My Tech Update - Mobile phones have completely integrated into and became the indispensible part of our daily life. We use it to keep in touch with our families and friends, apply it to surf on internet to get the latest news, and utilize it to watch interesting videos, teleplay, listen music, etc. Depending on the rapid development of technology, everything is possible. And if you have lots of beloved DVD movie discs, you can also appreciate it on mobile phones to spend spare time when you are far away from home, e.g. during commute, on a trip, etc.
The Series X comes with a disc drive, but can it play DVDs?
Netflix, your favorite reason to stay home and ignore whatever shred of a social life you purport to have, isn’t just a streaming network of original programming and a reminder of how terrible Friends was. It’s also still a DVD rental service. A DVD rental service that is profitable as hell for Netflix. To the tune of $56 million in profit on just $99 million in revenue.
It's not that shocking. There's still plenty of people with terrible internet speeds.
Redbox not thriving is sort of a surprisie in certain areas. Some of my friends still have dial up speed where they live
It's somehow thriving because if I want to watch damn near any movie I want, I can get it via DVD or Blu-ray and not have to hunt around to see if it's streaming somewhere or have to pay $4-5 to rent a single movie.
Ive got Netflix and Prime Video and tbh i still buy and rent a lot of blurays. Even a 3 or 4 GB torrent doesnt look or sound anything close to a bluray and im especially pretty obsessed with building my 4k collection.
I have a rental store down the street though...
I remember Netflix having many more recent movies available on DVD than for streaming. Unless they've managed since then to license for streaming all the movies people want to watch, I understand why DVDs are still flying through the postal system.
You can finally kiss your dusty collection of DVDs goodbye with Vudu's smartphone app. Finally.
