Amazon stopping their DVD rental service

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,090 Community Admin
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    HogMan wrote: »
    Therein lies the answer, I suspect DVDs will soon go the way of VHS and stop being manufactured and quite possibly Blu Ray too.

    I remember when they said that about vinyl and CD's :rotfl:
  • bap98189
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    heartbreak_star wrote: »
    I'll never understand not switching to streaming...tis so convenient!

    1. Amazon Prime & Netflix don't have half the films I want to watch. Lovefilm by post did. I suspect there is a cost to uploading less popular movies to streaming services which is why only popular titles are made available.

    2. It's rather hard to stream movies when your internet connection only reaches 0.5Mb/s (on a good day).
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
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    edited 15 August 2017 at 2:59PM
    john22 wrote: »
    Can you give a link as to where amazon said it was costing too much to run?

    They haven't been disingenuous at all, this is the statement on their website...

    We have very much enjoyed delivering the LOVEFiLM By Post service to our customers. However, over the last few years we’ve seen a decreasing demand for Blu-ray and DVD rental as customers increasingly move to streaming. Due to this, we will be closing the LOVEFiLM By Post service on 31st October 2017.

    It's a simple business decision the service does not generate them enough money to make it worthwhile so shut it down.
    equals service costing too much to run
    I thought that was obvious.

    Either way, my original point stands.
  • System
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    neilmcl wrote: »
    I thought that was obvious.

    Either way, my original point stands.

    Then what they said was not disingenuous :rotfl:
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