A couple of things lately have made me wonder if they're subtly pushing people off DVDs. First, they moved their distribution center to Salt lake. From where I live, that's two days for mail delivery. They do not appear to work on Saturdays either, so for the most part no matter when I mail a DVD, I'm not going to see a replacement until the Wednesday of next week. This is close to the throttling that got them into trouble before.
More troubling, I've got about 50 titles on my queue currently with about
50% being short, long, or very long waits. One is 'unknown' and has been in that status literally for years. Several of the long waits have been there for months. Actually, the newer TV series seem to do better than the older theatrical movies. What I really liked about Netflix was the ability to get classic, foreign, and obscure DVDs. If they drop those in favor of new releases, RedBox beckons.