Netflix Allowing Disc Subs to Keep Final Movie Rentals, Up Rental Queues (1 Viewer)

[Guardyan]

“We are not charging for any unreturned discs after 9/29. Please enjoy your final shipments for as long as you like!,” DVD.com wrote on its social media page.

Netflix is set to shutter its legacy by-mail DVD, Blu-ray Disc movie rental business on Sept. 29. DVD.com (Netflix’s disc rental subsidiary) has notified its more than 1 million remaining subscribers that they can keep their movie rentals (after Sept. 29), and until then, up their rental queues to 10 or more titles before the service shuts down.

Full article here.

We discussed the shutdown here.

 

[JohnRice]

Interesting way to liquidate inventory.

 

[Baenwort]

How exactly does that upping the que work? Mine only shows a Max of 8 disc at a time?

 

[B-ROLL]

How exactly does that upping the que work? Mine only shows a Max of 8 disc at a time?

According to NPR and other broadcast news sources, Netflix will send DVD subscribers 10 DVDs "based on their prior interests."

They also said that customers still had to return the discs based upon licensing agreements with "the studios."

I suppose not charging for un-returned discs might be a way around that.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

How exactly does that upping the que work? Mine only shows a Max of 8 disc at a time?

??? I have like 50 discs in my queue.

 

[PODER]

Netflix says "T'ain't so, McGee!" Apparently you have to enter a lottery, and the lucky winners will get their top ten. This according to a call to Netflix.

 

[WillG]

I figured they‘d just let you keep the discs you have. Why bother asking for them back when they’re just going to end up in a landfill somewhere. Currently at home I have top gun maverick and The Fablemans

 

[Baenwort]

??? I have like 50 discs in my queue.

Not the pending que but the one referenced by this line in the OP:

"up their rental queues to 10 or more titles before the service shuts down"

Which I took to mean a way to check out more than the 8 discs at a time limit.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Not the pending que but the one referenced by this line in the OP:

"up their rental queues to 10 or more titles before the service shuts down"

Which I took to mean a way to check out more than the 8 discs at a time limit.

Oh.

No, I think it just means you should have at least 10 titles in your queue when they shut down, not that you should already have out 10 discs.

 

[Bartman]

Now I have to try & remember which DVDs were NOT scratched to hell & put them at the top of my queues!

 

[jbirdp]

Has anyone received their 10 free discs? Not me.

 

[Bartman]

Has anyone received their 10 free discs? Not me.

Not me, either? Has there been anything in the news about this?

 

[DeanR]

I had the 3 discs out at a time plan and they shipped out the 3 movies at the top of my queue of 12 to keep on the 29th of September. No free 10 discs here.

 

[Baenwort]

I didn't get either the number I subscribed to or 10 free discs. Yet anyway.