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I only have Netflix disc rental (blu-ray, one disc out at a time, costs about $10/month). The library is huge and goes back decades. There are usually good us
by PopAlongKid 5y ago
I only have Netflix disc rental (blu-ray, one disc out at a time, costs about $10/month).
The library is huge and goes back decades. There are usually good user reviews at the Netflix web site for guidance. I suspect there are thousands of theatrically released movies that Netflix only offers on disc, not streaming.
In the last ten years, I've rented almost 900 movies (including a few TV shows like Breaking Bad) on disc, so that's well below $2/rental. I live about 50 miles from the nearest distribution center, so turnaround is almost always just two days, because the post office scans the returned disk when I post it, so Netflix sends out the new one the next day, even before they receive my return. They did pull a fast one a few years back by silently stopping outgoing shipments on Saturdays, but I live with it.
Discs have great resolution, often have bonus features, and almost always have closed captioning, which I appreciate more and more as I age. And the credits don't get reduced to a thumbnail on screen so the next show can be promoted. And I don't have to log in, or enable wi-fi on my TV.
I use an old PS3 as my blu ray player, works great with a Logitech remote control, supports HDMI output. I also have a blu-ray external disk drive for my laptop if I'm on the road (only about $100 as I recall).
Since Netflix is primarily responsible for putting Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and various local video stores out of business, I'd be really pissed if they ended the disc rental service.
- the_af 5y ago> Discs have great resolution, often have bonus features, and almost always have closed captioning, which I appreciate more and more as I age. Don't they get scratched these days? I remember the DVD days of Blockbuster, and also thinking "DVD as a technology is just not ready for rental" every time I got a disc that was scratched and/or had sticky stuff glued to it.
- PopAlongKid 5y agoNope. Out of those 900 discs I rented, I've only had to return maybe 2 or 3 as unplayable, and Netflix will immediately send out a replacement or the next disc in your queue, without waiting to receive the return.
- squeaky-clean 5y agoDVD has an issue with scratches, but bluray and later discs have a scratch resistant coating that works extremely well.
- greedo 5y agoNetflix must remove it then, because 50% of the BR discs I rented before cancelling that part of my NF subscription were unplayable.