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Staten Island official demands Netflix restore DVD service

Rob Beschizza
Aug 31, 2025
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Before it became the top TV streaming service, Netflix built its empire by mailing movies on-demand to viewers' homes, obliterating the rental video business and producing an estimated 5 billion DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. It finally shut down that service in 2023, after 25 years in operation¹, but some were sad to see i…

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