True I like being able to watch my copy of The French Connection complete with Gene Hackman saying "Never trust a nigger".
Beyond that there's the simple matter that bit rates and audio/video quality of a Blu Ray are way higher than you'd get from a streaming service. Earlier this year I ripped all my Blu Rays to my media server, and even a 1080p Blu Ray movie is on the order of 30 Mbit/sec and takes about 30 GB of storage. Because the incentives on the Blu Ray ("we have the space on the disc; might as well use it") are completely different than that of a streaming service ("we're paying for all this bandwidth, so it just has to be 'good enough'")
True I like being able to watch my copy of The French Connection complete with Gene Hackman saying "Never trust a nigger".
Beyond that there's the simple matter that bit rates and audio/video quality of a Blu Ray are way higher than you'd get from a streaming service. Earlier this year I ripped all my Blu Rays to my media server, and even a 1080p Blu Ray movie is on the order of 30 Mbit/sec and takes about 30 GB of storage. Because the incentives on the Blu Ray ("we have the space on the disc; might as well use it") are completely different than that of a streaming service ("we're paying for all this bandwidth, so it just has to be 'good enough'")