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 ...

DVD rentals accounted for $126m (£101m) of Netflix’s $31.6bn (£25.4bn) ... We feel so privileged to have been able to share movie nights with our DVD members for so long, ...

Netflix started as a DVD rental company in 1998 and shipped movies and series to homes, which enticed customers who no longer wished to travel to video rental stores in person.

For anyone born after, say, the third season of Sex and the City, Netflix used to be a subscription-based DVD rental service when it launched its website in 1998.

Ty Burr is a film critic and the author of the movie recommendation newsletter Ty Burr’s Watch List. When Netflix announced on Tuesday that it would be shuttering its DVD rental-by-mail ...

Correction, Sept. 22, 2023: Due to an editing error, this piece originally misstated the amount of movies now available on Netflix streaming compared to at the height of the Netflix DVD-rental era.

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 ...

Netflix officially ended its DVD rental service with final shipments sent on Sept. 29, 2023, the streaming giant announced. The rental service started in 1998 and ran for 25 years.