After 25 years, Netflix will finally stop shipping DVDs to people (mashable.com)

After 25 years, Netflix will finally stop shipping DVDs to people

The internet reacted.

Sarandos talked a bit about how important DVDs are to Netflix’s history in the blog post

Those iconic red envelopes changed the way people watched shows and movies at home and they paved the way for the shift to streaming.

Instead of physically traveling to a store and hoping they had whatever you wanted to watch in stock, you’d request something and Netflix would send it to you.

Some 5.2 billion (according to a graphic in Netflix’s blog post) shipments later, it’s coming to an end.

That said, there are still lots of movies that are only available on DVD and can’t be easily streamed, so this is sort of a bummer in that respect.

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