Perhaps I am an acquired taste at best. I know I can ruffle feathers occasionally, but it is a capability shared by more than just a few of us here. Across all of the threads that I have posted in, the number of members with which I have had direct confrontations are in single digits. I have never been suspended in my seven years as a member; knock on wood as they say.
Just as when I am wrong about something, I want to be corrected. I have no desire to persist in folly. Similarly, when I misbehave, I should be chastised for it. I am a work in progress; criticism, even when not entirely constructive, advances that cause.
I have experienced streaming, even in 4K. My internet can be stable for up to three month intervals and I have used Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Youtube as my streaming sources. I have 98 titles with Movies Anywhere, too. I still plan to try out Vudu for rentals. While disc is no doubt my clear preference, I have enough experience with streaming to contrast and compare the two.
While I can respect your feelings about this thread and the frustration you have with it, I think you overstate the problems. I visit other threads and they all veer off topic, but they also course correct and return to the topic after their little excursions.
As for the conversation going stale, that could be in part due to the fact that there are just not that many ways to feel about the thread topic. People are predominately pro physical media, pro-digital/ streaming, or they prefer a ratio of both. The reasons for each preference do not vary much. We have all read them; the forum member posting their reasons changes more than the reasons themselves do. It just isn't that nuanced of a topic; we each have our preference coming into this thread and I suspect it as the same preference after having visited it.
I have frequented truly venomous threads on this website, such as with the announcement for the blu-ray release of
Bowling For Columbine. The thread about that film was locked down multiple times a day for several days and some members posting there were suspended while others were even banned. I have not seen anything even remotely that hostile occurring in this thread. I have not seen suspensions or banishments being handed down here. They fall like rain in some threads.
I have in the past encouraged people with opposing views to post more often. I have specifically encouraged and welcomed the return to this thread that particular forum member with whom I have recently been engaged with in a disagreement. Do you think he would have done the same? Maybe, there is no way to know. I like reading different points of view. I have even learned some things from them. I broadened my experiments with streaming services as one such result.
I am reminded of an old short poem:
[Show spoiler]Once where a prophet in the palm shade basked
A traveller chanced at noon to rest his miles
"What sort of people may they be," he asked
"In this proud city on the plain o'erspread?"
"Well, friend, what sort of people whence you came?"
"What sort?" the pack man scowled; "why, knaves and fools."
"You'll find the people here the same," the wise man said.
Another stranger in the dusk drew near,
And pausing cried, "What sort of people here
In your bright city where yon towers arise?"
"Well, friend, what sort of people whence you came?"
"What sort?" the pilgrim smiled,
"Good, true, and wise."
"You'll find the people here the same."
The wise man said.
from: The Right Kind Of People by Edwin Markham