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> How is it that it can be significantly cheaper to rent the physical disk than to stream the movie once?

The cost to build out the infrastructure to stream movies is tremendous.

Is it somehow cheaper when it's a subscription, and when the set of things you might start streaming isn't "this single thing I just paid for" but "anything in your catalog"? Because they don't just give a discount for that—they give a tremendous discount.

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