I recently cancelled my Netflix DVD subscription, which I wasn’t using as much as when I signed up in 2010. Among my friends and coworkers, I’m one of the last people to use the service. Before I canceled the subscription, I three years worth of Netflix send/return emails from my Gmail and cleaned the data in Excel.
So was Netflix DVD a good value? In 2011-2012, it definitely was. There were be nights where I’d watch a DVD the same day I received it in the mail, and mail it back the next morning. But, as time went on, and I worked longer hours, I had less time to commit to movies. All of a sudden, I didn’t want to commit 2-3 hours of my evening to a movie which demands my full attention. My indifference to the DVD service started in August 2016. In the graph below, we can see I stopped returning DVD’s almost entirely.
So what DVD’s spent the most time at home?
173 days: The Hateful Eight (June 10 – November 29 2017)
114 days: Her (July 30, 2014- November 20, 2014)
97 days: The Usual Suspects (October 10, 2013 – Jan 14, 2014)
93 days: Inside Llewyn Davis (November 20, 2014 – Feb. 20, 2015)
91 days: Paul (Sep 8, 2015 – Dec 7, 2015)
91 days: Foxcatcher (Sep 8, 2015 – Dec 7, 2015)
80 days: The Godfather (Dec 23, 2015 – Mar 11, 2016)
71 days: The Imitation Game (Aug 4, 2016 – Oct 13, 2016)
70 days: Nightcrawler (April 15, 2015 – June 23, 2015)