Well, the end of an era, as technology advances, is what this story is about.
I’m sure the DVD rentals declined, as so many people are into streaming nowadays. Why rent a DVD and wait for it to be mailed to you, when you can watch it tonight on a streaming service?
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Most of the movies made over the past 100 years are not available via streaming. A great many good movies, if not most, are on DVD but are not streamed online.
Woke companies are also now editing old movies digitally to make them more woke. This is a really bad situation.
Mostly price. For $9 a month you get one DVD at a time unlimited for a month. Mail, watch, mail back. You could squeeze in 5 or 6 a month.
Streaming is around $4 to $15 or more each depending on release date.
The big thing I like is the “fire and forget” nature of the DVD queue. See a trailer, hear about a movie, just throw it in my queue and it’ll show up in a couple years (kept my queue pretty stacked) without me even having to remember anything about it. While I can add things to my streaming accounts, there isn’t that eventuality of it showing up in the mail. I still have to decide to watch it, and if I look at it and can’t remember why I put it there, I won’t watch it.