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(The company won’t disclose such figures.) Netflix streaming reportedly has fewer than 6,000 film and TV titles, while DVD Netflix has about 100,000. Photo Illustration/alberto mier/cnnĪnyone who has perused the digital aisles of their streaming service will know the options can be limited. Streaming offers a limited selection compared with DVDsĪll of this year's Oscar-nominated movies are available on DVD Netflix. “Actually, our biggest hot spots are the coasts, like the Bay Area and New York.” “People assume that our customers must either be super seniors or folks that live in the boonies with no internet access,” she says. “As all of us are doing it in these parts.”īut Netflix also has plenty of DVD customers in urban areas who prefer the service for its convenience and selection of movies, spokeswoman Annie Jung says. “Streaming movies was a no-go, so I just went with the disc service that Netflix offers,” she says. One such customer is Dana Palmateer, who lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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The US Postal Service, however, can reach every ZIP code with those red envelopes. The Federal Communications Commission estimates 24 million Americans fall on the wrong side of this digital divide. Streaming Netflix video requires a lot of bandwidth – so much so that Netflix consumes 15% of all US internet bandwidth, according to a 2018 industry report.īut many rural areas of the country remain without broadband access. Rural America struggles with broadband access Why are so many people still using this old-school service in the age of streaming? There are a number of reasons. The familiar red envelopes have been arriving in customers’ mailboxes since 1998 and helped earn the company a healthy $212 million profit last year. Remember when Netflix used to be a DVD-by-mail company? Well, for 2.7 million subscribers in the US, it still is.

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