Your Friends May Not Always Be There for You

I see that lots of people are very angry that Netflix does not have Friends anymore.  Universal TV did not renew with Netflix so they can put it on the new Peacock streaming service that starts sometime this year.  So right now you cannot watch Friends anywhere except for occasional episodes on TBS.  If you have the DVD or Blu Ray sets you can watch them anytime and do not have to pay anything again for something you have already bought.  

With all these streaming services we are at their mercy so it may be time to get acquainted with your physical media again so you are not paying a subscription fee to every service out there, that can get quite pricey.  I am already planning to turn off Disney+ in a few days because I watched The Madalorian and the few others things I wanted to on there.  I have all the Marvel and Stars Wars stuff on blu already plus they will look and sound better on disc compared to streaming anyway and they will be unedited like Lucas did to A New Hope, again.  I will go back to it at some point.  So the lesson here is if you subscribe to a service for a particular show or movies they may not always have them.  But you can own them on disc so do not get rid of all your discs and pick up some stuff now before it may be out of print.  

 By the way, the Friends box sets are back in stock on Amazon after being sold out all last week.  Also, I am NOT a fan of this show I just thought it presented a good lesson on the future of streaming services.  Keep spinning those discs!