Texas woman takes one-billionth Netflix delivery
ByReuters
LOS ANGELES, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A Texas woman won a free lifetime subscription to Netflix Inc after her rental of the Academy Award-nominated film "Babel" became the online DVD rental company's one-billionth delivery on Saturday, the company said.
The woman of Helotes, Texas, a San Antonio suburb, requested anonymity.
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Netflix delivered its first DVDs, including "True Crime," "Analyze This" and "Dr. Strangelove," from a single San Jose, California, warehouse in 1999.
The service, which then had 2,000 titles, has grown to 42 distribution centers nationwide and more than 70,000 DVD titles. It delivers 1.5 million DVDs each day and recently launched an online movie download service with about 1,000 titles.
The top five titles delivered by Netflix over the years were "Crash," "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "Walk the Line," "Hotel Rwanda" and "Million Dollar Baby."
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