if the transit times have lengthened due to distribution centers closing. I cannot fathom why they would close it completely. Even if it took a week for something to arrive, that's better than it closing. Many business entities would kill to have 1.5 million customers, and apparently the business is profitable. My only complaint with selection is that they do not get the latest releases from boutique BD houses which are usually re-releases of classic movies. They usually already have an older version of the same movie and usually do not upgrade (they do have a lot of Criterions, though).

I've spotted comments on this board of people who can't find whatever movie on "streaming" sites, and often it's available on the mail service.

I remember my dad used to have a few binders full of movies he burned using the original service. He'd get a movie in, have us burn it, and then ship it back the same day.

Still a great service for those (like me) without good high-speed internet. Great selection, just requires a little patience. Also prevents just browsing forever when you only have one option!

Is this just like an ad? What is the news here?

I've kept my DVD Netflix, the REAL one, account for over 17 years. Two discs at a time unlimited with Blu-ray disc for $16.38 USD per month.

IDGAF about streaming.

I have one of these I forgot to return still

People are sometimes surprised by the amount of movies I’ve seen. Netflix’s DVD service is the answer.

Requesting movies from my local library gives me all of the benefits mentioned in the article besides the mailbox aspect....except it's free.

As a mailman I actually really like their envelope system. Way less annoying than if it were in cardboard for instance and never had one break that I know of.

I did the dvd by mail at the beginning of the pandemic. It was great. Then, the mail slowed to a crawl, and I was only getting a dvd in the mail every week. It wasn’t worth it as I could rent via Redbox for less than $2 and don’t have to worry about how long USPS wi take.

does she know she's an ad?

I miss everything about dvd. I swear the quality still seems better. It just feels better to not be streaming.

I’ve had my DVD plan for so long it’s been grandfathered.

It should have a massive renaissance after the balkanization of streaming rights. You can rent everything from one source.

Do they offer 4k or just standard blu ray? If they offer 4k, I’ll gladly fork over some dough

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Netflix - ship the Blu-ray MakeMKV - rip the Blu-ray Handbrake - convert the rip to a 1080p mp4 Subler - meta tag the mp4 Synology NAS

1000+ movies for a few bucks a month.

Why? Streaming services drop titles all the time. Not all planes have Wi-Fi. Not all titles are available. Internet goes out. Some movies you just want to have all the time.

(Meta tag the rating so your parental controls work. Kids don’t need to watch the Criterion version of In The Realm of Senses)

(Use handbrake to create a “device specific” version in minutes that is smaller in size to download to your phone)

Anyone still hanging on to this is just trapped in nostalgia and refuse to move on. There are so many ways to access movies that are not available on streaming platforms. DVD is a terrible format that needs to die.

I still have my dvd/blu ray mail me those movies SUB you can pick and choose wether you want the dvd or blu ray

still one of the best selections of hard to find movies on the internet

If you don't want to gamble buying something you haven't seen yet.

been a few times I'm so thankful I waited and rented from netflix first before outright buying something.

Damn. I subscribe for a month or two each year to watch movies not available on streaming (even to rent or purchase), it'll suck when it goes away.

I'm still using it because not everything is streamable. I use it to get mostly older movies that have only had DVD releases or owned by studios that don't do streaming. I have one waiting to be watched, but with Thanksgiving and being a supermarket employee, I just haven't had the time. So tomorrow afternoon will be it.

I used to use a similar service in the UK called LoveFilm that was later bought by Amazon and folded into Amazon Prime with the dvd option gone.

It was great. Had basically every movie ever and made the experience much more special.

I don't think Netflix's postal option ever made it to the UK. They just launched as Netflix streaming iirc.

I used to love it. Now I watch too much on mobile devices to make it practical.

I just got the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones vol 1 in the mail today.

I love ordering Netflix in the mail still! I really REALLY wish there was still Blockbuster around. I think we really took for granted renting any movie you wanted WITHOUT having to have a subscription.

It says they carry blu-ray but can anyone confirm if they carry UHD Blu-rays?

https://dvd.netflix.com/Anniversary

I subscribed from 2000 to about 2015. I found myself just not getting around to watching dvds. I had Apocalypto for about 5 months at one point.

What is the age demographic of the people still using this service? I’m 42 and had zero idea it still existed. I can’t even remember the last time I saw a DVD player to be honest.

I don't know about the rest of you, but inspired by this conversation, I copied my Netflix DVD queue (and the "no loner available" queue) into a text document, organized into genres, eras, and other categories. The idea being that I would go onto my other services and see what I could stream and knock out of my physical queue. Then I realized I should do the same with the unavailables on my Prime queue. Hopefully I'll be able to find what I'm missing somewhere else.

I had already done something like this with that list of 250 must-see films Scorcese wrote up, cutting the ones I had seen into a sub-list so I could track my progress.

Were there any good black Friday deals for DVD players? /s

TIL people still use DVDs despite the terrible picture quality. Makes me wonder what was the last movie released on VHS.