[turnsout]

Yeah, I think younger people don't realize how limiting Netflix's library is today. They used to have absolutely everything. If it was released on DVD, they had it.

Now if I want to watch a movie or TV show, I need to consult an aggregator [0] to figure out where it's streaming.

As a nerd, I was so excited about the early days of streaming, as it felt like the inevitable path for a company like Netflix.

Now though, I'm way past subscription fatigue. I've seen movies I "purchased" on iTunes be silently swapped out for other versions as the licensing changed.

So I recently bought a Blu-ray player for the first time, and I'm assembling a library of plastic discs. This might be the last physical media format for video, so I want to support it and grab some of these titles while they're available.

[0]: https://www.justwatch.com