Netflix Wants to Send You 10 DVDs

When Netflix started in the late 1990s, its business model was to send physical DVDs to people for rent. Times have changed and the streaming company is shutting down its DVD subscription service next month after 25 years. The final discs will be mailed out on September 29, but Netflix is ​​hosting a DVD party, shipping up to 10 discs to customers, but only if they sign up for the program.

How to get ten DVDs from Netflix

Getting ten Netflix DVDs is easy, but you must have a Netflix DVD plan subscription. Luckily, even though the service will close soon, they are still accepting new members until August 28th.

• Go to the Netflix DVD homepage . If you don’t have a membership, register.
• Sign in to your Netflix DVD account.
• Make sure your queue contains at least 10 DVDs.
• Existing members have already received an email with a link to the Netflix Finale site, but if you’ve just signed up, log in and go to dvd.netflix.com/finalesurprise .
• Congratulations, you have registered! You won’t necessarily get all 10 last discs in your queue, but you can. Or you can get some of them. This is shitty shooting.

Can you keep DVDs sent by Netflix?

Unfortunately, Netflix isn’t giving away its massive DVD collection. You will still have to return the 10 discs they send you. The company says it will “continue to accept returns through October 27, 2023.”

What happens if you don’t return the DVD to Netflix?

While its DVD production is shutting down, Netflix itself will still be around, so it won’t be a situation where Blockbuster goes out of business, allowing people to keep the VHS tapes they’ve rented. If you do not return the Netflix discs, the company will charge your credit card for the cost of the discs.

Anyway, this is the idea. You never know how it will work in practice. Are they really going to chase outstanding discs? Maybe, but you never know.

Why would anyone want DVDs from Netflix anyway?

Streaming is instant and easy, and in many other ways better than physical media, but the Netflix DVD service has some advantages, especially when it comes to choice, price and nostalgia.

In contrast to the meager selection of streaming, you can find just about everything on Netflix’s disc rental service. It will rent films that are only available digitally or stream exclusively on another service. It’s cheaper if you do it right. Digital rentals can cost up to $6 apiece, and the cheapest Netflix plan is $9 a month, so if you watch at least two DVDs a month, you’re saving money.

DVD is better than streaming. To a certain degree.

The intangible advantage of the Netflix DVD service is nostalgia. Back in the 90s, Netflix’s “we’ll ship movies to your home” business plan was exciting and revolutionary. Anyone who signed up immediately realized how this would put video stores out of business, and that was before they started streaming.

Netflix has made it easy and convenient to be a movie file. At the time, it was hard to even find the movies you wanted, especially if your tastes were refined or low-end. Both feature films and trash movies were usually too obscure for your local Hollywood video shelves, but you could get both Fellini’s Satyricon and Cannibal Ferox on Netflix. You still can, at least for another month.

It was the golden age of comments and extras. These DVD-only deleted scenes, alternate takes, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and other goodies were the start of our current media-saturated era. It took a few years to realize that these scenes were deleted for some reason and that the comments could take the focus away from the film, not just improve it, but in the beginning these things were very cool and hard to understand if you’re used to a quick web search where you can find information about any movie or TV show you like.

Either way, you still have a few more weeks to sign up for NetFlix’s DVD service to relive the old days or just hear the death knell of a once-ubiquitous cultural force that is quickly forgotten.