New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation
Blue-Rays and DVDs aren&#x27;t replaceable by streaming services. The key distinction is that specific videos disappear from streaming services at any time - there are no guarantees. I pay for a number of streaming services, and yet every month things I <i>used</i> to be able to see have disappeared from those services.<p>If you just &quot;want to watch something&quot; but don&#x27;t care exactly what it is, a streaming service is <i>great</i>.<p>However, if you want to watch a <i>particular</i> movie&#x2F;show repeatedly, then you want a Blue-Ray or DVD, <i>not</i> a streaming service. No streaming service will guarantee you endless future access to a particular video, and that makes them distinctly different. Buying and downloading a file would also work in theory, but in most cases you can&#x27;t legally buy a video file, you can only lease video files for a specific device for a finite indefinite time. So while that&#x27;s an option that <i>should</i> exist, in practice it usually doesn&#x27;t, so disks are the only thing <i>legally</i> available for those who want continuous access.<p>When I want to watch the a particular show, I want to watch <i>that</i>. Not a random show that may or may not be on a streaming service I&#x27;m paying for. The show may not be on <i>any</i> streaming service available to me at a particular point in time. Of course, I could always go to a pirate site and get access to practically everything, but while that&#x27;s probably more convenient, I&#x27;m trying to do things legally.<p>I think it&#x27;s fraudulent for vendors to say that you &quot;buy&quot; a video when you don&#x27;t get to keep it permanently, but it does happen. What&#x27;s worse, that fraudulent misuse of the word &quot;buy&quot; confuses some people into mistakenly thinking that disks (like Blue-Rays and DVDs) can be replaced by streaming services. Yes, they have similar purposes, but they are <i>not</i> interchangeable.