With DVDs now becoming a thing of the past, Netflix is shuttering its DVD library. However, there's good news for those who prefer physical media over streaming: Netflix is giving away free DVDs (for ...

As The Buggles once said, “Streaming killed the DVD star, streaming killed the DVD star, in my mind and in my car. We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far, pictures came and broke your heart. Put the ...

Every collector has to say good-bye to their physical media at some point. Netflix’s DVD business started in 1997, buried Blockbuster, and put the company on the map, but after a quarter-century of ...

Well, it finally happened: After 25 years and having shipped a reported 5 billion discs in that quarter of a century, Netflix is finally (officially) dismantling its physical-media-by-mail business.

Let’s all join together in a moment of silence for Netflix’s DVD rental service—1998-2023. The red envelope killed Blockbuster, and Netflix is now killing the red envelope. Ashes to ashes, dust to ...

When subscribers receive their last red envelopes from DVD.com — the rental-by-mail arm of Netflix dedicated to the physical discs that made the company a household name — they can add those movies to ...

After a quarter of a century of mailing out DVD rentals to customers across the U.S., Netflix recently announced that it will be ending the service later this month. While most Netflix customers are ...

Oswaldo Quinones has looked forward to receiving red envelopes in his mailbox for almost two decades. He subscribed to Netflix’s DVD service back in 2004, around the same time Blockbuster reached its ...