This is devastating for me because I really enjoy watching older, often obscure, movies that are not in any streaming catalogs. Or, if they are, they disappear for unknown reasons.
It looks like I’ll have to be spending more time borrowing discs from the library and buying used discs on eBay.
I just borrowed “Brokedown Palace” yesterday from our library. It was not available on Netflix streaming or DVD. This movie was mentioned and discussed here on FR a week or two ago and looks intriguing.
I used Vudu.com as my streaming service for many classic movies. They have an incredible selection, including the “Brokedown Palace” movie you mentioned.
Please note that libraries will be discontinuing their CD collections, because most administrators look only at circulation numbers. What the front line staff think rarely matters. Contact the library administrators formally now before they go that. Get together petitions. Explain that they, the publicly funded library, are the only source for the public to borrow these prized titles because they are not available in the streaming formet from anyone. Remember the history of the discontinuation of Beta Max in libraries, followed by the history of VHS in libraries. Libraries today all pay for the very same couple of big corporation subscriptions of online streaming of politically-correct, “woke” titles - this for adults, teens, and children. Publishing and librarianship are overwhelmingly dominated by Leftist group think. The uniformity and cherry picked selection of titles should alarm everyone. The range and choice of titles are being made elsewhere, under Leftist corporate aegis.