End of an Era: Netflix Ending Disc Rentals

[David Vaughn]

Will do.  I'm looking forward to getting 4K versions, even though plain old Blu-rays are looking pretty good these days.

And, as a fluke, I just checked out our library system, and they have a fair number of discs as well, but no 4K copies.

In fact they have Beau Is Afraid, which neither Netflix nor GameFly carry.

We're going to give that a try as well, since we're already paying for it.

Scott

I've donated hundreds of discs to our local library over the years, although the majority of them are crappy "watch once and forget" movies. I remember back in the 2004-2008 era when every studio would send you EVERYTHING they released on home video. There wasn't enough time in a given week to watch them all unless you didn't have a day job. It was crazy. Then when you had HD DVD and Blu-ray, you'd get copies of both formats from Universal and Paramount! I still have a HD DVD disc or two in a box somewhere, but no player to play them on

[SRW1000]

I've donated hundreds of discs to our local library over the years, although the majority of them are crappy "watch once and forget" movies. I remember back in the 2004-2008 era when every studio would send you EVERYTHING they released on home video. There wasn't enough time in a given week to watch them all unless you didn't have a day job. It was crazy. Then when you had HD DVD and Blu-ray, you'd get copies of both formats from Universal and Paramount! I still have a HD DVD disc or two in a box somewhere, but no player to play them on

That is a great place to take unwanted movies.  

I still have all my HD DVDs, and two players to play them on.  I've actually watched some of them in the past year.  Some people have reported problems with their old discs, but I haven't seen a problem yet.  

It does make the decision to upgrade to 4K easier for some titles, though.

[bmoney]

Hd dvds woah. They lost the format war. Lol like beta max

[SRW1000]

Hd dvds woah. They lost the format war. Lol like beta max

Yeah, they're commiserating with my laserdiscs.  

[bmoney]

Yeah, they're commiserating with my laserdiscs. 

Now laser discs were cool. 

[bmoney]

Remember divx? The circuit city rental disc thing?

[SRW1000]

Remember divx? The circuit city rental disc thing?

Yeah, that is one that I completely skipped.  

[David Vaughn]

Yeah, that is one that I completely skipped. 

Like a lot of people...no wonder Circuit City went out of business

[bmoney]

You needed to buy a player and pay for the discs. Smh. Whoever green lighted that was a moron lol

[bmoney]

I always preferred Best Buy over circuit city 

[David Vaughn]

You needed to buy a player and pay for the discs. Smh. Whoever green lighted that was a moron lol

Probably the same person who went on to do marketing at Bud Light

[Paul Heroy]

Remember divx? The circuit city rental disc thing?

I have a friend at my job who worked as a developer on it. To this day he blames the media for its failure. SMH. 

[bmoney]

I have a friend at my job who worked as a developer on it. To this day he blames the media for its failure. SMH.

Hahah taking it to the grave

[bmoney]

I have a friend at my job who worked as a developer on it. To this day he blames the media for its failure. SMH.

Hahah taking it to the grave

[David Vaughn]

Hahah taking it to the grave

You can say that again....oh wait, you did!