"Too bad you probably cannot subscribe, living in Britland as you do!"
John, I watch so little TV it would be a waste of money for me to subscribe to any film streaming service. Buying discs as I do I can be selective and can watch them at my leisure, loan them out to friends and still own them. Should I find them not to my liking I can always bang them out on eBay and get some of my money back.
It's not much different from borrowing books from a library versus actually owning the books.
Regards,
Jay.?
I've got a fairly big dvd collection, well over 1000 disks . Mostly UK comedy and drama from the 1970's & 1980's. You name something from that time and there's a good chance I've got it.
In the last couple of years I've been using Netflix and Amazon Prime streaming because it's so easy. No disks or cases to store, just click a button and you're off.
I watched The League Of Gentlemen on Netflix and thought how clever I was not to have wasted cash buying it on DVD. Which I nearly did the year before.
Then there was all this recent woke bullshit, and they started going after old shows. Fawlty Towers, Little Britain and The League Of Gentlemen were 3 that either had episodes removed from various streaming services, or were taken down completely.
Here's a snippet I copied from a news source:
John Cleese has laid into the "cowardly and gutless" BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was temporarily removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform. A 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off UKTV's streaming service because it contains "racial slurs".
It brought home to me that if you only have streaming services, then you're at the whim of the constantly offended. All it takes is a few thousand of the outrage mob to get together on Twitter and decide your favourite comedy isn't PC enough, and your favourite show may be gone. These massive companies often bend over at the first sign of trouble.
But if you own a DVD of the same show, it's yours. It doesn't matter if other people don't like it. You can lend it out, sell it, whatever.
It just made me realise, that's all. It'd never crossed my mind that classics like The League Of Gentlemen or Fawlty Towers could suddenly dissappear.
There's a lot to be said for actually owning the physical media.
