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How it started Before Netflix fully committed to becoming a streaming service and leaving DVDs behind , the company experimented with the idea of giving its subscribers a physical box that could access high-resolution digital copies of movies.
Films would have been downloaded to the box in the evening and become available to users the next day.
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