{"id":6897,"date":"2017-07-11T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2017-06-27T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:54:41","slug":"linked-netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/linked-netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Netflix\u2019s DVD Subscription Is Still Great, Dammit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2918,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/the-brothers-geek\\\/netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit-7048912cb690&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230418234947\\\/https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/the-brothers-geek\\\/netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit-7048912cb690&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 02:05:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-13 19:41:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27 17:32:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 04:33:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 00:55:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-16 01:40:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 03:32:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 02:52:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:08:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 06:43:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 06:43:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-brothers-geek\/netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit-7048912cb690\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Medium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I pay for cable and Netflix. I, ahem, \u201chave access\u201d to Amazon Prime and the quartet of premium cable movies channels (HBO\/Starz\/Cinemax\/Showtime). There\u2019s probably a Redbox on my porch fully loaded with copies of Trolls. Hulu\u2019s library is garbage; nobody needs Hulu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nYet the best content* service in my life is Netflix\u2019s DVD-by-mail subscription service, which I\u2019ve happily paid for each month since 2009 and will until they decide it\u2019s no longer worth the postage servicing the six dozen people that still pay for it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Six &#8211; Dozen and One.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, DirecTV and a few other conglomerates were legally trying to stop Netflix from getting movies on release-Tuesday claiming that Netflix was hurting movie sales. They started a campaign \u201cbefore netflix\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, streaming happened and everyone moved on and now it\u2019s all about building this moat around your subscribers with original content. This is great for film geeks. Because everyone forgot about us. Now, you can get every Netflix movie in Blu-Ray, in HD legally the day after it comes out in stores \/ streaming and watch it uncompressed in full resolution in 5.1 surround sound at home without any stream buffering, net neutrality debates, region locking or paying for multiple streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix puts that movie in the US Mail and it gets to you the next day. It will look better than renting it on iTunes and if you watch a movie a week, it\u2019ll cost you less than renting on iTunes. Netflix DVD is amazing if you\u2019re a movie buff. Just don\u2019t tell Netflix that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Medium: I pay for cable and Netflix. I, ahem, \u201chave access\u201d to Amazon Prime and the quartet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-07-11T12:52:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"98e97ff2-9bc0-4710-a27d-8dbce5c90e6a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-07-11T12:52:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AmOl_8pvARxCifY285ckOag","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Nf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6895,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/linked-netflixs-us-catalog-has-shrunk-by-more-than-2500-titles-in-less-than-2-5-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":6897,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Netflix\u2019s US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via AllFlicks: The statistics are simple and remarkable: in January of 2014, Netflix offered its US-based users a selection of 6,494 movies and 1,609 TV shows, for a total of 8,103 titles. 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