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Netflix Hasn't Forgotten About Its 4.3 Million DVD Subscribers (qz.com)
Netflix hasn't forgotten about its DVD service, which millions of people still use. From a report on Quartz: The company is touting a new app that DVD customers can use to manage their Netflix queues, search for DVD and Blu-ray titles, and get movie recommendations. Those features for DVD subscribers vanished from the main Netflix app back in 2011, leaving subscribers to manage their accounts on DVD.com. The new app, called DVD Netflix, is currently only available on Apple's iOS in the US, which is the only country the DVD service is offered in. About 4.2 million people in the US still rent DVDs from Netflix.
A service to buy crap that you can download for free and it's only available to Apple users.
Technically, it's a service to rent crap that you can download for free. In addition to the difference in quality, there are more than a couple of reasons that people choose not to download - Many of us still pay for content.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.