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  2. List of streaming media services - Wikipedia

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    Service Parent Launch Country of origin Sub­scribers Content Areas served Ref. Netflix: Netflix, Inc. January 16, 2007 [a] United States 301.6 million [1]: Netflix Originals, Studio Ghibli, [b] Studio 100, WildBrain, Wow Unlimited Media, Mattel, Hasbro, Lionsgate Studios, Bento Box Entertainment, MarVista Entertainment, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, STX Entertainment, Skydance ...

  3. Streaming movies on Netflix a frugal alternative to cable TV

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    My household recently got a free disc from Netflix to instantly watch movies on our Nintendo Wii console, allowing us to stream movies onto our TV instead of waiting for a DVD to arrive in the mail.

  4. DVD-by-mail - Wikipedia

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    DVD-by-mail is a business model in which customers rent DVDs and similar discs containing films, television shows, video games and the like, ordering online for delivery to the customer by mail. Generally, all interaction between the renter and the rental company takes place through the company's website , using an e-commerce model.

  5. Criticism of Netflix - Wikipedia

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    Netflix is a subscription streaming service owned by the American company Netflix, Inc. Launched on August 29, 1997, it initially offered DVD rental and sale by mail, but the sales were eliminated within a year to focus on the DVD rental business. In 2007, the company began transitioning to its current subscription streaming model.

  6. As Netflix winds down its DVD service, diehards mourn: 'An ...

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    Currently at the top of the list is the 1956 Ingmar Bergman film The Magician, part of a vast library from the Criterion Collection that offers classics on DVD packaged with essays and other ...

  7. Netflix to bring down the curtain on its DVD-by-mail service

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    The DVD service, which still delivers films and TV shows in the red-and-white envelopes that once served as Netflix's emblem, plans to mail its final discs on Sept. 29.

  8. Flexplay - Wikipedia

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    Flexplay is a trademark for a discontinued DVD-compatible optical video disc format with a time-limited (usually 48-hour) playback.They are often described as "self-destructing", although the disc merely turns black or dark red and does not physically disintegrate.

  9. Netflix's DVD-by-mail service bows out as its red-and-white ...

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    The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix's once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs came up with a concept that obliterated Blockbuster video ...