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I'm still on the disc-by-mail plan because I get the full quality the disc has. No dropouts, no (additional) compression artifacts, no reduced resolution becaus
by chiph 8y ago
I'm still on the disc-by-mail plan because I get the full quality the disc has. No dropouts, no (additional) compression artifacts, no reduced resolution because of network congestion.[1]
I will say that their long-tail catalog isn't as long as it used to be. About a third of my queue is titles that they recognize, but do not have in stock -- presumably they used to have them but don't anymore. Still better than the streaming catalog, though.
[1] Most people likely don't get any of those artifacts. But it only has to happen once during a showing and I get pissed off. Not worth the chance of it happening.
- smelendez 8y agoI feel about DVDs the way you feel about streaming. Every time I've been somewhere where someone's shown one in recent memory, the disc has been scratched or dirty and the player starts going berzerk. And half the time there are difficult-to-skip previews and copyright notices. I'd rather go back to renting VHS tapes than deal with DVDs.
- nightfly 8y agoRural areas often have local thift stores with massive VHS collections. You can buy a tape for, usually, a $1, keep it as long as you want and donate it back if you decide you don't want it taking up space any more.