@irongrey said in Last movie you watched:
I wouldn't be so sure. Life changes in unexpected manners and it doesn't bode well for us to grasp too much to old concepts.
I'll stick with the old concept until it's gone. Netflix and Vudu always look crappy on my high speed 90 Mbps connection. Disney Plus is the only one that looks good (although, not as good as the disc). Makes me wonder if Comcast is throttling Netflix.
I feel like these companies would come together and create one streaming service if they really cared about making money off all their titles. There are probably a lot of people, myself included, who might be interested in streaming if the market wasn't so segmented. Netflix almost never has the title I'm looking for. There are so many movies that just aren't available on the major services, ones they could be making money off. I know from speaking with and listening to people and browsing forums that most subscribers won't even watch something if it's not available on Netflix, Hulu or Disney Plus, but I bet they do still wish their first choices for streaming had more offerings. Paying for multiple subscriptions a month in order to access only some of cinema seems so self-defeating when I could just buy the movies I want and never have to worry about the licenses running out. It's only gonna get worse as more studios try to get a piece of the pie and take their licenses to their own services. I expect more Disney Plus scenarios in the future. I also don't have to wonder if a movie is supposed to look better on my connection (though, most of the time, it's obvious to me that it should look better). Better sound too.
Some people think it's so strange that I collect movies on disc, which makes me think a lot of them have just ditched physical media because it's the norm. They probably think ditching physical media future-proofs them, but I bet I'll still be able to play almost all my licenses long before their services of choice lose them. Factory-printed Blu-ray discs have very long shelf-lives. Besides, I can back up my discs. Eventually, I'll get a UHD capable drive, like the LG WH16NS60, and rip those discs into MKVs too. I can make space in my apartment. Space is not worth so much to me that I'd surrender to all the drawbacks of streaming.
Netflix DVD really helps too. They have a far more expansive collection than the three major streaming services combined, because by law a library can rent out any movie or book they want. There's no licensing issue. Sadly, because most people have switched to streaming, there are only about thirteen Netflix shipping centers left in the country. I used to be able to rent six discs a week. Not anymore. Also, some titles that used to be available on Blu-ray are now only available on DVD. I'll likely keep subscribing until the service is gone.
The studios don't want you to have any ownership, which makes me even more resistant to give up discs.
