2023年4月29日

Netflix从dvd后如何冷落之后十亿美元流媒体巨头亚马逊和Netflix大片已经成为一个家喻户晓的名字,目前有超过2.3亿用户×28组报名参加我们的日常通讯的天最大的故事直接发送到你的收件箱中无效的emailSomething出错了,请稍后再试。我们用你注册报名提供内容的方式你同意,提高我们对你的理解。这意味着我们可能包括广告从我们和第三方基于我们的知识。我们也可以改变频率你收到电子邮件从我们为了使你及时和给你最好的相关信息。一如既往地你可以随时取消订阅。更多信息×Netflix被广泛认为是一个最大的流媒体平台。视频点播服务,它可以让你观看成千上万的电影电影和电视节目,已经成为大多数家庭的主食。最新数据显示全球网飞公司目前拥有超过2.3亿用户。今天比以往任何时候都更容易,应用程序可以在多种设备,包括电视、手机和游戏机。但有一段时间,公司只是一个温和的启动寻求破坏视频租赁行业,它彻底改变了,目前占主导地位。 Earlier this month it was announced that Netflix will be pulling the plug on it’s DVD-by-mail service which launched the company more than 25 years ago. It was back in California on August 29, 1997, that Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings founded the company. Hastings was a computer scientist and mathematician who had recently come into some money after a software he helped develop called ‘Pure Atria’ was sold for $750 million. Marc Randolph was a marketing director for Pure Atria at the time of the sale and that is how the two met. The pair came up with the idea for Netflix during their commutes to work where they would car share. Randolph was inspired by Amazon, which back then was still a website to buy and order books. They originally wanted to rent and sell VHS tapes but they were too expensive to stock and too brittle to deliver across America. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings co-founded the streaming service with Marc Randolph (Image: Copyright unknown) The same year of Netflix’s inception in 1997, the DVD was introduced to the United States and the pair found their portable item in which they can sell or rent video content that was fairly cheap to transport and wouldn’t shatter to pieces in the process. Hastings invested $2.5 million into the company and Netflix launched their website with just 30 employees and 925 titles in their library. During their infancy the pair met with Jeff Bezos to discuss the possibility of a sale to Amazon, but Hastings refused the $14 to $16 million offer. During it’s nascent years, Netflix initially offered customers the option to rent each DVD but soon introduced the subscription model in 1999. It wasn’t plain sailing however, in the year 2000 Netflix was suffering losses and the co-founders offered Netflix to another thriving video rental service called Blockbuster. Netflix announced that it's DVD-by-mail service will be shut down in September (Image: AP) Discover, learn, grow. We are Curiously. Follow us on TikTok , Instagram , Facebook and Twitter . $50 million was the price for sale, however, in what is now a notorious decision, Blockbuster CEO at the time John Antioco described the proposition as a “joke” and laughed it away. In the late noughties, Netflix evolved, moving from web browsers to games consoles and smart TVs, before launching on Apple and Nintendo products in 2010. Since then it has seen nothing but success thanks to the video-on-demand boom that was revolutionised by Youtube and the subscription service that it perfected itself. Today, it offers content in over 60 languages, with reports suggesting that as of October last year, it had a catalogue of over 17,000 titles - including a huge collection of original movies and shows, early work being House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. The company has since seen unparalleled success in that sector with other major corporations such as Disney, Apple and Amazon following their lead and creating their own streaming sites. Did you ever use Netflix when it was DVDs in the post? READ NEXT: