Don’t get rid of DVDs and CDs

We still have a DVD player - you can get a film on eBay often for much less than the paid for films on streaming services.

I’m finding more and more that I’m sick of trying to locate tv shows and films across streaming services. Get a notion to watch a film I love: is it on Netflix? Amazon, Apple TV, Paramount, Disney +? By the time I’ve tracked it down, realised that I have to pay for it anyway even though it’s on a streaming service I pay for, if I still had it on DVD I could be half way through it. It’s maddening and I hate it. We never completely got rid of all our dvds and cds but I’m starting to think about the films, shows and music that I really love, and replacing them with actual physical copies. I’m not concerned about the internet going out for a couple of days as I can amuse myself without a screen, but overall streaming services being so arbitrary with what they will provide is a big problem.
i absolutely do watch things I love more than once and would like to be able to continue doing so.

I heard that happy with my tapes though.

You can get it done at Tesco photo counter.

Oh well. I've lived quite happily without those things for decades.

I have about 430 CDs at home - stored in unit which my stereo sits on and a slimline drawer unit in another room. They don't take up much room. When my old stereo broke I got one of those all in one stereos with speakers built in (speakers took too much room) and a hard drive to store my favourite 25 CDs on

Atonement was shot on 35mm so the graininess could be film grain. But I guess it could be that you're used to a higher resolution.

I had a clear out of DVDs and got rid of my Star Trek TNG and Frasier DVDs. I’m starting to regret it now, even though the former is on Netflix and the latter’s on the channel 4 streaming app.

We have a blu ray player, which will play ordinary DVDs as well and make them look better. We don’t want to get rid of it as we have a few home videos on DVD including our wedding, holidays and our late parents.

Atonement, so probably digital. 2007.

Grainy sounds like the filmstock. What film was it?

We watched a film on DVD last night. The picture quality was distractingly grainy…

Well, yes. But you do not 'have' all those things and an outage or a decision to delete material could remove them.

I know the feeling, but I now have empty time to fill, which needs filling. I like A. Christie and re-read them. LOTR not so much these days. Detective novels. G Heyer (DD also a fan and late DH). I keep these - and a lot of Sci-Fi.

Well that was a non-problem!
We watched Our Flag Means Death via the computer instead of the DVD player a few months ago and somebody put the audio jack back in the wrong socket.
So now we have 2 functioning DVD players. I found another one languishing in DD’s bedroom that connects by SCART (ancient device not many people know about🤣). Ready for a summer holiday video fest.

They are on an external hard drive and then copied to a flash drive to watch on tv. I keep a copy of the ISO on the cloud too just because. I also have them converted to MP4 and can stream from google drive to infuse player to watch on the iPad without taking up space on the iPad (obviously this only works online). It works for me!

The cloud is not a back-up and cannot be used as such. If you want something to be real it needs three places: a hard-drive, an external hard-drive, a usb, also a hard copy i.e. a CD or DVD is safest.

I’m not going to have a load of dvds/cds, ‘just in case’. If we all did that with everything, we’d all end up with a house full of stuff that is hardly used. We don’t even have anything to play them on anyway and don’t know anyone who does.

We’ve very rarely had an issue with our internet going down. When it has, we just do something else.

I don't tend to rewatch many things, except a few favorites and Christmas movies. But the ones I do like to rewatch, I have the DVD's backed up on an external hard drive (also copied to cloud storage).

I don’t really have time. Full time job, 3 kids (one disabled and requiring a lot of extra care), housework, studying, exercise… there isn’t really any time left to watch TV. I don’t have time to watch new things, let alone rewatch old stuff. Having said that, I’ve read Little Women about 15 times in the past 25 years!

I had all mine transferred from video.

Some of it I suppose is probably considered modern literature? Maybe not. But I will reread all my H G Wells, LOTR, some Agatha Christie ...

I spend way more hours at work/commuting than anything else, then add in exercise, cooking, eating and household chores - I don't have hours and hours to fill! Maybe an hour a day 🤔

I'm not a hoarder honest..
..but have kept my favourite Vinyl, tapes, CDs, Videos and DVDs..
Bloody hilarious considering ive nothing to play them on!
DS1 has already raided the vinyl (bar a 12" i wouldnt let him have) and tapes, and you never know one day he might want to raid the rest..
Meanwhile i just like knowing i still have them.

I’m glad you posted this OP
I’ve lugged my 80’s DVD collection and uk player half way across the world in storage boxes and contemplating getting rid of it from invisible modern peer pressure that exists only in my head (I still reminisce over some of my 70’s childhood) to fully join the 21st century which I now hear I’m a few years late for.

Thanks to your advice/post I will embrace this sentimental quirky box of history and my reasoning.

Streaming doesn’t last, what they make available can and does disappear, pay plans change or are suddenly created for previous free services, and internets goes down, as OP and Others have pointed out.

Contemporarily it was/is easy to feel like I’m dragging one foot in the past by not leaping to embrace this Brave New World while unintentionally hiding my DVD collection in a storage box for “That Time” the sky falls down, but this Chickenliken is now bustling up her feathers and not fearing other’s eyebrow raises, as she readies herself for a DVD reawakening!

I will no longer make excuses like “I’ve kept my CD’s but I don’t have an underground bunker honest!”
I will proudly, boldly go where my world feels old, quaint, and safe more importantly!
cheers OP

Yes but you get the ability play CDs and DVDs for free in with the console if you are buying it for gaming anyway.

Plus the modern ones will play 4K and blu ray as well. A stand alone 4K player is actually quite expensive.