Netflix will allow you to preserve your rental DVDs endlessly after September 29

Within the land earlier than streaming, there was a time when getting a Netflix DVD within the mail felt magical. These instances have largely handed, and shortly the service behind it’ll finish, as we lined in April. However on Monday, Netflix introduced that prospects can preserve any remaining DVDs they’ve after September 29 as soon as the service shuts down. Moreover, subscribers can doubtlessly stand up to 10 discs totally free because the service clears out its stock.

Nowadays, Netflix handles its DVD rental service by a subsidiary referred to as DVD.com. The DVD amnesty announcement got here via DVD.com’s X account on Monday, relayed to us by The Verge.

In 1997, Netflix launched as a pay-per-rental service, but it surely transitioned to the now-famous subscription queue system in 1999, the place prospects make an inventory of DVDs they’d prefer to obtain, and they’d get shipped out so as as they turned obtainable. As we famous in April, this enterprise mannequin partially led to the collapse of video rental chains. Whereas as soon as common, the world largely moved on to streaming video providers, and in April of this 12 months, Netflix introduced that it could discontinue its DVD rental service completely.

For now, DVD.com remains to be in operation, and it continues the rental queue custom, however according to its FAQ, the service will ship out its final disc on September 29, 2023. After the ultimate day, it says that prospects is not going to be charged for any unreturned discs and provides, “Please take pleasure in them for so long as you want! If you happen to do select to return the disc, we are going to proceed to simply accept returns till October twenty seventh, 2023.”

As well as, Netflix additionally introduced that subscribers can enter for a chance to stand up to 10 additional DVDs listed of their rental queue mailed to them totally free on the ultimate day of service. With seemingly hundreds of thousands of discs available, we suppose that Netflix’s discs must go someplace.

If you happen to aren’t a subscriber and need to get in on a few of the “keepsies” red-envelope DVD motion, Netflix says you may have till 11:59 pm Pacific Time on August 28 to join a DVD plan. Simply keep in mind that the entire thing shuts down for good in September.