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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

That and DVDs were like £3 most of the time. I'd always be picking up stuff just for the hell of it. Got shelves full of them.

Blu-rays and especially 4K Blu-rays were pretty much always full price of £20. That's at least a whole month of any streaming service and sometimes two. Plus I can barely tell any difference between streaming and disc, especially on the picture quality. The audio is more noticeable, but not worth £20 a movie.

The current streaming services will slowly decline as well until they realise they need to switch to a music industry model where nearly everything is on every service. I installed Jellyfin ages ago, and the experience of just having one service to look through is so much better than dipping into half a dozen apps to see if any of them have what you want to watch.

I know what I'm after as an experience, it's up to them if they want to provide it at a reasonable price.