Those red envelopes with DVD's that started arriving at homes in 1998 will stop on September 29, 2023. It's an end of an era for Netflix's once-revolutionary DVD-by-mail rental service. Netflix ended ...

SAN FRANCISCO - 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 a quarter-century ago when ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about Netflix's announced plan to end its DVD rental business. After 25 years, the last day the red envelopes will be mailed out is Sept. 29. Returns will be accepted through ...

Netflix will send out its last red envelope on Friday, marking an end to 25 years of mailing DVDs to members. The company announced earlier this year it is shutting down its DVD-by-mail service, 16 ...

Fondly remembering a simpler time: No need to shlep to a store for the tactile pleasures of physical media. By Thomas Doherty On April 18, Netflix announced that it was “sunsetting” — aka terminating ...

LOS GATOS -- The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix's once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs came up with a concept that obliterated ...

It’s officially the end of an era at Netflix. You just might have assumed that era ended years ago. The streaming giant has announced this fall it will retire its DVDs-by-mail service. Yes, Netflix ...

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-white ...

Many Netflix subscribers may have not been aware that they could still rent DVDs from the streaming service. After all, the company initially launched as a DVD-by-mail rental program back in 1998.