Netflix is shutting down its DVD rental service after 25 years, giving customers a chance to receive up to ten extra discs before it ends. Customers can opt in to receive these random extras from ...

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is getting out of the disc-mailing business after 25 years, an activity that revolutionized movie rentals for a generation of Americans. The news came just a half-hour before the ...

Netflix is giving subscribers one final chance to rent discs by mail before shutting down the service for good. Earlier this week, the last customers of DVD.com — where Netflix has kept the rental ...

Edit: On Aug. 31, 2023, Netflix confirmed the unspoken implications of their previous email: Users are free to keep any of the discs that they get sent during Netflix DVD’s so-called “finale.” As the ...

Netflix has one final surprise for customers of its 25-year-old DVD-by-mail business (yes, it still exists!) ahead of its September 29th shutdown. They get to keep their last shipment of DVDs without ...

After announcing that it would support Nintendo’s Wii this past January, Netflix has finally started shipping out instant streaming discs to lucky Wii owners. E-mail alerts regarding the discs went ...

The premium channel tells the streaming and DVD-by-mail company — which has increasingly been viewed as a competitor — that it will no longer supply them discounted product. By Paul Bond Netflix, ...

Streaming dominates Netflix's universe, but don't think its disc-based service is dead yet -- in fact, it just marked a big milestone. The other part of Netflix's business just shipped its 5 billionth ...

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