I bought my first CD records in 1990 and they are still in good shape.
Is Voyager gone from Netflix?
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I prefer hard copies myself (Blu-Ray or DVDs). It's one thing if it's just a show I'm casually watching. I get Peacock with my internet service free since I have Xfinity and I like watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Hunter (from the 80s). Those are fine for streaming because I'm just a casual fan of those. And there's some other shows I watch on streaming sometimes like that. I'll watch them as a casual fan, but not a big enough fan to want to actually buy it on disc.
But when it comes to shows or movies I'm a big fan of, like Star Trek, Hitchcock movies, James Bond movies, etc. those I want hard copies for. That way I always have them to watch whenever I want, commercial free and without having to worry if they might disappear from whatever streaming service I am using because the license changed or the studio changed of what have you.
With music I'm still a big CD buyer. When it comes to music I prefer to have the actual disc in hand (along with the album artwork which for many albums, esp. in the 1970s and 80s was just as big a part of the album package as the music itself. I find it amusing that LPs are back in vogue nowadays.
I just finished a rewatch of Voyager and after the final episode there was a card that said the last chance to watch Voyager on Netflix would be September 30th, and this will sound silly but, when the card dissolved away they did it so slowly it just FELT SAD, lol. It felt very sad.
I totally agree with what you have written.
As for music, I prefer to buy CD:s too. As a fan of certain bands, I collect their records and want the actual artwork on the album sleeves.
I think Netflix is going to be seeing a lot more of this. As every network makes a streaming online version of itself. Can't say this is going to be enjoyable for the consumer.
Yeah, soon enough people will be spending as much as cable to get the shows they want. Or . more
More streaming "channels" and fragmented moderately expensive subscriptions is why there is little wonder (in the past couple of years) many viewers have migrated back to physical media (saving DVDs, etc, from the brink of death) and of course exacerbating piracy of all stripes (a self-fulfilling prophecy by media megacorps).
The big difference is that it is very, very easy to sign up for a particular streaming service for a short time to watch the shows or movies you want on that service, and then cancel it. And then do the same thing for a different streaming service that has other shows you like. So I'll sign up for Disney+ for a couple months while there are new episodes of the Mandalorian, and then cancel it until next year. And then sign up for Netflix to binge the latest season of The Flash, and then cancel it, and so on. Maybe at times I'll have two services going at once, so $20 for that month. Still way less than cable.
In the days of cable, you couldn't customize which channels you wanted (besides adding premium channels all together a more expensive bundle), and trying to cancel anything was like pulling the teeth of a grizzly bear as you could only cancel by phone and not online, and they would use pushy sales tactics and "deals" to keep you signed up... plus the hassle of having to send back the equipment if you didn't want to keep getting charged for it.
Kor
A lot of them already offer a discount if you sign up for a year instead of doing the monthly option. But it's not likely that they would start requiring everyone to sign up for longer-term contracts and take away the monthly subscription model. In this day and age that's an archaic concept which would be taking their business model way backwards, and would alienate plenty of today's Millennial and Generation Z viewers (and others) who don't do contracts. The current model, with the monthly option as the standard, has already been working great for these companies and making them plenty of money for several years.
Kor
I just checked a couple hours ago.
TOS, VOYAGER, and ENTERPRISE are gone from Netflix. TNG and DS9 are still there, though. Odd.
TOS, VOYAGER, and ENTERPRISE are gone from Netflix. TNG and DS9 are still there, though. Odd.
Well, I don't know for the original Netflix but Netflix France keep proposing the show in its programme. Besides, French viewers ar lucky because they can watch all Star Trek (movies and shows) and see the evolution. 
I could not find it and I was hoping they would change their mind. I really wanted to finish it. Oh, well.
It's still free on Amazon.
(Though I have Prime, so it might not be free to non-Primers.)
(Though I have Prime, so it might not be free to non-Primers.)
I believe all of the "Star Trek" series, including "Voyager," are now on Paramount Plus.
I have to bump this thread just because of these news about Stargate and streaming:
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021...g-all-streaming-services-hulu-netflix-amazon/
Now, imagine if me or someone else would be right in the middle of watching any of the Stargate series and then.........boom! "Sorry, it's not available anymore and we don't know if it ever will be."
That's my main reason for preferring watching series on DVD:s!
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021...g-all-streaming-services-hulu-netflix-amazon/
Now, imagine if me or someone else would be right in the middle of watching any of the Stargate series and then.........boom! "Sorry, it's not available anymore and we don't know if it ever will be."
That's my main reason for preferring watching series on DVD:s!
