A few instances of this with friends over was enough for me to make the final transition. This was good since the consumer DVD-Rs didn't last that long - the ink would degrade, ususally towards the center of the disk, which would result in a movie sometimes freezing in the last 15-minutes or so. I think they settled a class-action lawsuit over this, and I was rewarded a free month.Īfter a few years, when I had a couple shoeboxes of DVDs, hard drives started getting large enough that I could just store all the movies on an external drive.

I think I told them I had to defrag the hard drive.Īt some point, towards the end of each month, Netflix started delaying how quickly DVDs would be sent out if you used this many. This resulted in the fan on my family's shared desktop going haywire, prompting many inquries from my parents. Since many DVDs were dual-layered but consumer DVD-Rs were single-layered, I had to transcode the video to fit on the smaller DVD. I could get about 20-25 DVDs a month on the 3-DVD plan this way. In high school, I would get a disk, immediately burn a copy, and return it the same day. I have fond memories of the Netflix DVD service.

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