[rtkwe]

I'm not particularly shocked dedicated player sales are down given how ubiquitous DVD players are in basically everything (laptops, desktops and game consoles) and how long they last. Also that doesn't really answer how that trend was spooling out to the mail order rental business over the recent past, people have been using streaming a lot for ages but the business still made sense to keep going before so what in the near term finally made the lines cross?

[hhh]

I haven't seen a DVD drive in a computer I have bought in almost 10 years.

I only see one today in the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and from the recent Xbox leak it looks like that's going away.

[alephnerd]

Off the top of my head, the costs of logistics has skyrocketed since COVID due to staffing shortages and Teamster Union actions/strikes.

[rtkwe]

Have costs actually increased for the kind of small packages Netflix is sending disks in? The rate for large shipments by the container load have fallen back to around their pre pandemic levels from what I'm seeing in a quick search. That's not really relevant to the kind of shipping costs Netflix would be seeing for it's disk service though but I'm not really finding a chart tracking that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1250636/global-container...