The rise of streaming gave us access and convenienceābut it lost the ritual, ownership, and rewatch culture that made VHS/DVD magical. Itās hurting audiences and the industry.
In episode 2 of season 3 of Fused Filmāthe podcast where the fans speak. Host, Kevin Coll, unpacks one of the biggest shifts in movie history: how streaming became our new VHS... but somehow lost its soul.
Remember the ritual of walking into Blockbuster, grabbing a candy, arguing over what to rent? Today, we hit "play" on Netflix... and forget half of what we watched.
But this isnāt just nostalgia. Itās economics. Itās behavior. Itās about how an industry pivotedāfrom rewatchable magic to algorithmic noiseāand why that shift could be costing more than we think.
Letās rewind.