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by zorked·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Heh. I am so sick of all the movie apps and how hard it is to find which one has what, plus the fact that they all only have American superhero movies, that I started renting discs again.

Turns out there's someone in my country that rents movies via snail mail. I suspect it's just someone with a very large collection trying to recoup some of the money spent on it. It works really well.

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I love it -- the fellow countryman picked up, dusted off, and re-used the good business model that Netflix discarded so long ago. It's great.
Hmm, they didn't discard it so much as bury it alive[1], though?

1: https://dvd.netflix.com/

In my relatively recent experience they are letting it die just by not replacing content that they once had. That said, I am probably underestimating how difficult it is to find replacements.
FYI you can still get discs from Netflix if you want them; they just don't make it very easy to find. Go to dvd.com