Tag: shipping
Seagate to pay $300M penalty over shipping of more than 7M hard drives to Huawei
After 25 years, Netflix will finally stop shipping DVDs to people
Hello, youth. Did you know that Netflix still mails physical DVDs to people? Well, they do! But soon, they won’t.
For those of us who remember this practice (which Netflix did for years before streaming was a thing), it’s time to say goodbye. CEO Ted Sarandos wrote in a company blog post on Tuesday that Netflix will ship out its final DVDs on Sept. 29. The move comes after a quarter century of Netflix sending discs to people.
Sarandos talked a bit about how important DVDs are to Netflix’s history in the blog post:
Those iconic red envelopes changed the way people watched shows and movies at home — and they paved the way for the shift to streaming. From the beginning, our members loved the choice and control that direct-to-consumer entertainment offered: the wide variety of the titles and the ability to binge watch entire series. DVDs also led to our first foray into original programming — with Red Envelope Entertainment titles including Sherrybaby and Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion.
Netflix started out in 1998 as a mail-order alternative to video rental stores like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and Family Video. Instead of physically traveling to a store and hoping they had whatever you wanted to watch in stock, you’d request something and Netflix would send it to you.
Some 5.2 billion (according to a graphic in Netflix’s blog post) shipments later, it’s coming to an end. Streaming has obviously become ubiquitous in the last decade and physical media has become the domain of purists. That said, there are still lots of movies that are only available on DVD and can’t be easily streamed, so this is sort of a bummer in that respect.
You might want to hold onto that red Netflix envelope. It could become a collector’s item someday.
Maritime shipping company Himalaya upsizes proposed IPO to $45M
Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release
If the past few years, and even the past week, has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. […]
Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release by Matthew Panzarino originally published on TechCrunch
The rally might not be over for surging oil shipping stocks – Barron’s
Korea’s Portlogics makes international shipping easier for merchants with its software tool
Most merchants in South Korea keep track of their international shipping logistics via email until their cargo safely gets to its destination. This includes all the administrative processes, from shippers to importers, and covers logistics, customs, charges and transportation booking. Portlogics, a South Korean digital freight forwarder that offers a robotic process automation-based forwarding management […]
Korea’s Portlogics makes international shipping easier for merchants with its software tool by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Ardmore Shipping surges to 52-week high after Q4 beat, dividend declaration
From shipping container to table: Adapt brings urban mushroom farms to US
Canadian vertical farming startup Adapt AgTech is partnering with Reef Technology to bring its mushroom-growing shipping containers to major cities across the United States, starting with Austin. Reef transforms urban real estate like parking lots into mobility and logistical hubs and currently operates over 8,000 locations across hundreds of cities. The partnership will help Adapt […]
From shipping container to table: Adapt brings urban mushroom farms to US by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Intel’s best value graphics card, the Arc A750, is available for £250 plus shipping at Overclockers UK
Intel’s Arc graphics cards debuted to surprisingly warm reviews late last year, including over at Digital Foundry where I endorsed them as a “pleasant surprise” that were “already cards worth buying” thanks to better-than-expected performance in modern titles. Six months of patches and performance improvements later, and these GPUs look even better – especially as neither AMD or Nvidia has launched mainstream desktop graphics cards from their most recent generation.
Today, the cheaper of the two cards, the Arc A750, is available for £250 plus shipping at Overclockers UK, a steep £80 reduction from their £330 launch price.