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1) our neighborhood doesn't have any typical internet providers in it currently, so I actually prefer dvd.netflix.com 2) as someone else stated, Netflix stream
by jsgo 8y ago
1) our neighborhood doesn't have any typical internet providers in it currently, so I actually prefer dvd.netflix.com
2) as someone else stated, Netflix streaming doesn't have everything whereas dvd.netflix.com fills in a lot of content gaps.
- samatman 8y agoThere are a few long tail effects and the sum of it makes sense, sure. The most salient is the difference between buying plastic and buying rights.
- jsgo 8y agoNot disagreeing with the value in the streaming offering, just saying why there is still a market for the rental-by-mail offering existing and why Netflix would still retain the offer (my guess is they probably rip the movies from the rentals and serve those in the streaming when licensing allows and rather than treat the Blurays/DVDs as just a cost of doing business, continue that operation).
- scarface74 8y agoNo streaming movie provider “rips” video from a DVD. Netflix gets a digital master and encodes it to various formats/bit rates across an AWS hosted server farm.