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After 25 years, Netflix will be shutting down its DVD rental service this September
(dvd.netflix.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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What're they gonna do with all those dvds?
People have been asking this since they announced the end of DVDs and Netflix is yet to address it so it feels like they're probably gonna go to waste, fingers crossed that Netflix can get a bigger write off by donating them than burning them though lol
They will possibly be sold off. In the UK we had postal rental service called LoveFilm, and when it eventually shut down many of the DVDs started appearing in second hand stores. For a whole there were bulk boxes of 100 random discs that were being sold very cheaply.
I don't find it very likely. All those current Netflix DVD users are also potential customers for the digital subscription. Suddenly all those DVDs floating around for pennies would reduce that number of potential customers, which I believe Netflix doesn't want.
When Blockbuster shut down, they never made any attempt to collect DVDs that customers had out. That's how I scored my sweet, sweet copy of the classic Seth Green movie Without a Paddle.
Is that culture club?
If this is a quote from the movie, I have to apologize because I'm honestly not sure if I've seen it.
You rented it, then haven't gotten around to watching it in the 20+years you've had it? XD amazing blockbuster couldn't stay in business with your late fees alone
In my defense, who even has a DVD player these days?
True that. I'd have to dig out the usb2.0 dvd player that I bought 10 years ago when I realized I didn't have a dvd player. Bought it, used it once, haven't seen it since.
Lmao that just reminded me that I have one of those in a box sitting a few feet away from me, covered in dust. I think I bought it when I built my lastest PC 5 years ago since I didn't add a built in drive. I think I've used it once since then.
I actually have one, but it's been stuffed away in the back of a closet for a few years. I have a portable USB optical drive I use to rip them to mp4 and keep in a library on network storage, but it's not set up to actually play them.
Anyway the library is a hot tip, best place to find DVDs and sometimes ones you can't find anywhere else. If you have an optical drive you can rip them and keep a copy for posterity.
It's a fun romp. Not the worst background noise. Surprisingly good cast, it almost becomes a touching story before zipping straight back to its roots of stoner humor. 6/10 would recommend it over quite a bit of other movies.
Oh, the timeless classic also featuring Dax Shepard and Matthew Lillard? I'd call that a score, my friend.
Sounds right. I'm not sure if I've seen it.
Bury them in the desert
....much later
We believe these spherical discs were a totem of good luck for at least three decades until the Great Corvid the 19th disaster. Having failed to spare them, the population burned and buried them as false charms. Over here you can see collection marked Sandler. A possible trickster god.
Right next to the Atari game cartridges!
Where did all the E.T. cartridges go?
Find a site of an old blockbuster and leave it in the hole?
I thought of that too and I realized they must already have a channel to get rid of discs since they would need to dwindle down numbers after a new release is no longer in huge demand, it sounds like they also cull some old releases entirely based on the comments here.
I know GameFly sells their used games directly to consumers, but Netflix must be selling them in bulk to someone since they never do that. Unless they are getting like for rental only discs and have some sort of deal with studios where they have to return/discard them or something.
I imagine at least some will just be kept and pocketed since you can hold on to them as long as you want already.