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 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.
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