I recently switched to the DVD plan. I watched Fifty Shades of Grey on Amazon Prime and wanted to watch the 2 sequels, but Amazon wanted $15 each. Since I mainly want to watch movies, it's a lot easier to find something to watch on the DVD plan rather than streaming, which is focused more on TV shows with episodes.

I need to get back to tending my DVD collection. When Netflix axes their DVD service, I'll use my own private collection for entertainment.

Good. It's more environmentally friendly streaming. Imagine 220 million Netflix subscribers ordering 5 DVDs/month. That's 1.1 billion DVDs that need to be mailed twice every month.

Datacenters require electricity, cooling and fire suppression.

Postal and courier trucks are likely making regular home deliveries anyway.

Diversity of media = diversity of thought.

The energy cost to stream an 800mb movie is magnitudes less than a truck driving 30ft to the house next door to deliver the DVD. Now multiply by 1.1 billion each month.

The truck is likely already going to the house for non-DVD deliveries.

> now represents significantly less than 1% of the company’s overall revenue -although DVD.com apparently does still turn a profit

I didn't realise it was still running (not being in the USA) but if it makes a profit...

that's a shame. I always meant to cancel my DVD plan, but I kept finding and queuing titles I couldn't find anywhere else (legitimately or otherwise). I haven't looked at what's on offer in a while, but I'm guessing once my queue is empty there may not be anything available worth adding and I'll finally end the DVD plan (which I guess is their goal).