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Post by brp on Apr 18, 2023 15:17:12 GMT -5
Just got an email from Netflix: Dear brp, For 25 years, it's been our extraordinary privilege to mail movie nights to our members all across America. On September 29th, 2023, we will ship our final iconic red envelope. While times have changed since our first shipment in March 1998, our goal has remained the same: to provide you with access to the broadest collection of movies and shows possible, delivered directly to your door, with no due dates or late fees. As the DVD business continues to shrink, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to achieve that goal. In our final season, we’ll continue providing you the best service possible, all the way to the very last shipment. You may have some questions, and we've tried to answer them in our Final Season FAQ - and if you want to share something with us, you can send feedback here. We sincerely thank you for joining us on this amazing journey. We could never have shipped more than 5 billion discs without movie lovers like you. It's been a genuine privilege to share movie nights with you. Pop the popcorn, fire up your player, and enjoy this final season of red envelopes. Sincerely, The Netflix DVD team I do hope that they add more of this as streaming, even if a higher-level membership. We are traveling much of April and May. Will likely move back to a 2-disk plan from them until end of September to work through our queue.
Edit: Seems that I had written "stop streaming disks," but it's "stop mailing disks." I've fixed the title.
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Post by BWV Dreamin on Apr 18, 2023 17:18:55 GMT -5
At least they postponed the “sharing passwords “ changes….
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Post by brp on Apr 18, 2023 17:21:26 GMT -5
At least they postponed the “sharing passwords “ changes…. As someone who doesn't share, I'm looking forward to these coming in and hope they're effective as it will likely help prevent costs going up as much for users.
Cheers.
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Post by mcd on Apr 18, 2023 18:57:27 GMT -5
I saw this news today and didn't even realize they still offered a disk option. I am not sure we have watched anything on a disk in my house in 5 years. Probably longer. I did enjoy the Netflix disks back in the day.
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Post by disneyteach on Apr 18, 2023 21:47:57 GMT -5
I saw this news today and didn't even realize they still offered a disk option. I am not sure we have watched anything on a disk in my house in 5 years. Probably longer. I did enjoy the Netflix disks back in the day. Same! We used to get disks a long time ago but I had no idea they still did it! I do wonder if stopping the mailing will curb prices. I feel the cost of Netflix just keeps going up and the content isn't even that great anymore. We did enjoy "Night Agent" that was recently released, however. |
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Post by broganmc on Apr 18, 2023 22:31:01 GMT -5
It's been a long time since I got a disc in the house. In fact none of my computers even have DVD drives anymore. And I rarely ever use my DVD player. I don't think I've used it and probably the last 5 years.
As for Netflix, I really did like their Lost in Space series. That was a really well done recreation of a classic. But I wouldn't subscribe to Netflix if it wasn't included in my T-Mobile plan. I just fine they have fewer things I'm interested in.
It is funny that nowadays we're more likely to find original series on streaming media then television. I'm an old Doctor Who fan and I remember arguing that time would come about 10 years ago. People called me crazy. Turns out I wasn't so nuts after all.
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Post by BWV Dreamin on Apr 19, 2023 7:06:26 GMT -5
It's been a long time since I got a disc in the house. In fact none of my computers even have DVD drives anymore. And I rarely ever use my DVD player. I don't think I've used it and probably the last 5 years. As for Netflix, I really did like their Lost in Space series. That was a really well done recreation of a classic. But I wouldn't subscribe to Netflix if it wasn't included in my T-Mobile plan. I just fine they have fewer things I'm interested in. It is funny that nowadays we're more likely to find original series on streaming media then television. I'm an old Doctor Who fan and I remember arguing that time would come about 10 years ago. People called me crazy. Turns out I wasn't so nuts after all. Ok another show to put on my TV viewing list…” Lost in Space” on Netflix. Thanks! Love me some Dr. Who! |
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Post by WDWGoof on Apr 19, 2023 9:07:07 GMT -5
We still use discs a lot. Use to have it through Netflix but stopped a while back. But, it’s hard to find online the good, old fashioned movies (ie Sleepless in Seattle, While you were Sleeping, Sense and Sensibility, etc.) without having to have a subscription somewhere, so we’ve bought a lot over time that we can always pop one in without the search only to find you have to rent or have a subscription. Works for us.
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Post by brp on Apr 19, 2023 9:11:49 GMT -5
I saw this news today and didn't even realize they still offered a disk option. I am not sure we have watched anything on a disk in my house in 5 years. Probably longer. I did enjoy the Netflix disks back in the day. I saw this news today and didn't even realize they still offered a disk option. I am not sure we have watched anything on a disk in my house in 5 years. Probably longer. I did enjoy the Netflix disks back in the day. Same! We used to get disks a long time ago but I had no idea they still did it! I do wonder if stopping the mailing will curb prices. I feel the cost of Netflix just keeps going up and the content isn't even that great anymore. We did enjoy "Night Agent" that was recently released, however. It's been a long time since I got a disc in the house. In fact none of my computers even have DVD drives anymore. And I rarely ever use my DVD player. I don't think I've used it and probably the last 5 years.
This is not the first time I've seen comments like this. We would prefer to just stream (and it seems we'll get our wish in October  ). It's just that so much of the content we want is not available streaming on Netlix. Maybe an additional streaming service could supplant that. We also have Prime, Paramount+ and, I think, Peacock.
We had moved some time back from a 2-disk to 1-disk plan. But it was had to move away completely and see what we wanted. Especially new releases that just did not, to us, require the big screen experience.
What do ohers do for this?
Cheers.
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Post by brerkaren on Apr 19, 2023 9:56:49 GMT -5
This is not the first time I've seen comments like this. We would prefer to just stream (and it seems we'll get our wish in October ). It's just that so much of the content we want is not available streaming on Netlix. Maybe an additional streaming service could supplant that. We also have Prime, Paramount+ and, I think, Peacock.
We had moved some time back from a 2-disk to 1-disk plan. But it was had to move away completely and see what we wanted. Especially new releases that just did not, to us, require the big screen experience.
What do ohers do for this?
Cheers.
You often can rent and stream new releases through Vudu. We've done that on multiple occasions. I believe you can also get some new releases through Google Play and iTunes as well. |
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Post by mcd on Apr 19, 2023 10:12:07 GMT -5
This is not the first time I've seen comments like this. We would prefer to just stream (and it seems we'll get our wish in October ). It's just that so much of the content we want is not available streaming on Netlix. Maybe an additional streaming service could supplant that. We also have Prime, Paramount+ and, I think, Peacock.
We had moved some time back from a 2-disk to 1-disk plan. But it was had to move away completely and see what we wanted. Especially new releases that just did not, to us, require the big screen experience.
What do others do for this?
Cheers.
You often can rent and stream new releases through Vudu. We've done that on multiple occasions. I believe you can also get some new releases through Google Play and iTunes as well. Amazon Prime Video has content that can be rented or purchased that I don't see elsewhere. I have been building building a huge video library for a couple decades from lots of sources (DVDs, sources I can't share on here). It totals about 35TB at this point, and I use PLEX as the front end. Thats what I pull from for older content. I also have Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV+, Amazon Prime Video, and YoutubeTV. I feel like its impossible to get everything you would want from any 3 streaming services. It is so fragmented that its actually getting worse than Cable/Satellite in many ways. Myself and many others have been lauding streaming as a cable/satellite killer, and it is. But it has also brought about a new set of problems of fragmentation that makes it clumsy to access these sources quickly and easily along with basically bringing the price back up to what we had before once you subscribe to several of these. I honestly prefer what I have now to cable/satellite, but I recognize the problems it has created and the difficulty for folks less tech savvy. |
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Post by brp on Apr 19, 2023 10:22:16 GMT -5
You often can rent and stream new releases through Vudu. We've done that on multiple occasions. I believe you can also get some new releases through Google Play and iTunes as well. Amazon Prime Video has content that can be rented or purchased that I don't see elsewhere. I have been building building a huge video library for a couple decades from lots of sources (DVDs, sources I can't share on here). It totals about 35TB at this point, and I use PLEX as the front end. Thats what I pull from for older content. I also have Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV+, Amazon Prime Video, and YoutubeTV. I feel like its impossible to get everything you would want from any 3 streaming services. It is so fragmented that its actually getting worse than Cable/Satellite in many ways. Myself and many others have been lauding streaming as a cable/satellite killer, and it is. But it has also brought about a new set of problems of fragmentation that makes it clumsy to access these sources quickly and easily along with basically bringing the price back up to what we had before once you subscribe to several of these. I honestly prefer what I have now to cable/satellite, but I recognize the problems it has created and the difficulty for folks less tech savvy.
Thanks for the analysis. I don't have an interest in accumulation. I want to watch it and be done with it. The fragmentation you mention is something that I definitely experience. A friend mentioned that a Roku front end can search all of this, but watching things on the TV is not a high priority for us (we have not watched TV/cable for going on two decades), so that's overkill.
I want to just stream or play something, then move on. I guess paying a few bucks for what we want on Prime may be better than a streaming service that we have to pay for and use infrequently (we pay for only Netflix - Prime comes with Amazon, Paramount+ comes with a credit card, Peacock comes with our internet, I think). If there were another we'd use enough, I might add one. Maybe Vudu or Hulu? I have to do more research come October
Disks are not an ideal medium and mechanism, but Netflix does seem to have a good selection.
Cheers.
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Post by brerkaren on Apr 19, 2023 10:34:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the analysis. I don't have an interest in accumulation. I want to watch it and be done with it. The fragmentation you mention is something that I definitely experience. A friend mentioned that a Roku front end can search all of this, but watching things on the TV is not a high priority for us (we have not watched TV/cable for going on two decades), so that's overkill.
I want to just stream or play something, then move on. I guess paying a few bucks for what we want on Prime may be better than a streaming service that we have to pay for and use infrequently (we pay for only Netflix - Prime comes with Amazon, Paramount+ comes with a credit card, Peacock comes with our internet, I think). If there were another we'd use enough, I might add one. Maybe Vudu or Hulu? I have to do more research come October
Disks are not an ideal medium and mechanism, but Netflix does seem to have a good selection.
Cheers.
FYI Vudu isn't a monthly streaming service. It is a video on demand service that allows you to rent or buy movies. So you only pay for what you use. Blockbuster for the streaming age. |
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Post by mcd on Apr 19, 2023 10:34:49 GMT -5
Amazon Prime Video has content that can be rented or purchased that I don't see elsewhere. I have been building building a huge video library for a couple decades from lots of sources (DVDs, sources I can't share on here). It totals about 35TB at this point, and I use PLEX as the front end. Thats what I pull from for older content. I also have Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV+, Amazon Prime Video, and YoutubeTV. I feel like its impossible to get everything you would want from any 3 streaming services. It is so fragmented that its actually getting worse than Cable/Satellite in many ways. Myself and many others have been lauding streaming as a cable/satellite killer, and it is. But it has also brought about a new set of problems of fragmentation that makes it clumsy to access these sources quickly and easily along with basically bringing the price back up to what we had before once you subscribe to several of these. I honestly prefer what I have now to cable/satellite, but I recognize the problems it has created and the difficulty for folks less tech savvy.
Thanks for the analysis. I don't have an interest in accumulation. I want to watch it and be done with it. The fragmentation you mention is something that I definitely experience. A friend mentioned that a Roku front end can search all of this, but watching things on the TV is not a high priority for us (we have not watched TV/cable for going on two decades), so that's overkill.
I want to just stream or play something, then move on. I guess paying a few bucks for what we want on Prime may be better than a streaming service that we have to pay for and use infrequently (we pay for only Netflix - Prime comes with Amazon, Paramount+ comes with a credit card, Peacock comes with our internet, I think). If there were another we'd use enough, I might add one. Maybe Vudu or Hulu? I have to do more research come October
Disks are not an ideal medium and mechanism, but Netflix does seem to have a good selection.
Cheers.
Using the apps on the TV is by far the most convenient. But all the little box options (Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick/TV, etc) all now offer the ability to be signed in to all these streaming services at once and search and view content in a more unified manner like your friend has. Some services are still stubborn and don't allow it (like Apple TV+ if you aren't on an Apple TV). Streaming and moving on is easy but stinks as these services remove old content that you can't access anymore when you want to watch an episode of Frasier or Cheers for example. No perfect solution. You find what works best for you and your household. |
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Post by rwethereyet on Apr 19, 2023 11:17:55 GMT -5
I didn't know that they still did this. I would have thought with streaming, this would have ended a long time ago.
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). It's just that so much of the content we want is not available streaming on Netlix. Maybe an additional streaming service could supplant that. We also have Prime, Paramount+ and, I think, Peacock.
