After 25-years of sending discs of movies and TV shows to people through the mail, Netflix is discontinuing the DVD subscription business that started it all, the company announced in its Tuesday earnings report.
“Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as the DVD business continues to shrink that’s going to become increasingly hard,” the company said in its earnings release, adding it has shipped more than 5 billion discs since starting.
While most Netflix users have long since migrated to its online streaming service, the DVD option still had a small but loyal fan base of those who prefer watching physical DVDs, have spotty internet connections or were looking for some content not available on the usual streaming players.“There are titles you can’t find elsewhere, their library was just huge compared to any sort of streaming option,” says Ann Silverthorn, who first started getting DVDs in the mail in 2009.
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