How Long Will Your Blu-Ray Collection Last?
Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their…
Yamaha’s Taking Me Back to 2001 With Its New Five-Disc CD Player
Image: Yamaha It seems the universe is always trying to push us back in time. We just saw JBL releasing a turntable like it’s 1994. Yamaha is returning to the…
Yamaha Is Taking Me Back to 2001 With Its New Five-Disc CD Player
Image: Yamaha It seems the universe is always trying to push us back in time. We just saw JBL releasing a turntable like it’s 1994. Yamaha is returning to the…
Best Buy Plans to Rid Itself of All DVDs
Mark another notch in the slow demise of physical media. On Friday, massive electronics store chain Best Buy confirmed that it will stop selling all DVDs and Blu-Rays starting in…
This Independent Video Store Is Trying to Recreate Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail Service But for Cinephiles
Netflix may be done sending people DVDs through the mail, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be satisfied with streaming all our movies. This week, one…
This Independent Video Store Is Trying to Recreate Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail Service
Netflix may be done sending people DVDs through the mail, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be satisfied with streaming all our movies. This week, one…
Don’t bother sending back those final Netflix DVD rentals
Netflix / Netflix If for some reason you’re still renting DVDs from Netflix and plan to keep doing so until that end of the service goes the way of the…
Netflix DVD Is Letting Subscribers Keep Their Final Shipment of DVDs
Netflix’s DVD subscription platform will allow subscribers to keep their final delivery of DVDs as the company prepares to close its 25-year-old service, the company announced on Monday. In April,…
RIP Red Envelope: After 25 Years, Netflix is Killing Its DVD Rentals
Photo: karen roach (Shutterstock) After some 25 years, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service. The company announced the move in a tweet Tuesday, explaining that its final discs…
Netflix will ship its final DVDs this fall
Netflix announced today in its first-quarter earnings letter — and in a note to, well, everyone — that it will stop shipping DVDs on September 29, 2023. That’s a big…