Benefits Of Internet Streaming

Internet Streaming services allow T.V. shows and movies to be played over the internet. They have started to emerge over the past decade as the new dominant form of watching movies and T.V. shows. Streaming has replaced most of the traditional ways of watching movies, like going out and renting, and even movie releases. Streaming services have started releasing movies soon after theatre release, and even side by side with some theatre releases. Streaming Services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu among others, charge low monthly fees for hundreds of hours of content that is updated regularly. They make it convenient to watch at home off of most devices, if you don 't mind the slight lower quality of streams compared to blu-ray. Ever since services like Netflix have come out rental services have been on …show more content…
quality. The limitations of streaming quality include lower resolutions, like downgrading from 1080 to 720,and that 's only if you can load 720. The quality can become even worse if you have internet with restricted or low bandwidth, or isn 't fast enough to stream, which is fairly intensive(Gould). On the topic of internet, if your internet ever goes out you will not be able to stream, which could be a problem for some. A second con of streaming is if you are looking for a specific title that is obscure, or foreign, odds are that you are going to have to find a different way to rent it. While the combined libraries of these services are large they are predominantly mainstream movies for the masses. Third off, if you are a collector you most likely want to own the disc and case, obviously streaming doesn’t include owning the discs. Lastly, Streaming offers no forms of watching live T.V. yet. So there is no watching the game, or your favorite series live as it comes on, you’ll have to wait for it to be added