[blang]

I am a little surprised consumers are not buying: Seinfeld, Parks & Rec, and Friends. They can be had on DVD or digitally for less than a year of a streaming service, and it would free you from worrying about when the show will leave your particular streaming service of choice.

[SketchySeaBeast]

I used to do that - I have a pile of old TV show DVD's. When I bought a new TV last year I never bothered to hook up the DVD player - if it's on the service I'll watch it, and if it's not, the need isn't there for me to watch it, there's so much other content available.

[nightski]

I think consumers got burned out rebuying content on the vhs -> dvd -> bluray -> 4k ultra hd transitions.

[mrguyorama]

I think for your average person, nice DVD masters are still perfectly acceptable content

[asdff]

Until you try and watch them on a 4k screen. Somehow the same discs come out looking worse than they did on the 1080p I had just couple months ago. I blame the high refresh rate and questionable upscaling.

[awad]

Anecdotally, I sense consumer preference has changed pretty heavily to streaming first, with the occasional renting or purchase of a movie or sports event via VOD. Another commenter posted about media format fatigue, and that's likely a contributor but there's also something to be said about frictionless consumption available on a single subscription.

[mprev]

I buy DVDs of TV shows then never watch them because all my TVs have Netflix and Sky but there’s just one DVD player.

[SketchySeaBeast]

And it's all the way over there.

While I know that sounds super lazy, it's just so much easier to not have to disc juggle and have Netflix deal with all that (admittedly minor) logistics junk.

[whycome]

My phone doesn't have a DVD player.