Time to mourn the death of Netflix DVDs
Aug. 16th, 2023 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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:
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:
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