Netflix has just delivered its latest DVD… and it’s a masterpiece!
Long before revolutionizing television with its platform, the American group delivered DVDs, rented by mail order. The activity continued despite the explosion of streaming… until last Friday.
“After 25 incredible years, we have decided to close DVD.com. We want to leave with a bang and will ship our final discs on September 29, 2023.”
This time, it’s done : Netflix is now just a streaming company. The American group has just closed its DVD division, which had been delivering physical cakes by mail for a quarter of a century!
The first DVD sent by Netflixby post, dated April 1998. It was then Beetlejuice by Tim Burton. The very last Netflix DVD, sent last Friday (we don’t know to whom), was and will remain True Gritthe fabulous western from the Coen brothers (2010) carried by Jeff Bridges.
The DVD activity of Netflix was solid until 2006 and then from 2007, Netflix began offering “video on demand” via the Internet. The first steps of streaming. Ted Sarandos, CEO of the group present alongside founder Reed Hastings from the start, expressed his emotion on Instagram: “It was a huge honor to join the incredible DVD team in Fremont, CA this week to thank them for being a part of something that changed people’s lives.”
And if sending DVDs makes you smile today, Sarandos specifies that Netflix sent more than 5 billion “those iconic red envelopes, in cities large and small that otherwise would not have had access to the variety of films and television shows we make available.”
