April 28, 2023 • 1 min
WBZ's Jordan Rich takes a look at the end of DVD rentals offered by Netflix.
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This is now streaming with Jordan.In case you haven't heard, Netflix announced
last week that it will stop shippingDVDs in September of this year. Now,
for some of us cool streaming dudes, we didn't know they still did
it, but after a twenty fiveyear run, they've decided to wind down
the DVD production and the final oneswill be shipped on September twenty ninth.
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A little bit of history here.Netflix started as a DVD rental company.
Remember getting those red envelopes in themail? I sure do. While times
certainly are a changing, we allhave to adapt a little bit of trivia
for you. The first DVD shippedby Netflix was Beetlejuice March tenth, nineteen
ninety eight. Its most popular DVDever was The blind Side, and since
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the DVD campaign began a quarter ofa century ago, Netflix has shipped more
than five point two billion DVDs toabout forty million subscribers. All I can
say is that seeing that Vinyl hasmade a big comeback, I wouldn't get
rid of that DVD player anytime soon. And that's now streaming with Jordan WZ
Boston's News Radio
This is now streaming with Jordan.In case you haven't heard, Netflix announced
last week that it will stop shippingDVDs in September of this year. Now,
for some of us cool streaming dudes, we didn't know they still did
it, but after a twenty fiveyear run, they've decided to wind down
the DVD production and the final oneswill be shipped on September twenty ninth.
(00:20):
A little bit of history here.Netflix started as a DVD rental company.
Remember getting those red envelopes in themail? I sure do. While times
certainly are a changing, we allhave to adapt a little bit of trivia
for you. The first DVD shippedby Netflix was Beetlejuice March tenth, nineteen
ninety eight. Its most popular DVDever was The blind Side, and since
(00:41):
the DVD campaign began a quarter ofa century ago, Netflix has shipped more
than five point two billion DVDs toabout forty million subscribers. All I can
say is that seeing that Vinyl hasmade a big comeback, I wouldn't get
rid of that DVD player anytime soon. And that's now streaming with Jordan WZ
Boston's News Radio
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