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Dang, first Blockbuster goes out of business, now this.
If only there was a way to watch movies without DVDs or VHS tapes. Yup the Davos syndrome, you will own nothing and like it. LOL, we still have a VHS, DVD player, and a metric shìtload of tapes and disks. And like Teal said, when I'm off the grid I'm not watching movies. But you can't expect Netflix to keep mailing disks when there's no market for it, which is the subject of the OP.
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. . Speaking of, does anybody know how to stop the VCR clock from flashing 12:00? Piece of black electrical tape covers it nicely Yup, so does setting the clock to 12:01
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What will Netflix do with their inventory?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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What will Netflix do with their inventory? Have a yard sale in Oregon. LOL
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Dang, first Blockbuster goes out of business, now this.
If only there was a way to watch movies without DVDs or VHS tapes. Yup the Davos syndrome, you will own nothing and like it. LOL, we still have a VHS, DVD player, and a metric shìtload of tapes and disks. And like Teal said, when I'm off the grid I'm not watching movies. But you can't expect Netflix to keep mailing disks when there's no market for it, which is the subject of the OP. I wasn’t dissing you bud.
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What's a Netflix?
Never heard of it.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Stressing about no dvds has boomer written all over it. Why are you afraid of BillyGoatGruff? She also appears very askeered of Boomers.
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Dang, first Blockbuster goes out of business, now this.
If only there was a way to watch movies without DVDs or VHS tapes. Yup the Davos syndrome, you will own nothing and like it. LOL, we still have a VHS, DVD player, and a metric shìtload of tapes and disks. And like Teal said, when I'm off the grid I'm not watching movies. But you can't expect Netflix to keep mailing disks when there's no market for it, which is the subject of the OP. I wasn’t dissing you bud. What?? You must be new here.
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Stressing about no dvds has boomer written all over it. You busted me for stressing. Where did you get your Phd in Psychology? By God you are sharp as a tack. No, I have never rented a single movie from Netflix. Whether Netflix is billionaires, which they are, or if they are bankrupt makes little difference to me. No, I am a student of history, I remember renting videotapes from Blockbuster, really enjoyed that, a Blockbuster store was a movie library with 5,000 movies on the shelf. Then, brick and mortar Blockbuster was annihilated by mail order DVDs from Netflix. Interesting to me how the new technology supplants the old. We still have a couple dozen DVDs but haven't watched in a while.
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Yup the Davos syndrome, you will own nothing and like it. Yeah, the WEF is phasing out physical media as a distribution method for the revolting Jewish propaganda many of you consume in great quantities. Makes sense.
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The cool thing about the DVD part of a subscription was that the titles were borderline limitless.
Which made Netflix an insane bargain.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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If all movies/shows are streaming, they can eliminate the ones they don't like and you'll never get them back. Just like a virtual currency.
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When Carol left, and I was on my own, I joined Netflix. At the time they had a pile of those old Westerns that I grew up on. I’d have 2 or 3 every weekend. The Searchers, Red River, Once Upon a Time, 3:10 To Yuma. I ain’t gonna sugar coat it. For a while there I didn’t care if The Sun come up tomorrow. But those old Westerns kept me getting up in the morning, going to work, going hunting. After while, I got my Schit back together, and as I did, those old Westerns started drying up. The Shootist and Winchester 73 were a available thru streaming, but the DVDs you couldn’t get! I got to watching them Walmart bins, ordered quite a few from B&N. It took a week to get them, but you can’t beat The Cheyenne Social Club and The Westerner, Hanging Tree for $5 clip! I’ve built up quite a collection of Duke, Jimmy Stewart, Fonda, Glenn Ford, Bronson, Marvin, Eastwood. Hell, I even got Paint Your Wagon! When I die, Ben’s gonna have a lotta crap he won’t know what to do with! They’ll probably go to goodwill or the Salvation Army, And He’ll Never know the treasure he had and gave away! I wish I could get him to watch them. Maybe if our kids had watched them Westerns, they’d know that if you stick it out, The Good Guys are gonna win! 7mm
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The thing about videotapes, and I have watched a thousand of them, sometimes while rewinding the tape got spooled up and the thing was ruined. Then you had to duke it out with Blockbuster as to who was at fault. Also, you had to have a "cleaner" video to put in your deck once a month to "clean the heads" to assure good video quality. If you left a videotape in your car for a couple days in the hot summer sun, in Georgia, it was fried and was destroyed. Take that up with Blockbuster. Still the video and audio quality of video tapes was pretty good.
The DVD came out, largely via Netflix in 1998, none of those problems. The DVD was impervious to heat and the sound and video quality were superb. I thought DVDs were great! By sending these movies out via US Mail, Netflix destroyed Blockbuster, and Blockbuster was a billion dollar company.
Now the DVD is in the dustbin of history.
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If all movies/shows are streaming, they can eliminate the ones they don't like No they can't.
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If all movies/shows are streaming, they can eliminate the ones they don't like and you'll never get them back. Just like a virtual currency. You could always start your own business, mailing out DVDs. And go bankrupt.
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If all movies/shows are streaming, they can eliminate the ones they don't like and you'll never get them back. Just like a virtual currency. You could always start your own business, mailing out DVDs. And go bankrupt. So you’re in favor of a digital currency and doing away with physical cash.
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Netflix could never deliver Shogun Assassin, even though it was found on search.
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So you’re in favor of a digital currency and doing away with physical cash. Did I say that? Did I even reference digital currency in passing? Are you a corn farmer? You're really keen on straw men. Tell me something, who is "they?" This is about a business that's discontinuing an unprofitable business line because people have gone away from it in droves. Hell, the OP called it extinct." They" decided to cut their losses. If "they" could continue to make money mailing disks they'd do it. Anyone who thinks it's a good business model can take over where they left off, the field is wide open. They won't.
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If all movies/shows are streaming, they can eliminate the ones they don't like No they can't. Why not? Netflix chooses what content they carry. Unless you mean they cannot unilaterally eliminate the shows from history. That obviously, is correct.
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