I haven’t had cable in over twenty years; it just didn’t work out price-wise for me and what I wanted to watch, which is lots of movies, a few TV series that proved popular enough to com out for home viewing, and zilch sports. I got disk-Netflix when I got a DVD player and the rental brick-and-mortars started collapsing. Between that and the disks I’d bought, I had plenty to fill my viewing hours. It did mean for popular TV programs like Game of Thrones and Walking Dead I had to wait a year later than everybody else was talking about it and studiously avoid spoilers. It worked because theRed Weddingwas as shocking to us as it was a year before.
Now I have both streaming and disk Netflix; I’d noticed less than one in eight movies in my queue was streamable when I was contemplating the upgrade. Disks are still mostly movies; streaming is mostly older TV shows (They have every Star Trek ep. available, I think) and documentaries, which are harder to find on disk. GoT I still have to wait for the disk to come out because HBO isn’t letting stream (on Netflix, at least). It’s handy for the TV eps because I don’t have to wait for the disks to travel back and forth when I want to binge.