# What movies should I grab before Netflix stops sending DVDs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, movies\ **Created:** [August 16, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679 "2023-08-16T22:03:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/1 "2023-08-16T22:03:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/2 "2023-08-16T22:09:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/3 "2023-08-16T22:14:31Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Are there any TV shows in your queue? Especially from around the Y2K/Bush era? Any recommendations? I grabbed Killing Eve bc I kept hearing how good it was. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/4 "2023-08-16T22:26:02Z")
Weird. I thought they already closed the DVD-by-mail service but looking at the website, they’re not doing so until September 29. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/5 "2023-08-16T22:39:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/6 "2023-08-16T22:48:41Z")
You were over-fined and under-credited for that particular movie. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/7 "2023-08-16T23:01:04Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Nothing sucks more than a TV show or film with the original music stripped out because of rights issues. Looking at you, WKRP in Cincinnati! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/8 "2023-08-17T00:06:22Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > 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. See, that’s what I thought the OP was asking – which DVDs should I order _and then keep_? ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/9 "2023-08-17T00:38:36Z")
Anne of Green Gables with Megan Follows ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/10 "2023-08-17T00:45:51Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@dalej42](#): > > > > Are there any TV shows in your queue? Especially from around the Y2K/Bush era? > > Any recommendations? Northern Exposure would be my recommendation in this department. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/11 "2023-08-17T01:56:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/12 "2023-08-17T03:57:48Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Northern Exposure would be my recommendation in this department. 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, ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/13 "2023-08-17T04:32:07Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@dalej42](#): > > > > Are there any TV shows in your queue? Especially from around the Y2K/Bush era? > > Any recommendations? > > I grabbed Killing Eve bc I kept hearing how good it was. _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. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/14 "2023-08-17T05:25:25Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > 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 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. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/15 "2023-08-19T01:47:56Z")
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)) … ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/16 "2023-08-19T02:48:14Z")
In semi-related news: [is Blockbuster coming back?](https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/blockbuster-reactivates-website-bend-oregon/103-96722f0a-ead8-4b79-accb-db1a925c14a1#) I wouldn’t hate it, but if people aren’t going to the theater are they going to go out to rent a movie? ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/17 "2023-08-19T15:13:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/18 "2023-08-22T18:46:54Z")
> **[Netflix DVD Is Letting Subscribers Keep Their Final Shipment of DVDs](https://gizmodo.com/netflix-dvd-subscribers-keep-final-shipment-red-1850762229)** > > Netflix DVD subscribers won't be charged to keep the final shipment of DVDs after the mail service ends. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-should-i-grab-before-netflix-stops-sending-dvds/988679/19 "2023-08-23T01:12:16Z")
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. > **[Netflix extra DVD offer ahead of service shutdown confuses some customers](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/19/1194884346/netflix-extra-dvd-offer-shutdown-confuses-customers)** > > Fans of the streamer's 25-year-old hard-copy delivery service are welcoming the promotion ahead of its shutdown at the end of September. But the terms are vague.