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If, like me, you have a bunch of DVDs on your shelf, some recent reports may have you worrying if any of your collection has, in fact, rotted. Many physical media enthusiasts may be familiar with DVD ...
Millions of us also hang on to cassettes, film cameras, and other old physical media, CR's survey showsDespite a dizzying ...
DVDs might be a thing of the past, but if you're someone who kept your collection, you'll want to check if they've fallen victim to disc rot -- especially if they are titles distributed by Warner ...
Sony says DVDs have a life expectancy of 30 to 100 years if cared for properly, but for some reason WB movies sold during that 3-year period are more vulnerable to disc rot, or DVD rot.
Renting DVDs through the mail became so popular that Netflix once ranked as the U.S. Postal Service's fifth largest customer while mailing millions of discs each week from nearly 60 U.S ...
DVDs may be out of style but their prices have surged. The average price for video discs and other media rose 29% in a year in April. Some DVDs and Blu-rays are selling for big bucks, sending ...
Netflix will send 10 extra DVDs to customers, and now says you can keep them. The company’s DVD-by-mail business is set to wrap up this fall with a promotion that nets customers extra movies.
Selling Your Collection. Selling used DVDs is similar to selling used books. Many of the same retailers, like Amazon (on its Movies & TV Trade-In page) and eBay (at Half.com) will buy back your ...
Video King is building an empire on DVDs, Trowell said. “Definitely, we have to. It’s 50 percent of our business now,” Trowell said. “We were doing small numbers of DVDs two years ago.
In 1997, Netflix launched as a pay-per-rental service, but it transitioned to the now-famous subscription queue system in 1999, where customers make a list of DVDs they'd like to receive, and they ...