{"id":4373,"date":"2023-11-05T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/netflixs-shuttered-dvd-service-by-the-numbers\/05\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-05T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:34:11","slug":"netflixs-shuttered-dvd-service-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/netflixs-shuttered-dvd-service-by-the-numbers\/05\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s Shuttered DVD Service by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2020 and 2021, my subscription took on a new role: helping to keep me from going stir crazy during the most cloistered months of pandemic lockdown. The DVD service was particularly handy when I decided to embark on a career-spanning marathon of all Martin Scorsese\u2019s movies. Starting with \u201cWho\u2019s That Knocking at My Door,\u201d I worked my way through the highs (\u201cGoodfellas,\u201d sure, but I ride for \u201cThe Age of Innocence\u201d) and the lows (\u201cBoxcar Bertha\u201d \u2014 not without its charms).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the DVD operation wound down and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/23\/business\/media\/netflix-dvds.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sent its final discs in September<\/a>, I asked Netflix for some statistics to better understand how viewers used it over its 25-year run, and whether the numbers \u2014 distilled from 5.2 billion discs shipped since 1998 \u2014 could illuminate my own experience.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Most popular film disc in THE COUNTRY in 2022-23<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-r4vjpx eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-20c19361\">\u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-1ot54yz e1wiw3jv0\">Washington, D.C., was the exception, with \u2018T\u00e1r.\u2019<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What I found sometimes tracked with my own viewing and sometimes didn\u2019t. The most rented movie overall was \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d (never saw it) and the most rented TV show \u201cDexter\u201d (a video store rental for me in 2010). Other times, the data was just bizarre: During the final year of the service, the Tom Cruise box-office juggernaut \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d was the No. 1 movie rental everywhere but in Washington, D.C., where the winner was, inexplicably, \u201cT\u00e1r,\u201d the high-minded classical music drama with Cate Blanchett. (I watched both. Seeing Cruise\u2019s Maverick take a younger pilot under his wing in \u201cTop Gun,\u201d I flashed on a hotshot Cruise being mentored by Paul Newman in Scorsese\u2019s \u201cThe Color of Money,\u201d marathon movie No. 10.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The \u201cT\u00e1r\u201d outlier speaks to one of the beautiful aspects of the Netflix DVD. You weren\u2019t bombarded with what was popular or trending \u2014 or what Netflix wanted to be popular or trending. You followed your own curiosity.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Most Rented Actor<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-r4vjpx eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-65e2efc3\">Morgan Freeman<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-1ot54yz e1wiw3jv0\">Followed by Matt Damon and Liam Neeson.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By default, my Scorsese marathon probably makes his longtime collaborator Robert De Niro the actor whose films I rented the most. (<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/martin-scorsese-the-king-of-comedy-remembers-flop-of-the-year\/#:~:text=The%20director's%20daughter%20quizzed%20him,tangent%20about%20the%20movie's%20reception\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t sleep on<\/a> De Niro\u2019s deliciously unhinged performance in \u201cThe King of Comedy.\u201d) For all Netflix DVD users, though, De Niro rests at a healthy but comparatively modest fifth place.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Most RENTED Actress<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-r4vjpx eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-24b12537\">Cate Blanchett<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-1ot54yz e1wiw3jv0\">44.2 million discs rented. Meryl Streep was second, with 42.4 million.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And how about <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">my<\/em> most rented actress? At first I thought Scorsese didn\u2019t have enough recurring actresses to come up with a name (that\u2019s on him!), but then I remembered that his very charming mother, Catherine, made brief appearances in many of his movies before her death in 1997. So she is probably my most rented actress.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Most Rented Director<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-r4vjpx eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-493ae12d\">Clint Eastwood<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-1ot54yz e1wiw3jv0\">His most popular film: \u2018Gran Torino\u2019 (2008).<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the director category, Eastwood was followed by Steven Spielberg. And here, Catherine Scorsese has something to brag about: her son Marty was the third most rented filmmaker. (Of Scorsese\u2019s films, \u201cThe Departed\u201d was the most rented. It was also the most popular movie featuring either Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg.)<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Disc Titles Available at Netflix\u2019s Peak<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-r4vjpx eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-79061636\">100,000-plus<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">U.S. Netflix Streaming Titles according to outside estimates<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-r4vjpx eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3fd1dcc9\">6,000-7,000<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The figures here hint at a key aspect of Netflix\u2019s DVD service: Unlike those of its streaming counterparts (present-day Netflix, as well as Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+ and the like), the Netflix library wasn\u2019t limited to the movies and TV shows it had the rights to. (Netflix declined to specify how many productions it was currently streaming beyond saying that the figure was in the thousands.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In this way, the DVD service acted more as an overstuffed old-school video store. You know the type: dingy lighting, out-of-print foreign films jammed behind a cardboard cutout of Catwoman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/03\/movies\/netflix-dvds-scorsese.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020 and 2021, my subscription took on a new role: helping to keep me from going stir crazy during the most<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/netflixs-shuttered-dvd-service-by-the-numbers\/05\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}