WHY I LOVE STREAMING

 You know, I consider myself something of a film buff - I'm a life long film fan and my leanings tend to go more towards classic movies.

 

Westerns, - love those.

Film Noir - Bring them on.

 I've got a large DVD, Bluray and 4K collection - I've been buying DVD's since day one, and over the years have moved to Bluray. I also pick up a 4K issue from time to time - Mind you, my 4K collection is a lot smaller than my DVD or Blurays, but then I don't consider 4K to be that much of a jump from Bluray, in terms of picture and audio quality, but that's an argument for another post. 

 

It's streaming I want to talk about and why I think, as a physical media collector it is the best thing to happen since those cranky old VHS tapes were replaced by the shiny discs. 

You see, I do stream shows - I've binged the new remastered Beatles Anthology on Disney this past week, and I do enjoy Prime's Bosch. Netflix too, has some gems amongst a lot of crud.

 

When I settle down of an evening - a glass of whisky, feet up then it's an old movie I reach for - Last night I watched the new 4K restoration of John Ford's Quiet Man. Blown away is an understatement! 

That was physical media, of course since finding a classic movie, that something you fancy, on the various streaming platforms is....well, good luck with that. 

And when you do find something you fancy they are never broadcast in the same quality as a good physical disc. Bandwidth, you see. 

And of course titles can be removed from streaming platforms at the drop of a hat, but my discs are always on my shelves.

 So why love streaming?

 All I've done above is illustrate how inferior streaming is compared to owning the film physically.

I've highlighted how owning titles physically is the only option for the true cinephile. 

 

Still I love streaming.

Why? 

 Well you see, since streaming became mainstream the bottom of the market as fallen out of the physical market, which means you can now pick up blurays for next to nothing. This week I trawled the charity shops and got ten blurays, one of these was a 4k Apocalypse Now, for ten quid.

 

That's thanks to streaming. 

I love streaming!