However, you can still rent DVDs (and Blu-rays) using Netflix. The only catch is that it's a separate subscription and will cost you extra on top of your pre-existing Netflix streaming plan ...

Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service, ending an era that began 25 years ago when delivering discs through ...

In 1998, an upstart company decided to offer a way for people to rent DVD ... about Netflix's disc rental business. In its lifetime, it shipped over 5.2 billion discs in the mail.

The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix’s once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs came up with a concept that obliterated Blockbuster ...

Netflix has reported a surge of subscribers to 117m in 2017, which it's put down to interest in its original content. The company has come a long way since its start as an online DVD rental ...

Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix 1998: Netflix launches a DVD-by-mail rental service. That same year, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos offers to buy the company. Charles Krupa/AP In his book ...

Despite the odds and the obstacles, we persevered to create Netflix, which has revolutionized the movie rental industry ... hold and protect the DVD. It had to meet stringent Post Office criteria so ...

Netflix has reported a surge of subscribers to 117m in 2017, which it's put down to interest in its original content. The company has come a long way since its start as an online DVD rental ...