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NutmegCT

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Yep - I've been enjoying Netflix movies on DVD for many years.

Just learned from Netflix they're ending the DVD service in September.

No problem - just switch to the streaming, eh?

But most of the movies available on Netflix DVD (I've got over 100 in my queue) aren't available on Netflix streaming. yeesh

Wondered if anyone else is hitting this brick wall. Seems to be another corporate victory in reducing service while increasing profit.

Tom M.
 
Remember Blockbuster? They went out of business because they focused on a niche area and had to carry a lot of inventory, some of which moved slow. Same with Toys-are-Us, and now Bed, Bath & Beyond. Corporations have to maintain profitability to keep investors happy and maintain their stock price when they announce quarterly earnings. It often ends up that corporations lose focus on long-term thinking by chasing quarterly profits.
 
We have Netflix streaming. I thought they had ended the DVD service long ago.
 
Thanks. What got my dander up, is that there are/were *many* more movies available from Netflix DVD, than are available from Netflix streaming.

I'd stuck with their DVD program, due to the titles available.

Reminds me of what someone here once said: Eventually the price of things goes up, but the number of things available goes down.

You get hooked on a service, but soon the service becomes less attractive.

(Remember Steppenwolf's "Pusher Man"?)

grumble grumble
 
NutmegCT said:
Thanks. What got my dander up, is that there are/were *many* more movies available from Netflix DVD, than are available from Netflix streaming.

I'd stuck with their DVD program, due to the titles available.

Reminds me of what someone here once said: Eventually the price of things goes up, but the number of things available goes down.

You get hooked on a service, but soon the service becomes less attractive.

(Remember Steppenwolf's "Pusher Man"?)

grumble grumble
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Every time I visit my local WalMArt, I end up buying DVD movies (sometimes very good titles) for like $5 a pop. Just something to think about.
 
I think that a large element of this decision is based on the habits of younger people. Many of my students have told me that their households only use streaming services. Which means, that many people my age have even given up DVDs in favor of streaming.
 
(And many people have replaced thinking, with streaming ...)

How many headlines can I quickly swipe across my screen?!

OK - back to my cave.
 
I’m totally with you on the DVD service. Massive bummer, because it was almost the only way to get obscure movies.

The problem with streaming services, is that none of them have “all” the movies. For example, I am a huge fan of The Simpsons (don’t hate me 🤪), but this means I have to get Disney+. I’m too cheap to do that; life goes on without the Simpsons

As a family, we will probably end up subscribing to one streaming service for a few months, and then switching. We left cable for Netflix a few decades ago because of the high bill / countless useless channels. I have no desire to go back!
 
Mike - I'm old enough to remember the late '40s and 1950s. You paid $150 for a 14" b/w TV set. You set an antenna on your roof.

You then had only a few channels, but pretty much everything on TV was interesting, useful, entertaining, or enlightening. You Are There, Omnibus, Texaco Star Theater, Ed Sullivan, The Dinah Shore Show, Amos and Andy, I Married Joan, and the list goes on.

And there was no charge to watch all those shows.

With only one TV in the house, the whole family enjoyed - and discussed - what they saw and heard. And what they saw and heard wasn't embarrassing.

Want to buy a refrigerator? June Graham has one with an easy-open door ...

 
Lucky you; we didn't get a TV until I was 9. Not because we couldn't, but because there were no channels until we moved to Phoenix.
 
John - I remember when I was a kid, looking at the TV schedules in the daily newspaper.

TV didn't start broadcasting until 5am when you saw the camera test card, followed by raising the flag, and programming stopped at 12:30pm. Started up again at 5:30pm, and ran until the national anthem was played at 10:30pm.

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NutmegCT said:
You then had only a few channels, but pretty much everything on TV was interesting, useful, entertaining, or enlightening. You Are There, Omnibus, Texaco Star Theater, Ed Sullivan, The Dinah Shore Show, Amos and Andy, I Married Joan, and the list goes on.
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You can also add these shows to your list….
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And back when I was a little kid you wouldn't necessarily recognize who you were watching since the signal had so little information and the B/W screen had so few pixels. Now days you can count nose hairs...

BTW, you see we could be going into a writers strike come tomorrow, so maybe lots of reruns ahead for today's shows.
 
A TV picture from the 1920s -

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The Baird (British) system transmitted by BBC.
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Anna's accompanied by 30 vertical lions.
 
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