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If what you're looking for it is available, you have to figure out which service has it, hope you already subscribe to it, or else you'll be paying for yet another service. You could probably find most anything through "not-legal" means but going that route, quality will usually be even more degraded than streaming as it was ripped and highly compressed.
Physical media has so many advantages to digital libraries with only two possible downsides:
1) Storage Space - Some people resolve this by getting the flip books that hold 100+ discs and discarding or storing the cases somewhere.
2) Possible disc rot - As with any physical media, there are imperfections and issues that can arise. Disc rot is not going to happen - the primary source was pinpointed to discs manufactured at certain pressing facilities. But all media are ticking timebombs, and most of what you find today have been sitting under tarps at flea markets in the sun, rain, and other weather conditions.
With streaming, they can take your viewing license away for the movie. They can dub, cut, or manipulate words/scenes. Touchstone is (was) Disney's 80s "adult" studio they didn't want to attach the Disney name/brand and allow them to break away from "kid-friendly" movies. Splash (1984) is one that Disney owns and now streams on either D+ or Hulu. However, Madison (Daryl Hannah) has had digital hair extensions added and/or boobs/butt blurred or cut out in any of those out of water scenes. They cut or heavily censor the John Candy scene where he talks Swedish and says "Hey buddy, I have a 10 inch pen*s". Adventures in Babysitting is another. The most quoted line from that movie is on the subway when she says "Don't f**k with the babysitter" - is now dubbed to say "Don't fool with the babysitter". Sorry Charlie, not the same! If it's prime-time TV, I understand the language dub... but this is a streaming service that I'm paying for to see a flick that is no longer original because it offended someone. These are 2 movie examples out of many that have been altered.
Streaming doesn't offer special features, commentary, extras, or bonus material. And every streaming service compresses the data stream. It may look fine to you, but you will never get the full/true audio experience and video quality of a physical disc no matter how fast your internet service is. It's not your connection, it's the streaming service. But if your connection goes down for a few hours, a day, a week due to storms, main line cuts, or other situations... no streaming for you except on a 5" phone screen.
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It's also kinda funny because the digital sales postings always have the folks dropping in saying how unwise it is to buy digitally because sometimes people have lost their digital stuff and it isn't transferable and you can't sell it. They call it long term rental. Sometimes digital stuff gets changed or censored or edited, I guess.
Me personally, I have both. I like to buy physically and get codes for digital, ideally. I buy physical the stuff I like the most. It's SD so price is also important, mostly.
Additionally, you need to keep a working player for discs. If the companies stop making them one day, similar to how Apple stopped including disk drives in their computers and then all other manufacturers followed their lead, then it's going to be more difficult for new collectors to get into physical media.
In conclusion, just chill. Those who favor streaming are always going to say what's on their mind about physical media, and we can just ignore them.
If what you're looking for it is available, you have to figure out which service has it, hope you already subscribe to it, or else you'll be paying for yet another service. You could probably find most anything through "not-legal" means but going that route, quality will usually be even more degraded than streaming as it was ripped and highly compressed.
Physical media has so many advantages to digital libraries with only two possible downsides:
1) Storage Space - Some people resolve this by getting the flip books that hold 100+ discs and discarding or storing the cases somewhere.
2) Possible disc rot - As with any physical media, there are imperfections and issues that can arise. Disc rot is not going to happen - the primary source was pinpointed to discs manufactured at certain pressing facilities. But all media are ticking timebombs, and most of what you find today have been sitting under tarps at flea markets in the sun, rain, and other weather conditions.
With streaming, they can take your viewing license away for the movie. They can dub, cut, or manipulate words/scenes. Touchstone is (was) Disney's 80s "adult" studio they didn't want to attach the Disney name/brand and allow them to break away from "kid-friendly" movies. Splash (1984) is one that Disney owns and now streams on either D+ or Hulu. However, Madison (Daryl Hannah) has had digital hair extensions added and/or boobs/butt blurred or cut out in any of those out of water scenes. They cut or heavily censor the John Candy scene where he talks Swedish and says "Hey buddy, I have a 10 inch pen*s". Adventures in Babysitting is another. The most quoted line from that movie is on the subway when she says "Don't f**k with the babysitter" - is now dubbed to say "Don't fool with the babysitter". Sorry Charlie, not the same! If it's prime-time TV, I understand the language dub... but this is a streaming service that I'm paying for to see a flick that is no longer original because it offended someone. These are 2 movie examples out of many that have been altered.
Streaming doesn't offer special features, commentary, extras, or bonus material. And every streaming service compresses the data stream. It may look fine to you, but you will never get the full/true audio experience and video quality of a physical disc no matter how fast your internet service is. It's not your connection, it's the streaming service. But if your connection goes down for a few hours, a day, a week due to storms, main line cuts, or other situations... no streaming for you except on a 5" phone screen.
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