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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7335772" data-attributes="member: 20564">I don't believe the author of the article took into consideration the costs of TV series.One season of one show will easily triple, quadruple or more the cost of an entire month's streaming.  If you watch more than one show, or more than one season in a month it's overwhelming.  And TV series often have little to no replay value.So, now let's look at movies.  You streaming is already absolutely paid for many times over by TV shows.  So, movies you can watch on it are free, movies you need to pay a rental/on-demand you need to spend <$5 on.  Purchasing a DVD/Blu-Ray has unlimited potential for replay, but only an actual amount of replay for the cost to be depreciated over.So a movie you end up watching three times, if it's not available for free streaming at ANY of the times you want to watch it, will be about equal in cost to a $15 Blu-Ray.And while there are movies worth rewatching, I'm finding that there are many that don't clear the threshold of "I have so many new shows available for free on streaming".So in my experience streaming far outweighs purchasing DVDs and Blu-Ray with very few exceptions - movies you intend to watch over and over that you don't expect to be offered on streaming.  At other times either watching a movie offered on streaming or renting an on-demand movie through streaming is much more economical as well as offering more choice.</blockquote>