Netflix ended last year with nearly 231 million worldwide subscribers to its video streaming service, but it stopped disclosing how many people still pay for DVD-by-mail delivery years ago as that ...

Netflix declined to comment for this story, but during a 2018 media event, Netflix co-founder and co-Chief Executive Reed Hastings suggested the DVD-by-mail service might close around 2023.

The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix's DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after the birth of a concept that provided a springboard into video streaming that has transformed entertainment.

Netflix is mailing out its final red envelopes on Sept. 29, and as a parting gift will let DVD-by-mail customers keep any discs they have out.

Netflix ended last year with nearly 231 million worldwide subscribers to its video streaming service, but it stopped disclosing how many people still pay for DVD-by-mail delivery years ago as that ...

File – Mei Michelson prepares to watch a Netflix DVD at her home in Palo Alto, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2007. The Netflix DVD-by-service will mail out its final discs Friday from its five remaining ...

Remember when Netflix used to be a DVD-by-mail company? Well, for 2.7 million subscribers in the US, the Los Gatos-based company still is.

Netflix is mailing out its final red envelopes on Sept. 29, and as a parting gift will let DVD-by-mail customers keep any discs they have out.

Netflix's DVD-by-mail service bows out as its red-and-white envelopes make their final trip File - Mei Michelson prepares to watch a Netflix DVD at her home in Palo Alto, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2007.

The Netflix DVD-by-service will mail out its final discs Friday from its five remaining distribution centers, ending its 25-year history. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) ...

The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix's once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs came up with a concept.