Oh there’s plenty to watch via Netflix. Almost anything you want to see is available; I’m adding to my queue much faster than I can empty it. Sure a lot may be drivel, but it’s drivel _I_ want to see, when I want, on my own terms, without commercial interruption.
With 150+ in my queue now, there’s no point in buying a movie when it will be an optimistic 3 years before I get a chance to watch anything a second time (and that’s without any more additions to the list).
I expect my only movie purchases in the next 5 years will be a dozen Blu-ray discs for those very few I re-watch and want to possess (Koyaanisqatsi, Watchmen, Matrix, Blade Runner, Being Human, Truman Show, etc.).
This is good to know. We’ll be more thorough in the future.
I’ve got the original theatrical edition of Blade Runner on laser disc (after putting off buying it on numerous ocassions even after the prices dropped cheaper than used records).
I may get the DVD set (with the variant versions of the film) but generally it is a film that I’d rather see on a big screen.
And I agree on netflix queues but having bought home video for decades now, I will buy the less common titles. The Bond films will always be reissued in whatever format comes along, generally with some different content than before.
I’ve got some of the Bond films but not a complete set.
But there are other titles that will be slow if ever to be reissued. Even Koyaanisqatsi (a film that I’ve seen but do not own or intend to buy) was slow to come to DVD (at least in anything other than an exclusive high dollar edition).
Some of the resale prices on out of print DVDs are crazy ($40-100 and up).
And some of the titles I’ve rented from Netflix and would like to see again are no longer in their catalog (the title is there but it is no longer available).