It irritates me because they have a huge library of films that they likely will never put on the site. Why not keep sending them out? Was it really so unprofitable? I get that they want to funnel people to streaming, but…bastards. Anyway…
So what should I watch before it goes away? I have a huge list and I know I’ll never see them all.
Are there any TV shows in your queue? Especially from around the Y2K/Bush era?
There’s a weird set of television shows around that era which secured the music rights as we were in the DVD era but didn’t get streaming rights as we were moving out of the AOL dial up era but streaming video wasn’t realistic.
Nothing sucks more than a TV show or film with the original music stripped out because of rights issues.
Any recommendations?
I grabbed Killing Eve bc I kept hearing how good it was.
Weird. I thought they already closed the DVD-by-mail service but looking at the website, they’re not doing so until September 29.
Something you reminded me of, in 2009 I told them I lost Bill Mahers Religulous just because I wanted it and they charged me $21.46. Six years later, long after I dropped DVD’s I found a Red return envelope and decided since I hadn’t watched it any I sent it back and they credited me the $21.46.
You were over-fined and under-credited for that particular movie. 
Looking at you, WKRP in Cincinnati!
See, that’s what I thought the OP was asking – which DVDs should I order and then keep?
Anne of Green Gables with Megan Follows
Northern Exposure would be my recommendation in this department.
A friend of mine who is bemoaning the end of the service mentioned that in the last few months it’s been incredibly difficult to get much of anything they wanted - lots of stuff just gone or waitlisted so long that it might as well have been.
I can’t speak to titles, as I haven’t had the service in a decade, but both availability and the time limit are going to be issues.
I recently started re-watching this. I had only seen it weekly on its original airing 30 years ago. It was a really pleasant surprise that it begins, from the very first scene, already beautifully realized. It didn’t even take the whole of the first episode to feel like I had been watching it last week,
Homicide: Life on the Street is a great ‘90s TV show that isn’t streaming anywhere (also due to music rights issues) if you’ve never seen it. DVDs are pretty much the only way to see it.
I stopped the service a few years ago when I ran out of stuff I wanted to see that was actually there. My queue of maybe someday was pretty long, though.
The Times noted that they had 100,000 DVDs (at their height, I bet) and something like 6,000 shows on streaming. Which I believe since when I searched for something and they had it, the show was almost always on DVD and not streaming.
just checked the thread for his Zombie-age …
… but it is a new one …
(I had no idea NF still sends out shiny disks (in the USofA, that is - in the rest of the world, not so much)) …
In semi-related news: is Blockbuster coming back? I wouldn’t hate it, but if people aren’t going to the theater are they going to go out to rent a movie?
If you like jazz, I recommend Bird (1988, directed by Clint Eastwood). I have no idea about Netflix or the film’s availability in the US. I’ve just looked online, and it’s among Netflix’s DVD offerings.
I saw it once or twice back in the day and have fond memories of it.
I don’t think that’s true based on what NPR reported yesterday, although some people were apparently confused by an email Netflix sent their DVD subscribers, which gave them that impression. It sounds like Netflix isn’t even allowed to let customers keep their DVDs, as that would violate their licensing agreement with the filmmakers.