Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

Two days for 2 out of 3 (and I assume the 3rd probably went out later in the day and will be here tomorrow or that it's a postal twitch) is pretty damn good for what I assume is a recently begun company (at least more recently than Netflix); I don't know if it's that I'm near their major distribution center, or if they have multiple ones a la Netflix.

seriously tempted by it as the rip off dvd rental place near me is 3 pounds a night!

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I'm assuming the selections aren't going to be as good, though

Two more movies arrived today, again with only a two-day delay. Their main base of operations is in Indiana, as it turns out, so that's helpful.

Orgazmo also arrived today, after, what, nine days -- it was shipped with the initial movies, and judging from the packaging it was mishandled somehow; it's re-stamped "correction," with a March 29th postmark on top of the March 23rd one.

Blade
Decasia
Beyond The Mat

And I'll try and make it to see Hellboy and The Return at the theater.

But they're so fast otherwise that it seems worth it until I run out of region 1 movies I want to watch.

One of the unexpectedly nice things about them is that they have a lot of the Disney discs of shorts that Netflix doesn't or that are out of print -- the Complete Goofy, Mickey Mouse in Black and White, etc.

Since our price increase in June, some of our members have expressed concerns about the new pricing. We've listened to this feedback and are pleased to inform you that we're lowering the price of your Netflix 3-at-a-time program from $21.99 per month to 17.99 per month.

Sounds like trouble a-brewin'.

STILL WAITING

Also many rentals, including the execrable Ordinary People and Dummy, were not my choices.

ORDINARY PEOPLE MADE ME CRY LIKE A BABY IN ONIONLAND

end of an era

Our last-ever day of shipping out the red envelopes is getting close. You have 40 more days to enjoy your DVD Netflix membership before we send out our final shipments on September 29th. Here are a few ways you can make the most of this final season:
Move must-watch titles to the top of your queue, to increase your chances of receiving them. We’ve also added a handy "move streamable titles to the bottom" option to help you make sure each red envelope counts! (Note that if your queue has no streamable titles, this option won’t be shown.)
Your data will be available until October 27th, so be sure to download a keepsake PDF of your queue, rental history, ratings, and reviews here. Plus, due to popular request, we’ve added the option to download in CSV format!
The last day to change your plan is August 28th. If you’d like to get more discs, browse our plans here.
As a reminder, September 29th is definitely our last day of shipping. Naturally, we hope everyone successfully receives their last shipments – however, in the event that a disc gets damaged or lost in the mail, we will unfortunately not be able to ship you a replacement after September 29th.
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—The Netflix DVD team

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/netflix-dvds-mail-ending/675204/

The real reason I stuck it out was the queue. Netflix allows DVD subscribers to save titles to a list of films, which are then sent in the order in which you added them. I’ve grown very attached to this system, and I’m not looking forward to its disappearance. At one point, I had more than 200 movies in my queue—years’ worth of viewing, especially after I switched from three discs at a time to one. Even as I started adding more streaming to my movie diet, I kept one strict rule: If there was a new DVD waiting for me from Netflix, I had to watch that first. Long day at work and not really in an Ingmar Bergman mood? Too bad, buddy. You-from-eight-months-ago thought you should watch The Silence, so that’s what you’re watching.

Got billed yesterday. The one nice part about losing the disc service is now I'm paying them like 55% less a month until I saw 'fuck it' and cancel.

The post office lost one of the discs I sent back on Tuesday, and Netflix has already disabled the customer service arm of DVD.com, so I'm being shorted a disc in my final delivery. All in all, a perfect way to close this thing out.

Great work everyone!

I don't know why they don't just let everyone keep their final selections, but I guess they don't technically own the discs? Like they're just licensing them from the distributors/studios or something.. so they'll all end up in a landfill I imagine

They are letting people keep their absolute final selections, I'm just getting jipped out of one because of the post office.

If you signed up for it, you could also get ten random discs to keep on top of that.

I don't think the word gets better to use if you spell it differently btw

We lost disc service for this?

https://netflixtoken.io/

Is this 2022?