List of Netflix Originals Available on DVD & Blu-ray

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For example, one of the big recurring costs for the business is buying new DVDs. The current Netflix employee describes how the company has recently cut costs by tweaking the algorithm that determines which customers receive new releases first. The eventual demise of its DVD-by-mail service has been inevitable since Hastings decided to spin it off from a then-nascent video streaming service in 2011.

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However, there are some shows and movies that are available exclusively through the DVD plan. Become a home entertainment expert with our handpicked tips, reviews and deals. "Our engineers have been feverishly working on repairing the problem all morning," Swasey said. "It was an unanticipated, unplanned outage, and we apologize to our customers." One of the differences between the two outages is that Netflix's logistics and shipping systems were not affected in July. With the more recent glitch, Netflix continued to ship DVDs but that changed sometime Monday afternoon.

As for Scalise, he still loves the service, even though he says that he's noticed the selection of old or more obscure movies degrading -- presumably because the company is less likely to replace DVDs that break. Even so, Netflix still has more options than any other service he's found. "I still tend to think of DVDs as the core service and streaming as an add-on, even though I know that's not what it is to most people," he tells CNBC. "I still watch far more content on DVD than I do streaming." The disc arrived at Hastings' home unblemished, prompting the duo in 1998 to launch a DVD-by-mail rental website that they always knew would be supplanted by even more convenient technology. So the reason why some Netflix Originals come to physical media is often that Netflix doesn’t own the core rights to some of its shows and movies.

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"My whole two years there I didn't interact with them at all," says another former Netflix employee who left last summer after two years at the company. "No joint all-hands, no real interaction via email, nothing." But even as the service sheds members, Netflix has no motivation to formally phase out the DVD business. After all, it still pumps out profit — $62.7 million last quarter — which the company can inject into its fast-growing streaming business.

On that day, the company's shares fell 7 percent as the market punished Netflix for a drop in customers. Although DVD.com employees may have to figuratively stare the death of their company in the face on a regular basis, they still want to make sure that existing customers are happy. Netflix confirmed that there are only 17 distribution centers left across the United States, with recent closures in Arkansas, Hawaii and New Mexico. While the streaming business continues to swell, DVD.com is basically just trying to stay afloat as long as the business remains tenable. As that same employee describes it, the experience of working on the DVD side during these twilight years is "quite exciting, interesting, and a little sad altogether."

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Once you send the disc back, the next DVD in your queue will be shipped to you. To start a free trial for Netflix's DVD service, select which plan you're interested in, Standard or Premier, and then select "Get Started" at the bottom. If you're interested, be sure to check the box next to, "Yes, I want to include Blu-ray."

Only time will tell if this is Netflix's first move toward totally phasing out DVDs, but that would probably concern you even more if you didn't have another episode of "Breaking Bad" to watch in 15 seconds. "Netflix's DVD business was part and parcel of who Netflix was and still is," he said. Knowing the end is in sight, Randolph said he will lament the death of the DVD service he brought to life while taking comfort its legacy will survive. "When you open your mailbox, it's still something you actually want instead of just bills," said Konkle, a resident of Savannah, Georgia, who has been subscribing to Netflix's DVD-by-mail service since 2005.

I have a long list of movies that I would like to see so I check my list at least once a week. You (Season 1 only – show owned and distributed by Warner Brothers Television – DVD listed from Warner Archive – Netflix acquired the streaming rights from season 2 onwards). You can start a DVD plan without a Netflix streaming plan by heading to dvd.netflix.com and signing up for one of the two available plans. Online video-rental service suffers malfunction that paralyzes Web site, logistics and delivery.

That business, DVD.com, has its own website, management team, benefits package and headquarters located near the main Netflix headquarters in the Silicon Valley town of Los Gatos, California. If you visit the office of each business "you won't believe it's same company," one current employee tells CNBC. "When we started going through all the movies we wanted to see, we realized it was cheaper than paying $5 per movie on some streaming services," Neumann said. "Plus we have found a lot of old horror movies, and that genre is not really big on streaming." When Netflix first launched in the late 1990s, it exclusively shipped DVDs to homes around the United States.

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The "Add DVD Plan" option will be listed underneath your current plan. Both plans come with a one month free trial, and you can also add Blu-rays for a few dollars more each month. This time, the glitch came as Netflix's customer numbers are on the rise and its stock is soaring. Stock analysts upgraded Netflix on Monday, and the company closed trading at $38.18, up 5 percent. Over the past six months, the company's shares have doubled in value. Sign Up NowGet this delivered to your inbox, and more info about our products and services.

Get sneak previews of special offers & upcoming events delivered to your inbox. If I return a DVD, say, on a Tuesday, I will probably have my next movie on my list arrive by Thursday. Only members using a shared or public computer need to end each visit to DVD Netflix by using the Sign Out link. Depending on where you live, youmay be charged taxesin addition to your subscription price.

And it will echo the downfall of the thousands of Blockbuster video rental stores that closed because they couldn't counter the threat posed by Netflix's DVD-by-mail alternative. "They're just trying to slow the bleeding and allow it to die off naturally," explains a former employee who left the company after 8½ years last fall. This person worked at one of the company's distribution hubs in the Midwest and says that he left his job because he'd watched several hubs close in the last year and didn't see any career growth in his future. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized by the company to discuss details of his time there.