Do you have movies in your queue that can’t be seen on streaming services?
  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    2 years ago

    My initial thought was that it’s wild anyone is still using the DVD service at all, but then, I suppose there’s plenty of areas where bandwidth for streaming just isn’t readily available, and there’s probably a lot of older folks who know how to use a DVD player but aren’t comfortable with the internet.

    It doesn’t look like subscribers will be able to keep the extra DVDs, though, as Netflix still expects them — along with any other discs — to be returned by October 27th, 2023.

    That’s kind of too bad. I can’t imagine there’s much of a secondary market for a shitload of very used DVDs, they could have just unloaded their inventory onto the people who’re still subscribed as a ‘Hey, thanks for being a tiny revenue stream for us for 25 years.’ I imagine they’d have to just sell them all in massive bulk; otherwise, would they even get more than it would cost to pay someone to process the sales?

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      It’s probably actually a contractual thing and they’re not allowed to sell or give away the DVDs. I wonder if they’re going to a landfill or they’re gonna get dumped into stores in Africa for like 5 cents each.