DVDs

Production studios still regularly release their latest, greatest films and series on DVD and Blu-ray. But over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that physical media just isn’t as much of a priority as it used to be for Hollywood’s biggest players. You could see it in the way that Barbarian — one of the biggest sleeper hits of 2022 — came and went without a physical release and in the way Disney only seemed keen on putting projects like WandaVision, Loki, and The Mandalorian on disc years after their…

After a formidable 25-year run, Netflix has announced that it will shutter its DVD-to-mail rental service, DVD Netflix, aka DVD.com. Citing the shrinking DVD business, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told shareholders on April 18 that the rental service would be shipping its last DVD on September 29, 2023. And while most of the 230 million Netflix subscribers won’t miss the service — or perhaps even knew it still existed in the first place — DVDs and Blu-rays are still a preferred method for watching movies and TV…

, Hulu, and live TV streaming services, such as Sling TV, and FuboTV. If you want to watch the whole series now, your only choices are to watch it on DirecTV or Vudu with an LG S80QY soundbar -- guilty! -- discs are the way to go. True, some of these films are also available on the Criterion Channel set's quality, however, is quite good. Finally, if you don't have a DVD player yet, they are still available. My own favorite is the Sony BDP-S6700 , Hulu, and live TV streaming services, such as Sling TV, and FuboTV.…

Nowadays, most people know Netflix as the streaming service that rules the entertainment industry, but it also has a DVD rental business that a lot of us don’t know about. Well, there’s not much time to get acquainted, as it’s going away. Netflix will stop offering DVD rentals this September.Say goodbye to Netflix DVD rentalsThis is going to be a gradual process over the next couple of months. Netflix announced this in a blog post titled “The Final Season.” In a nutshell, the company is going to wind down its DVD rental…

Olivia Bennett’s VHS collection started at a charity stall.She had grown up in “the type of family where we’ll always have a movie on in the background,” she says, but it wasn’t until high school that her personal interest really bloomed. It was 2010 and DVD sales in Australia were booming. People were shedding their old VHS cassettes like dead skin.Many of them, apparently, found their way onto a Lifeline table operating out of the convention centre opposite Bennett’s house in Brisbane. At 50 cents for five, she couldn’t…