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Netflix Makes a Major Announcement that Signals the End of an Era · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Long before Netflix became the streaming juggernaut that it is today,
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  Speaker 2: it was a brilliant mail service company. Remember that the
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  Speaker 2: chip movie DVDs to subscribers. You might remember the joy
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  Speaker 2: of finding one of those skinny red envelopes in your mailbox.
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  Speaker 2: What most don't know is that Netflix still offered that
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  Speaker 2: same service until now. Netflix is announced their officially ending
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  Speaker 2: their DVD mail service, which was actually also how they
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  Speaker 2: delivered the first ever batch of original content they produced.
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  Speaker 2: CEO Ted Sarando says in a blog post, after an
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  Speaker 2: incredible twenty five year run, we've made the difficult decision
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  Speaker 2: to wind down DVDs at the end of September. We
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  Speaker 2: feel so privileged to have been able to share movie
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  Speaker 2: nights with our DVD members for so long. To everyone
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  Speaker 2: who ever added a DVD to their queue or waited
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  Speaker 2: by the mailbox for red envelope to arrive, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: The last day to ordering Netflix DVD is September twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.