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The last disc will be shipped on September 29th 2023 after 25 years of service.

After an incredible 25 year run, we've made the difficult decision to wind down at the end of September. Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members, but as the DVD business continues to shrink, that's going to become increasingly difficult. Making 2023 our Final Season allows us to maintain our quality of service through the last day and go out on a high note.

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[–] Diana@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

That's bad new. I rent a lot of DVDs and copy dvd to computer.

Their dvd library went to shit a looooong time ago, so to echo some other comments here- i’m surprised the service was even still around. I used to get multiple discs at a time. (i think they had a 3 disc at-a-time plan where you could send one back and they’d send you the next in your cue, but you’d always have 3 at home.) Then as streaming started to take off and they started making their own TV shows it seemed like there was less and less DVDs for rent, and not just because id watched them. I was getting notices of things on my “wish list” or whatever about to become unavailable, or movies i wanted to rent again were just gone from the library. This effected movies, documentaries, TV series, lots of different content types. They rolled streaming into my plan for free and i eventually gave up on discs entirely and just canceled that part of my plan, sadly. Eventually completely canceled everything a few years ago, ended up never using the service anymore. There’s my experience no one asked for!

[–] YourMomSaysHi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What're they gonna do with all those dvds?

[–] Voyajer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine at least some will just be kept and pocketed since you can hold on to them as long as you want already.

[–] Diana@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. We can convert those DVDs to ISO or digital files using ISO file converter.