There are a lot of people out there who love-love-love video streaming. Great. I'll largely stick with physical media though, because (a) I'm at the tail-end of this internet train spur so service is highly unreliable, and (b) what if an old favorite move or series gets politically unpopular or is simply ground under the wheels of corporate maneuvering? Either way with option (b), it's gone-baby-gone and there's nothing to bring it back. Also, streaming services don't seem to maintain a decent back catalogue. From what I've seen, they're more like the modern equivalent of Blockbuster Video, where it's easy to find the latest in the "Robo-Death Lust IV" type movies but just try to find Kagemusha or something from back when Woody Allen was still funny and relevant.
Anyway, Giant Freakin Robot has an article today on the matter, mostly as it relates to The Expanse series. Go and read.
The downside of buying physical media is that you've got to devote shelf space to it, and sometimes you get stuck with prize turkeys. Speaking of which, anybody want a blu-ray copy of Oppenheimer? Ugh, I thought so little of that movie when I finally saw it that I didn't even bother to review it.
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