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I'm nearly ready to cancel my streaming subscription. There is less and less studio movies I want to see on there, and more Netflix originals. Not that I have a
by overcast 8y ago
I'm nearly ready to cancel my streaming subscription. There is less and less studio movies I want to see on there, and more Netflix originals. Not that I have an issue with the originals, there are good ones, but there is seriously nothing else worth watching. I still subscribe to Blu-Ray rentals for the following reasons.
A. Streaming quality is still poor, particularly audio. The bitstreams are compressed beyond normal DTS/DD compression, and it sounds like garbage in comparison to the lossless tracks on physical disks. To me the audio track is 90% of any movie.
B. It's impossible to find the vast majority of movies on streaming. If something pops up, it disappears in a month or so. Out of FIVE HUNDRED physical discs queued up, only TWELVE are available on streaming. I seriously fear the day they get rid of physical disk rental all together. Their catalog is expansive, and we have ZERO other options now.
I just bumped from 2 discs to 3 discs out at a time, because we no longer have 1 day turn around times on returning and sending out discs. It's nearly impossible to get one back the same week unless you send it out Monday or Tuesday.
- ghaff 8y agoI still get disks for the same reason. Unfortunately they're literally letting their back catalog rot with more and more in-print films no longer available. Unfortunately at least some of them aren't available on a la carte streaming services.