We’ve all felt the pain of heading to a streaming service, with the intention of watching a movie or TV show and finding that it’s vanished from the catalogue. Worse, you were part way through your watch and have to find another way to finish everything off. Sometimes that means you have to head to another premium streaming service, but for others that show might disappear indefinitely — either for rights reasons or something else.
The worst time this happened to me was mid-way through season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. I paused halfway through an episode because it was getting late, only to return the next day and find that the show had gone — and several months later it still isn’t available to stream anywhere else. In times like this it makes me glad that physical media does still exist, and that I have a healthy collection of discs.
