Netflix is going to “wind down” its DVD rental service, the company’s co-chief executive Ted Sarandos has announced. The DVD service, which still delivers films and TV shows in the red-and ...
Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service, ending an era that began 25 years ago when delivering discs through ...
The fewer than 1 million recipients who still subscribe to the DVD service will be able to keep the final discs that land in their mailboxes. “It’s sad,” longtime Netflix DVD subscriber ...
Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company. Charles Krupa/AP In his book ...
It comes as the company announced it would shut down the DVD rental service that launched the firm 25 years ago. Netflix has been on the hunt for ways to re-ignite growth, which has slowed sharply ...
1997: Netflix is founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company.