In a sad but inevitable announcement, Netflix said that it will close its original DVD-by-mail service later this year, a business that lasted more than a quarter century.

Netflix宣布将在今年晚些时候关闭其原始的dvd邮寄服务，这项业务已经持续了超过25年。

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos broke the news on the official Netflix blog, just hours before the company was due to announce its first-quarter 2023 earnings.

Netflix联合首席执行官泰德·萨兰多斯在Netflix官方博客上宣布了这一消息，就在该公司即将公布其2023年第一季度财报的几个小时前。

“After an incredible 25 year run, we’ve decided to wind down DVD.com later this year,” Sarandos wrote in the blog post.

萨兰多斯在博客中写道:“在经历了25年令人难以置信的运营之后，我们决定在今年晚些时候关闭DVD.com。”

It wasn’t until 2007 that Netflix jumped into streaming (with a player manufactured by Roku), and even then, it felt more like an experiment than a replacement for DVDs (the video quality then was pretty iffy, a far cry from the 4K Dolby Vision streams we enjoy today).

直到2007年，Netflix才开始涉足流媒体领域(使用Roku生产的播放器)，即使在那时，它也更像是一种实验，而不是dvd的替代品(当时的视频质量相当不稳定，与我们今天享受的4K杜比视界(Dolby Vision)流媒体相去甚远)。

Eventually, of course, Netflix’s streaming business grew to gargantuan proportions, dwarfing the original DVD-by-mail business. As Variety notes, Netflix’s DVD income only accounted to a mere 0.5 percent of the company’s overall revenue by 2022.

当然，最终,Netflix的流媒体业务发展到了巨大的规模，使原来的dvd邮寄业务相形见绌。正如《综艺》杂志所指出的那样，到2022年，Netflix的DVD收入仅占该公司总收入的0.5%。