[stuffbyspencer]

But there's nothing stopping me from stopping the DVD halfway through.

And who's to say I'm being drip-feed these movies on autoplay? What if Ghibli had their own service (please no, not another one lol). I would have to make the deliberate action of going to their platform, searching for the movie I want, and clicking play.

I don't see the lack of streaming as preserving value, the value should (and definetly does imo) come from the movie itself. The animation, the story, the colors, the music.

[romwell]

>And who's to say I'm being drip-feed these movies on autoplay?

Statistics! For Netflix, 80% of subscribers’ watch choices come from their personal recommendation engine.[1]

>But there's nothing stopping me from stopping the DVD halfway through.

Yeah, but you are less likely to do so given the effort it takes you to start.

Same with vinyl disks: I rarely don't listen to an entire side if I start playing a disk.

>I don't see the lack of streaming as preserving value

It's not the lack of streaming, it's shaping the experience.

As an analogy: Michelin-star restaurants probably don't have delivery. It's not that "lack of delivery" is driving their value, it's that sitting down there allows you to experience the food more fully.

[1]https://techjury.net/stats-about/netflix/

[metamet]

> Michelin-star restaurants probably don't have delivery. It's not that "lack of delivery" is driving their value, it's that sitting down there allows you to experience the food more fully.

Very salient point. Fully agree.

[anoncake]

> Statistics! For Netflix, 80% of subscribers’ watch choices come from their personal recommendation engine.

That includes the cases when the recommendation engine just provides the easiest UI to select what you already wanted to watch.