Services like Netflix and Hulu stockpile streaming content like a doomsday prepper stockpiling toilet paper and canned goods, and the subscription payment plan is something you commit to paying even before you choose to watch anything.
As a result of these differences, it sometimes becomes easier for a consumer to justify staying in and watching home entertainment than gambling money on a single big-budget blockbuster that he or she might not even enjoy.
Think about how much easier it is to sit at home and binge-watch that eleven season show (you always said you were going to watch all of Frasier, remember?) instead of getting dressed, driving out and spending money on a movie ticket.