I wonder how much bandwidth they could save by caching the movies... Disney movies tend to be repeat watched by youngsters. Of course a lot of the streaming hardware doesn't support this.
By the time we are caching movies on clients, it’s almost like we’ve reinvented the Blu-ray disc and the original Netflix mailers in my opinion… without physical media or ownership, but otherwise, not far off…
Because what is a physical disc? It’s basically a cache, physically delivered, but you purchase it once and it’s yours. Don’t want to purchase? Netflix will rotate discs back and forth by mail.
Such a system would be the same thing - just more expensive, less private, no ownership option, and without the physical disc or mailing time…
I don’t know. I get that it’s more convenient than the old system but seems like a downgrade in almost every other respect. Less ownership, less privacy, worse selection (how many streaming services needed?), quite possibly worse for the environment (discs break even with streaming after ~4 plays and last an average of 16 rentals, and far more than that when frequently watched in a home)…
