[tombert]

My rule of thumb has generally been "if there's any chance I'll want to watch the movie more than once, I'll buy the blu-ray."

Until about two years ago, I was happy enough to pay for two streaming services (HBO Max and Hulu), along with Amazon Prime, and I treated that like my "rental store". The first viewing would be to see if I like the movie, and if I did then I would immediately order the blu-ray.

Now I've canceled all my streaming services because I don't want to pay for a million of them.

Just a note, I will very frequently put a movie or TV series on in the background while I work on other things, probably even more frequently than I turn on music. I just like having noise from a movie or show that's familiar for me.

[tracker1]

mostly the same... still have Amazon Prime and Netflix for my SO... I'd be fine dropping them all.

[tombert]

It's just gotten farcical. I am not opposed to paying for my entertainment, but I'm not going to pay in perpetuity $15 a month to ten different services when they will happily delete the content I like for a tax writeoff and replace it with reality TV. I haven't even used Amazon Prime streaming since they started forcing ads on us.

It's how I justify running a server 24/7; the increased power costs are lower than what I'd need to pay to have all the major streaming services every month.