Netflix wants to mail you it's old DVDs

Literally tricking people into accepting their garbage. What a scam. I do this at Goodwill though to skip going to the dump. Get a box of trash or whatever and put an old shirt or something on it. Then just donate it while you are doing errands in town anyway, they will take anything.
 
tl;dr: You can register here to get up to ten DVDs as netflix shuts down it's physical DVD mailing service.
Guys, this is an offer for current DVD subscribers, and you still have to send them back. (The deadline to return DVDs is about a month after they stop shipping them out.) If you win this, you just get 10 more DVDs shipped from your queue.

I never signed up for Netflix because I was worried about what happened when the post office lost or damaged the DVD you sent back.
I assume you got billed for it.
Netflix was pretty forgiving, actually. You could report if it arrived scratched, and if you mailed it and it didn't show up as received in a reasonable time you could report it. They'd just ask when you mailed it and where, i.e. in your outgoing mail vs. dropped off at the Post Office.

I've said it before elsewhere, but even if you're somewhere with good bandwidth, what we're losing with DVD Netflix is the deep back catalog.
 
Never understood the nostalgia for them. Always hated when my PS1 and PS2 discs got scratched or had fingerprints on them.
I shot all the dvds I owned except for a small few. To be fair most of them were used from the video store and a lot of them were garbage. They make good targets though.
 
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Cool. Physical copies are king, since digital stuff isn't guaranteed to be yours forever (unless you pirate).
That's a pretty enormous caveat. I just don't understand the affectation for physical media when disc rot is a very real phenomenon and modern hard drives are so huge and cheap.

Storing a bunch of DVDs seems like all inconvenience with no upside.
 
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Storing a bunch of DVDs seems like all inconvenience with no upside.
In defense of DVDs going obsolete, I really liked how so many had really fun packaging. Some of them had interesting menus and quality special features you just can't find elsewhere, and many of those just get nuked on sight when uploaded to YouTube. So there's still merit to keeping around some DVDs.

I even made a thread about DVD packaging: https://kiwifarms.pl/threads/what-dvds-had-the-most-interesting-packaging.166229/

Everyone needs to learn how to copy their DVDs to their hard drives, anyway. MakeMKV to rip them, Handbrake to compress them.
 
That's a pretty enormous caveat. I just don't understand the affectation for physical media when disc rot is a very real phenomenon and modern hard drives are so huge and cheap.

Storing a bunch of DVDs seems like all inconvenience with no upside.
That assumes that society continues like business as usual and the movies continue to be easily accessible over the internet.
 
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That assumes that society continues like business as usual and the movies continue to be easily accessible over the internet.
If society fails to the degree that you can no longer access movies on your hard drive, what the hell good will having them on a DVD do?
 
If society fails to the degree that you can no longer access movies on your hard drive, what the hell good will having them on a DVD do?
because eventually you'll rig your old generator to run on lard and want to pass times with your grandchildren by showing them your generation's myths and legends?
 
Truer Chad's remember Family Video rental stores- still kicking baby! Because wifi in Illinois is shit, and I can't get a pizza while picking up a DVD at the same place
The truest of Chads remember using a cassette recorder in front of the speaker of a less then 20" CRT TV and losing their shit if anyone made any noise at all while recording.
 
Truer Chad's remember Family Video rental stores- still kicking baby! Because wifi in Illinois is shit, and I can't get a pizza while picking up a DVD at the same place
my old Family Video Rental was between a Pizza Loca and Domino's. Shit was cash. I used to talk to the owner who was sad his kids didn't want to run the business and he would have to sell but Netflix ended up killing his business anyways
 
The truest of Chads remember using a cassette recorder in front of the speaker of a less then 20" CRT TV and losing their shit if anyone made any noise at all while recording.
I did that a few times with my finger pushing the pause button halfway down, which sped up the tape while recording (meaning any audio it was recording would play back at a slower speed) mainly to hear what Alvin and the other Chipmunks actually sounded like (Alvin sounded a lot like Dave Seville speaking very slowly).
 
used to not anymore; sadly, I just don't watch movies anymore, but if I did, I would just use my old xbox to watch ththem.
OG Xbox or Xbox One? Either way, both are pretty good media players tbh. Pick up a few man, if only to rip the data to your PC, you get the bonus features too! A external burner you can hook into a laptop is certainly cheap enough. As for a dedicated player, a regular blu ray player non-black Friday can be 50 bucks if you look for a deal, and it'll upscale DVD's, perfect for this program Netflix has.
 
All things being equal I prefer the convenience of digital. Sadly, DVD rips of older stuff is usually horribly compressed because back when it was ripped people were worried about space and download time, and now the quality of streaming is getting worse and worse as they cut the bitrate and overall quality in an attempt to reduce costs.
 
OG Xbox or Xbox One? Either way, both are pretty good media players tbh. Pick up a few man, if only to rip the data to your PC, you get the bonus features too! A external burner you can hook into a laptop is certainly cheap enough. As for a dedicated player, a regular blu ray player non-black Friday can be 50 bucks if you look for a deal, and it'll upscale DVD's, perfect for this program Netflix has.
I have a left-over Amazon gift card from Christmas with 100 bucks on it. I might get a DVD player. Could you link which one I should get?
 
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I have a left-over Amazon gift card from Christmas with 100 bucks on it. I might get a DVD player. Could you link which one I should get?
I doubt there is going to be much difference between a $100 dvd player and a $15 one. Unless you want something special like it doubling as a surround sound system or a game console.
 
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