With streaming video, I don't have to sit through unskippable do not pirate warnings, ads, unresponsive and annoying menus. Oh wait, the only difference is the piracy warning.

Yes, but there's no reason it can't be streamed at exactly the same bitrate if you have a decent connection. They're both just data.

Why so the conversation centered around physical vs streaming???

But a cheap pc and use it to stream locally (plex, jellyfin, etc) and you’ll have no real data loss and it will look just as good without having to fuck around with discs and dvd/bluray/whatever drives.

Fuck streaming services, fuck physical media, learn to manage it yourself and you’ll never cry about scratched disks, dead lasers, whatever else you have with physical, along with the bad downscaling, bad pricing, roving licenses of streaming services

the biggest flaw with streaming is the inconsistency of connection, and the very inopportune moments that the suspension of disbelief in storytelling can be marked by glitches on any platform.

Are we going to pretend discs can't get scratched? I've had to deal with a lot more broken discs then glitchs with Netflix, which are essentially non-existant these days.

The biggest flaw with physical media is you have to pay 30$ for a 2 hour movie. The amount of money my parents spent buying and renting movies when I was a kid is mind boggling. A TV series was like 80$.

Streaming is insanely convenient compared to physical. It sucks we don't have extras but jfc, physical is not better. Not to mention the pollution it brings about.