Just something I wanted to ask.

Do you think Netflix ruins buying movies altogether? I mean, I used to enjoy picking up a movie, any movie, no one's ever heard of it. I watch it. I gotta show it to other people now because it's so fucking cool. I used to take pride in knowing that I had these really cool movies that nobody else I knew had or heard of and then getting everybody into it. But nowadays, it's like, "You wanna watch what? Oh... wait... I have that on my Netflix. I already saw it." I don't know. It's like, where's the fucking joy? What's the point of even buying movies when you can just watch Netflix? I don't know. Discuss.

for me, netflix enhances the movie viewing experience. i love their classics movie collection, and documentaries. imo, netflix would be perfect if they made available via streaming, ALL movies they list. thank you, that is all.

I don't do Netflix or Redbox.

Probably one of a handful of people that still get in their car and drive to Blockbuster.

Isn't it a case of Netflix Vs renting movies (rather than Netflix Vs buying movies)? At least that seems like the more fair comparison to me.

As for buying movies, I'm one of the few people who still do that, and since BluRay is still - after an unexpectedly long time - still very expensive and have a small selection, I buy them on DVD. I don't buy just any movie though, but rather little-known, hard-to-find ones that might eventually disappear from the market altogether. It's great to have them in my book-shelf knowing that I can lend them to people and that I'll be able to view them again long after they're forgotten. Plus I just like the look and feel of an actual dvd cover with artwork, disc etc.

retina said:

Isn't it a case of Netflix Vs renting movies (rather than Netflix Vs buying movies)? At least that seems like the more fair comparison to me.

As for buying movies, I'm one of the few people who still do that, and since BluRay is still - after an unexpectedly long time - still very expensive and have a small selection, I buy them on DVD. <b>I don't buy just any movie though, but rather little-known, hard-to-find ones that might eventually disappear from the market altogether.</b> It's great to have them in my book-shelf knowing that I can lend them to people and that I'll be able to view them again long after they're forgotten. Plus I just like the look and feel of an actual dvd cover with artwork, disc etc.

As far as Netflix vs renting movies, I think Netflix is actually a very convenient company, I just wish they had more titles to offer. They don't have every movie, and some of them have to be mailed to you instead of streamed. I don't know, if you're anything like me you take pride in your music/movie collection, and there's a lot of obscurities. I don't know, it's kinda hard to explain how I'm feeling about all this. I guess it just kind of bugs me that little-known movies I owned before Netflix, my friends would come over, watch it, get into it. It does something for the ego. May be a negative thing, but so be it. Now anybody can watch anything, any time. I don't know... the question I was trying to ask got lost in translation, but it's like what's the point in owning anything when (almost) everything is so readily available these days? It's like music and back then going to a record store and finding an album and getting into it and going to the show and waiting until the band released the next one. Nowadays you can get a whole friggin discography if you want with the click of a button. And while yeah that's great, you have the entire Bad Religion cataloge or whatever, to me I think a lot of the joy got taken out because of the convenience of Netflix/iTunes whatever. I remember years ago, the Black Album (Prince) was the only thing I wanted to get my greedy little hands on and for years and years and years I searched high and low hoping, praying one day I would find it. And then one day I did. And that was exciting. Or for me, actually finding a copy of Lost Highway in real life, which I also did. I don't know. I got a lot of joy and pride out of these things and I just think these days that beauty is often stripped away because you can get any of this shit on ebay or whatever. Sorry.