www.pbs.org
You said it best yourself.. Netflix shipping DVDs by mail was a huge deal, mostly in the early 2000s. My last 5 laptop computers haven't had CD/DVD players and I haven't missed them - And I've never been at a loss for video content or to find and watch certain movies at any point since. The video rental stores you mention have been overwhelmingly defunct for well more than a decade. Just like with 8 track, audio cassettes and VHS tapes, time and technology have moved on.
The problem is that very few people have DVD players in active use anymore. I bought one that came in a "home entertainment" center about a dozen years ago and I've probably used it 3 times since then and haven't used it for more than 6 or 7 years. I'm guessing there are very few movie titles that Netflix once had on DVD that cannot be found there or elsewhere in digital or streaming format.
One of the articles about the demise of Netflix DVDs talks to movie buffs who still get DVDs from Netflix because they have a number of movies on DVD that are not available digitally or via streaming.
Perhaps so, but looking at it purely from a business standpoint, does it make good sense for a company the size of Netflix to maintain an old and antiquated distribution model of a bygone media format, just to satisfy a few handfuls of diehard movie buffs? This may be best managed by a smaller company with interest in continuing DVD distribution approaching Neflix and offering to buy out their DVD inventory - or at least the more "rare" titles- But again, that would only really be an option if it could become a viable business venture. Obviously for Netflix, it no longer is.
Wouldn’t you rather have the DVD box sets airmailed to your house via balloon? 😀
That would be nice. Would fit Redbox's business and maybe stick a few of those DVDs into the machines.
Redbox Owner Interested in Buying Netflix’s DVD Business
Could Netflix’s red DVD envelopes and Redbox’s bright red DVD kiosks someday be part of the same company? Bill Rouhana, the CEO of Redbox owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, sure hopes so. ...news.yahoo.com
Here we go with Redbox and in talks to buy the soon to be former division of Netflix.
www.thewrap.com
True but at the same time there are allegedly reviews for DVD players in 2023. Note in some parts of the country if you go to a big box store the DVD Movies section no longer exist and got replaced by the shelves that sell streaming devices like Roku, FireTV, Apple TV, AndroidTV, sound bar speakers, and TV'S that have FireOS or RokuOS preinstalled like the TCL's TV do.
www.tcl.com
DVDs played on an HDMI connected Blu-ray player actually look quite good. A sharp eye can tell its not really HD, but the upscaling on Blu-ray makes the video far better than you might expect on widescreen formatted DVDs.
