Netflix Exiting Disc Rental Business After 25 Years

[tcripe]

Honestly thought they stopped doing disk rentals years ago.

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

I've also noticed that they have been taking away Redbox kiosks in my area recently. Never seen those email notices before, but then I got 2 kiosk removal notices within a week,

If you enjoy physical media rentals, go out and indulge while you still can.

[Hhal]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

If you can tolerate ads, the Saw movies besides Jigsaw and Spiral are streaming for free (with ad support) at Pluto TV

https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=saw

Ads are usually ok. I don't like them on my movies but I will put up with them if I got the time and its a movie I want to watch. Maybe I will try that.

When I have tried to watch movies on PlutoTV though, they have seemed to stream in SD for me, so I tend to avoid them for their on-demand stuff.

[Hhal]

Originally Posted by VictoryAtNight

GameFly still does disc rentals.

I think I might try them. Especially if I get a 4K player. They are a little pricier and have a much smaller collection, but they have 4K discs (and video games I suppose).

[Hhal]

Freevee, if it is like how IMDb TV was, is great for ad watching because the ads are usually less than 90 seconds and there are only four of them which you can go through before watching the movie. So when you watch it from the beginning you don't have the interruptions later on. I do that with Hulu a lot too.

[Chedwiggen]

I did not know they were even still doing this.

[VictoryAtNight]

Originally Posted by Hhal

I think I might try them. Especially if I get a 4K player. They are a little pricier and have a much smaller collection, but they have 4K discs (and video games I suppose).

I buy Blu-rays, UHDs and video games from them all the time.

I only rent from redbox.

[erixon20]

Originally Posted by VictoryAtNight

I buy Blu-rays, UHDs and video games from them all the time.

I only rent from redbox.

Why not rent from gamely?

[VictoryAtNight]

Originally Posted by erixon20

Why not rent from gamely?

GameFly has a monthly subscription fee. Whereas, I rent from redbox when I want to. Plus, I don't want to have to mail and wait for my next disc.

[An4h0ny]

I get it. But I've had a queue since near the beginning and gotta be honest.

This hurts.

Just gonna cancel now and get it over with.

[erixon20]

Originally Posted by VictoryAtNight

GameFly has a monthly subscription fee. Whereas, I rent from redbox when I want to. Plus, I don't want to have to mail and wait for my next disc.

oh-ok

[Zivouhr]

I never subscribed to Netflix disc rental, and relied on Blockbuster Video walk in stores, and before that, my old DVD VHS rental video stores for movies until they were gone too. Movie theaters most of all, and I'd buy my favorite movies on VHS, DVD and then blu ray.

The sad thing is, when Netflix and Redbox starting increasing business, I remember thinking more walk in video stores started losing business, but that's the nature of business if I'm not way off with my memory of it.

Once Blockbuster was gone, I relied on the bargain bins in Circuit City for new disc "rentals" that I kept for $3 to $5 each and built up a library of over 1000 movie discs over the years.

That's too bad Netflix gave up on disc format, but they're probably making way more money with their streaming pay app channel to care about disc fans sadly. I was temporarily subscribed for the 30 day free trial to Netflix, but dumped it before it was time to renew and pay. It was decent but these days, I mostly rely on movie theaters, disc purchases and then Tubi TV for legitimately free video rentals with the only pay being having to watch occasional commercials.

There will always be ENDLESS amounts of movies to watch or discover.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

In fact, I really can't keep up with everything I still need to watch.

I think streaming services most popular thing is browsing.

Hopefully those affected can find alternatives.

[Synchg]

who cares, they rarely had anything i wanted on blu-ray

[Talal86]

Discs are officially dead

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Talal86

Discs are officially dead

They said the same about vinyl

[witheygull]

Originally Posted by Hhal

Wait, are there other disc-by-mail services?

I've used this site before, and it worked well for me:

https://www.store-3d-blurayrental.com/Default.asp

[Talal86]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

They said the same about vinyl

they're not? I know some people collect them, but people collect all sort of things

[Jay H.]

The sky... it's falling. Again.

[y2jman]

Originally Posted by BeastCreatureTrapper

I've also noticed that they have been taking away Redbox kiosks in my area recently. Never seen those email notices before, but then I got 2 kiosk removal notices within a week,

If you enjoy physical media rentals, go out and indulge while you still can.

yeah my brother who lives down in franklin tenn told me that last weekend easter only 1 redbox left at a Walgreens

the closed redbox near my house is at dollar general store<-i usually have to rent somewhere else if out of stock like at Kroger's for an example yet i'm too cheap i just went dvd's instead blurays cost less