[mechanical_fish]

No surprise to me - I'd prefer the DVD route myself. The streaming service has a fraction of the content and is apparently destined to grow smaller, or more expensive, if the Starz news is any kind of bellwether.

My fear now is that the golden age of rental DVDs will come to an end before I have finished enjoying it. I want to be able to watch older or obscurer films, and the disks are better for that, probably because they don't require me or the rental company to acquire and maintain a stupid never-ending oft-renegotiated contract with a movie studio and its lawyers.

[hack_edu]

While I doubt that the market for older and obscure DVD rentals is going anywhere, most of the titles you seek are likely available in your library system. Ordering them on (free) loan from nearby branches would take about as long as Netflix would to postal mail it.