My initial thought was that it’s wild anyone is still using the DVD service at all, but then, I suppose there’s plenty of areas where bandwidth for streaming just isn’t readily available, and there’s probably a lot of older folks who know how to use a DVD player but aren’t comfortable with the internet.
It doesn’t look like subscribers will be able to keep the extra DVDs, though, as Netflix still expects them — along with any other discs — to be returned by October 27th, 2023.
That’s kind of too bad. I can’t imagine there’s much of a secondary market for a shitload of very used DVDs, they could have just unloaded their inventory onto the people who’re still subscribed as a ‘Hey, thanks for being a tiny revenue stream for us for 25 years.’ I imagine they’d have to just sell them all in massive bulk; otherwise, would they even get more than it would cost to pay someone to process the sales?