Time to mourn the death of Netflix DVDs

 Netflix announced that they are going to stop shipping DVDs September 2023.

I'm often asked, "Why do you still get Netflix disks? What’s wrong with streaming?" For answer, here are 3 URLs from Netflix’s own website, describing their streaming catalog:

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/library/list-of-movies-from-the-1940s-on-netflix/ Number of titles: 0

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/library/list-of-movies-from-the-1950s-on-netflix/ Number of titles: 4

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/library/list-of-movies-from-the-1960s-on-netflix/ Number of titles: 5

And Netflix doesn't even provide a URL for movies before 1940.

By comparison, I know of no easy way to get the counts from their DVD catalog, but it looks like just entering a year in the DVD search box gives films made in that year. For the 1940’s, I see:

44+47+41+39+30+32+31+40+39+57 = Number of titles: 400

 

Once Netflix’s disk service is gone I'll be reserving more disks from the public library.