As of the current date, a The lack of a Blu-ray release creates a "quality ceiling" for consumers.
Color Accuracy: Deep blacks and vibrant hues without the "washed out" look of low-bitrate streams.
While many viewers settle for compressed streams on platforms like Hulu or Disney+, these versions often suffer from "banding" in flat colors and "mosquito noise" around sharp line art. In an animated show like Family Guy, where the visual style relies on clean lines and saturated primary colors, compression artifacts can be incredibly distracting.
But for the serious media collector—the one running a Plex server with RAID storage and a dedicated Nvidia Shield Pro—completionism is the goal. And right now, Season 16 (2017-2018) presents a unique problem.