At one point, Netflix had an estimated 40 million people signed up to receive DVDs through the mail, a privilege that seems quaint these days.

Source: https://realnewsmontana.com/ixp/117/p/netflix-dvds/

Disney also expects to sell about 800,000 “Elemental” DVDs worldwide.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/business/media/elemental-pixar-box-office.html

FYI – The last DVDs sent out today must be returned by October 27.

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/09/netflix-last-dvd-ted-sarandos-1235559988/

I still get the DVDs.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11988397/Netflix-cuts-DVD-rental-business-25-years-launched-company.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Library staff order new books, video games, and DVDs, among other items, from January through October, Ms. Young says.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2023/0515/Between-the-stacks-A-day-in-the-life-of-a-library?icid=rss

Overall, Magellan mapped more than 40% of Venus’s face—capturing images that at the time, were stored on DVDs, and shipped to various astronomy labs in cardboard boxes.

Source: https://time.com/6264160/why-volcanoes-on-venus-matter/

Renting DVDs through the mail became so popular that Netflix once ranked as the U.S. Postal Service’s fifth largest customer while mailing millions of discs each week from nearly 60 U.S. distribution centers at its peak.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/netflix-cofounder-likens-dvd-by-mail-service-to-unsung-booster-rocket-in-its-final-week/

That money could have gone on food, a couple of DVDs, or even a few books!

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/16/games-inbox-whats-the-easiest-way-to-get-cheap-video-games-19667903/

"The books are nice, the DVDs are nice, the E-library is nice.

Source: https://abc13.com/free-library-resources-houston-american-association-rosenberg-galveston-county-libraries/13667743/

The dance master also produced dance teaching DVDs over the years, for the industry and public alike, and wrote his autobiography Better Late Than Never in 2009.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/04/24/strictly-come-dancings-len-goodmans-unlikely-but-glittering-career-18662301/

This is a bit like getting into an aeroplane with a pilot that has read all the books and watched all the DVDs but has never actually taken off!

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/smallbusiness/article-11920553/Where-small-businesses-look-advice.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

This was before streaming, before Netflix, before DVDs.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/technology/heritage-auctions-vintage-videocassettes.html