One underutilized strategy for media consumption is literally just buying what you want on eBay. You can get Blu-Rays for nearly any film >7-8 years old for just a few dollars! Any time I think of a film I want to add to my "watch list" I pull it up on eBay and if the price is right I buy it then and there. Now I have a huge backlog of unwatched film/TV that I can pull up at any time.
This puts the power back into your own hands; Blu-Rays are likely to work for a very long time and your discs won't magically disappear from your personal catalogue. You lock-in on the price at purchase, and it never increases over time. And, in my own subjective opinion, the image quality of Blu-Ray video often exceeds whatever streaming-optimized encoding format is used by the online services.
Finally, 90% of the time I check only eBay instead of shopping multiple platforms. The remaining 10% I go to Amazon and if I don't find the right price there than I just shrug: there's plenty of other cinema to watch and there's rarely any single film that I simply can't do without.
This puts the power back into your own hands; Blu-Rays are likely to work for a very long time and your discs won't magically disappear from your personal catalogue. You lock-in on the price at purchase, and it never increases over time. And, in my own subjective opinion, the image quality of Blu-Ray video often exceeds whatever streaming-optimized encoding format is used by the online services.
Finally, 90% of the time I check only eBay instead of shopping multiple platforms. The remaining 10% I go to Amazon and if I don't find the right price there than I just shrug: there's plenty of other cinema to watch and there's rarely any single film that I simply can't do without.