Have remote downloading video services really improved things for the consumer?
Although Block Buster and other video clubs are today considered relics of the past and obsolete let us now consider what I used to be able to watch when video renting was far more decentralized.
Netflix is another choice. I don't fault Netflix for the failure of Video Clubs. It has more to do with choices people make and sky-rocketing rent prices.
What About Selection?
I went looking for classic movies on Netflix: No Star Wars, No James Bond, No Indiana Jones, No Pirates of the Carabean, The Lord of the Rings, No E.T. No Terminator, or Terminator III. No Dumbo. No The Maltease Falcon. No King Kong. No Brazil and no 12 Monkeys.
There was however some limited movies including Terminator Genesys, Gremilines, Transformers (and Revenge of the Fallen, Dark Side of the Moon, Age of Extinction,The Last Knight, Bumble Bee, Rise of the Beasts), Seven Years In Tibet, Patch Adams, and The Walk.
Netflix has a wide selection of movies and television series to watch but there are some videos that are oddly absent from it. It's not the video-club we used to have. I sometimes miss the old video club.