Tag: DVD
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The Death of DVDs? They May Soon Join VHS Tapes in the Bygone Media Graveyard
It’s been a rough year for DVDs and Blu-Rays. Over the years, mass viewer migration to streaming services has sent physical disc sales into a downward spiral. In August, trade association DEG: Digital Entertainment Group reported that U.S. physical media revenue fell from $1.5 billion in the first half of 2022 to $754 million in…
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Best Buy Will Reportedly Stop Selling DVDs and Blu-Ray Starting Next Year
Best Buy could be saying goodbye to physical media — DVDs, Blu-Ray and 4K Ultra HD discs — for good. The consumer electronics retailer will exit out of the physical media business as soon as the end of the first quarter of 2024, according to The Digital Bits. The move is another hint at the…
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Multiple Amazon Sellers Are Convicted of Price Fixing DVDs on Amazon & Must Pay $795,000 in Fines Along With Jail Time
The Department of Justice convicted several Amazon Marketplace sellers and companies for price fixing DVDs and Blu-Rays sold on the e-commerce site. The offending parties, who all plead guilty, were slapped fines collectively totaling almost $795,000 in addition to jail time, home confinement and supervised release. The convicted include companies like Michelle’s DVD Funhouse, MJR…
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Netflix Still has 2.28 Million DVD-By-Mail Customers
Remember when Netflix first started out as a DVD rental service? You’d receive the discs in the mail in those red and white envelopes and pop them into your DVD player. It’s been more than 20 years since Netflix launched, and today they are known as a streaming service and for their original content. But…
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DVD and Blu-ray Sales Have Dropped By Half in Past 5 Years
According to the 2018 Theatrical Home Entertainent Market Environment (THEME) report, the Motion Picture Association of America shared data on physical media and streaming services in the US. One of the standout points in the report was the dramatic fall in DVD and Blu-ray sales. In the US, sales of physical media (DVD and Blu-ray…
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GameFly Now Rents DVDs In Addition To Video Games
Looking for home delivery of DVDs but don’t want to try Netflix’s new DVD.com? Gamefly will now also rent DVDs and Blu-rays of the most current popular movies. Why would cord cutters want DVDs? Many here may just say they will stream it. (Renting movies on Amazon Video is often quicker than waiting for the…
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Netflix’s DVD Service Hits an 11-Year Subscriber Low
Maybe it will surprise some to find out that Netflix still rents DVDs. So for many it will not be a surprise that the Netflix-owned DVD.com lost more subscribers. The DVD service shed 159,000 subscribers during the final three months of 2016 to end December with 4.1 million customers. That’s an 11-year low for a…
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Meet DVD.com a Netflix Company — Also Known As Quickster 2.0…
Do you still rent DVDs from Netflix? You may have already noticed, or soon will notice, that Netflix’s DVD section has moved to a new website. Netflix is now pushing DVD subscribers over to DVD.com (A Netflix Company). This is essentially what Netflix wanted to do in 2001 with Quickster but now with a much…
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Netflix Just Released a New Feature No One Is Talking About
Still receive DVDs from Netflix? There is a new feature you should check out. Not sure what to add to your DVD list? Now Netflix allows you to add curated lists of DVDs to your queues. Netflix kicked off the new feature by creating a list of Oscar-nominated films, and you can add any of…
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One More Nail in the Coffin for DVDs…
The Emmys, who send out previews of potential Emmy Nominees to 18,500 members so they can vote on the year’s winners by DVD, released an email stating they will start sending out Chromecasts. The Academy says this initiative “represents the latest move by the Academy to evolve and enhance the viewing and voting procedures for…