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Netflix puts a 'Patriot Act' episode about bad internet access on DVD
The latest episode of Netflix variety talk show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj focuses on the digital divide. In it, Minhaj breaks down some of the many reasons why internet access is so terrible across much of the US, including the roles of carriers and the Federal Communications Commission.
[...] He points out the irony that people who have a strong enough connection to stream the episode probably aren't affected by the problem. So, the Patriot Act team is putting the episode on DVD, which you can rent through Netflix's DVD mail rental service. Around 2.7 million people in the US still get Netflix's red DVD envelopes, so you can order the episode on a disc even if, say, you're struggling with a dial-up connection. Alternatively, the whole episode is on YouTube, so you can watch it even without a Netflix subscription.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:41PM
I still do the DVD plan and I have 300mb. I got rid of the streaming when I realized I had not watched anything on streaming for about 6 months. For some reason I do watch the DVDs.
The selection is fairly hit or miss on streaming. Got through a few seasons of some stuff and ended up on the wrong end of a cut off. With DVD I do not have that issue. I also do not binge watch stuff.
Eventually they will kill off DVD with netflix. At that point I will just go back to buying them. I can get a *large* pile of DVDs from ebay and the library.