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How the hell was it good business for Netflix to get rid of DVDs?

posted a year ago by RustyShacklefurd (2039)
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I had a Netflix subscription for DVDs for many years. I had always assumed that all the movies Netflix had on DVD were also available for streaming. But then a few months after Netflix announced it was ending DVDs it showed me which movies in my DVD queue were available for streaming and it was a tiny selection. I had over 80 movies in my DVD queue and only 6 of them were available for streaming. Which means Netflix’s movie DVD library was over 10 times bigger than its movie streaming library.

How could it possibly be good business for Netflix to close off access to over 90% of the movies it had available? How does that not drive away tons of customers who no longer have any access to the vast majority of movies that were available before? And why aren’t all the movies they had on DVD available for streaming?

[–] CreosoteXmp37 (294) a year ago

Salient statement of the thread.

"It's bad news. Without physical copies they can just erase Netflix originals from existence whenever they want (not that that is a big loss with many of them)."

Yes. They can also erase from existence any other non-original content ( movies/TV ) whenever they want. Oh sure, when you go to watch something previously available, even if it was on your "my list", and now it's unavailable, you'll get the "opportunity" to watch it on some other play platform.

Streaming sucks.