No more red envelopes: Netflix ejects DVD service
Los Angeles (AFP) - After shipping out more than five billion DVDs in its trademark red envelopes, Netflix has finally called time on the movies-by-mail subscription service that launched the Hollywood streaming colossus. The announcement, made in a letter to shareholders before this week's earnings call, was greeted with bafflement by some broadband binge-watchers who did not know Netflix's DVD business was still running -- or that it existed in the first place. But it also prompted nostalgic reflections among many of the tens of millions of US customers who had subscribed over the past quart...