Netflix Is Mailing Its Last DVD. The Die-Hards Are in Mourning.

Subscribers say the DVD business has a bigger catalog of older films; ‘streaming looks like garbage’

Photo: Michelle Walker

Thomas Johnson’s daughter texted him Tuesday afternoon with difficult news: Netflix Inc. planned to get rid of its DVD-by-mail business later this year.

“I went, ‘Noooo,’” said Mr. Johnson, a 66-year-old retiree in St. Charles, Mo., who has received Netflix’s red-and-white DVD envelopes in his mailbox for more than a decade.

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