Physical media is better than streaming services.

"Netflix and Hulu let you pull out every month and do not trap you or goad you into longer-term contracts."

"On the flip side, Netflix in particular not only innovates (which Pro implies is a negative) with many quality original series and movies,"

"but the point is that all of these online streaming platforms make a disproportionately secure way for the producer/provider and consumer to interact with safe risk involved for both."

"oh no you had to be rich enough to mass-produce legitimate DVDs. Legitimate DVDs are not just about paying a cd and writing on it, that's illegal and known as 'ripping' (old school version of what now is torrenting). Even if it's your own media you needed to do things in a very official way or else the CD easily ends up discoloured and overheated during the writing (it's setup that way for security) whereas a proper 'raw DVD' comes from a specific disc written in an official way that leaves it silver and shiny.

You had to pay for licensing, consistent copyright and had to convince shopkeepers to gamble hard on your movie/series in case consumers didn't like it. There was no way on Earth for Joe Schmoe random producer to reach ordinary people outside his local area at all. This all changed now. If you can convince Netflix to invest, or Disney or whoever or at the very least after some minimalistic, moderate success talk them into renting your series/movie to put on their platform, you can hit masses just like *poof* and the best part? If it goes wrong, you still got some guaranteed cash out of it, your time and effort weren't wasted."

"On the flip side, Netflix in particular not only innovates (which Pro implies is a negative) with many quality original series and movies, but the point is that all of these online streaming platforms make a disproportionately secure way for the producer/provider and consumer to interact with safe risk involved for both."

"A classic line I see from 'oldies' or 'boomers' these days is that platforms like Netflix are killing off creativity but the exact opposite is true."

"This type of easing of gambling is also seen by consumers. Consumers/viewers needn't spend one cent extra to risk seeing something they'll hate, they click play check it out and if they don't like it can switch over to something else."

"This means both providers and consumers are able to risk safer with more edgy series and movies.""

"Now to just quickly dispel a myth. Quality if the highest Spotify and Netflix, Hulu etc products is equal to anything short of blu-ray in physical media and blu-ray is a lot more expensive."

"Blu-ray quality would be very, very slightly better than that. All other DVD variants will be equal.

As for music, only sheer vinyl (similar to blu-ray but for music) will slightly push the quality that the highest Spotify quality offers.

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"The point is that quality-wise only the crème de la crème of physical, where it's a lot more expensive for that 1 movie or series, is the quality truly beyond the peak of online streaming."

Just because of the rise of Spotify and Netflix, the online piracy has fall down to its lowest rate in years, according to a research. According to Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which is tasked with fighting copyright infringement, found that 15pc of internet users illegally accessed films, music and other material between March and May.

The rate is 18pc down than last year, and also the lowest recorded rate in the five years the study has been carried out. Recently, 44pc of internet users are using exclusively legal means, up from 39pc at the end of 2015. The Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville Rolfe explained, “Consumers appear to be turning towards legitimate streaming en masse”.

On-demand internet services, which enable subscribers’ unlimited access to a catalogue of music or videos and films for a monthly fee or via an advertising-funded model, have been accused of diluting industry revenues and artists like Taylor Swift have restricted access on some platforms.

As per the research, those using peer-to-peer file-sharing services – a popular way to pirate material – fell from 12pc to 10pc of all those who download or stream media.

Baroness Rolfe added, “Online copyright infringement has been a running sore for the UK’s creative industries for far too long. I am extremely pleased to see that there has been a decline in infringement and that consumers appear to be turning towards legitimate streaming en masse.”

The research showed that while spending on music and films is rising, spending on video games and TV shows is falling.

To put this all into economic perspective for you, a DVD generally costs $5.00 to $20.00, and that means the cheapest DVDs only let you buy 2 for 1 month of the cheapest Netflix, for 3 cheapest, bad DVDs you get 1 month Netflix... For an expensive DVD you get highest quality 1 month Netflix for 4 screens to view at one time.

To convince a seller in a shop to sell your DVD is already hard whereas for a streaming service with thousands of shows, it's a safe enough bet to at least trial-run you for a month. Now, imagine blu-rays (they can range hugely we are talking $40 per blu-ray for nwer movies and $25 as bare minimum for newer movies).

Are you gonna risk somebody's blu-ray as a retailer? Should they risk making it? Should consumers risk buying it, watching it and hating it?

It also helped to curtail the motive for Internet piracy:

Just because of the rise of Spotify and Netflix, the online piracy has fall down to its lowest rate in years, according to a research. According to Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which is tasked with fighting copyright infringement, found that 15pc of internet users illegally accessed films, music and other material between March and May.

The rate is 18pc down than last year, and also the lowest recorded rate in the five years the study has been carried out. Recently, 44pc of internet users are using exclusively legal means, up from 39pc at the end of 2015. The Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville Rolfe explained, “Consumers appear to be turning towards legitimate streaming en masse”.

On-demand internet services, which enable subscribers’ unlimited access to a catalogue of music or videos and films for a monthly fee or via an advertising-funded model, have been accused of diluting industry revenues and artists like Taylor Swift have restricted access on some platforms.

As per the research, those using peer-to-peer file-sharing services – a popular way to pirate material – fell from 12pc to 10pc of all those who download or stream media.

Baroness Rolfe added, “Online copyright infringement has been a running sore for the UK’s creative industries for far too long. I am extremely pleased to see that there has been a decline in infringement and that consumers appear to be turning towards legitimate streaming en masse.”

The research showed that while spending on music and films is rising, spending on video games and TV shows is falling.

https://www.insightssuccess.com/spotify-and-netflixs-rise-made-the-internet-piracy-fall-down/

We can sit and pretend things. We can say 'oh la di da blu-ray and vinyl achieve a higher max quality than max of streaming by a small margin' or we can focus on what matters: if for producer flexibility and consumer flexibility this benefits both ends and by goodness does streaming win in a landslide.

As a consumer, you are paying to freely, risk-free venture into edge-of-your-taste picks that you wouldn't otherwise risk. Spotify and Netflix use algorithms to recommend series to you, sure yes but the point is that if something's brand new and sponsored by Netflix or Hulu (or a product of Disney and/or HBO) you can stream it right way, to your pleasure.