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Originally Posted by sedated
It's my understanding that Netflix has slowly been gouged when it comes to price for access to movies, or timing of access (signs on Redbox started to show up saying "30 days before Netflix!" a while back). Netflix found it's cheaper and easier to create their own content, something HBO figured out a while back.
I think there is also a difference between streaming options and DVD options. A lot more titles are available through the old mail service (assuming that even exists anymore).
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Content owners have been jacking up the price that Netflix has to pay.
I had Netflix DVD/mail until fairly recently in order to watch older and foreign films that were only on DVD. Netflix is not replacing those DVDs. So once all of the copies of a given film break, get lost, or too scratched, that title is no longer available.
Ten years ago almost any obscure title that I came across was available on Netflix. It was really remarkable. Today, not so much.