“Generous offer?” Holy fucking spin zone. Every disc they let a customer keep is just a disc they don’t have to worry about disposing off. Just happens to be a modest bonus for their subscribers.

There is lots of content that isn’t licensed for streaming, and is out-of-print on DVD. Its entirely possible that Netflix DVD rental may be the ONLY place to get certain titles. Depending on what you had out, this may be quite a boon for those that have rare titles in hand.

Something like the Blu Ray of Kevin Smith’s 1999 movie “Dogma” could cost you $175 to buy

Well, DVDs are cheaper. Especially used DVDs. Dogma on DVD in state “Very Good” goes for around £2-3 on amazon.co.uk.

Honorable mention: You can stream it on himovies.sx for free. You can also use Inspector’s network tab on Firefox to get the .m3u8 stream and pass it to youtube-dl. For true experience, burn it to DVD.

Edit: You can also get it on VHS tape for £3 apparently.

Well, DVDs are cheaper. Especially used DVDs. Dogma on DVD in state “Very Good” goes for around £2-3 on amazon.co.uk.

Those are PAL and Region 2 DVDs. So they won’t work in regular US DVD players. Welcome to the wonderful world of regional distribution contracts.