Don’t get rid of DVDs and CDs

Still got video recorder.

If you get rid of it, you can't watch memories from. Years ago, family parties, wedding, Birthdays etc.

I've kept my CDs and still have a car CD player though I rarely use it. Also have kept quite a few DVDs and we do have a DVD player but mostly watch streaming channels - given the wide choice, watching most of the DVDs (most of which are available on online services we subscribe to) doesn't often arise.

But happy to keep them as I have a cupboard they easily fit into. Otherwise I probably wouldn't.

Sorry to be a pain, but 'fiction books'? D'you mean novels, novellas and short stories? Poetry - I rather think that comes under 'non-fiction' for some arcane reason along with myths and legends. Not being objectionable but language suffers from the loss of words.
I have a library - 2k books I would think - I only get rid of technical stuff that is out of date, otherwise they stay on the shelves (unless I am reading them).

And when that goes down? And if it's something you want to keep it needs to be the physical object i.e. a book or a CD or a DVD.

Fair point, we already have them at home. That's actually what I meant for others who have gamers in the home.

DVD players are much, much cheaper than games consoles!

Some fiction books yes and lots of my non-fiction, but not TV. I have one film, which I own on DVD, that I watch over again, but it's seasonal so I wouldn't be watching it in July.

Games consoles like PS4 are useful for watching DVDs on, you don't need to buy a specific DVD player.

This is a bug bear of mine! Paying for streaming service only to find adverts interrupting the viewing.

Definitely agree with others that some films you just can't find on streaming services, or have to pay for. Or they are only free a limited time.

I have all my Audrey Hepburn films on DVD, not getting rid of those!

I keep DVDs of my favourite films, as you can use them whenever, and they have tons of extra content. I love behind the scenes stuff.
Streaming is great, but only as long as you are paying for it.

We stayed in a very rural cottage last year with no WiFi. I booked it intentionally to get everyone off their devices. We took a bunch of our old dvds with us and the dcs loved them.
It was a good break.

I’m a member of a forum that’s dedicated to discussing a particular film, and people post about “new things I noticed on rewatch” all the time. I think with a really well-made movie, you can’t possibly appreciate every part of it the first time around - you were watching Actor 1 and missed the look on Actor 2’s face, or what-have-you.

My late grandmother re-read Jane Eyre every year for decades.

Generally very true, but not if you are disabled and read from 10-14 hours every day...which becomes very possible when the power is down. But yes, generally very true.

i find that too. then again i guess i tend to obsess over something once i like it and want to micro analyse every detail lol

Re reading and watching things usually allows you to see stuff you didn't the first time around.

i am surprised the amount of people that only watch or read something once. do you guys not have a comfort movie/show/book to read/watch if you are feeling a bit down or poorly?

I also very very rarely ever watch or re read anything. There’s so many books to read, why would I want to read one I already know the plot and ending?

I very rarely rewatch, or reread for that matter. Seems like a waste of time when there's a huge amount of other things I'd rather watch or read.

I feel like the only person on this thread that watches a film or programme once, and then never watches, or wants to watch, it again 😂

Suggest you buy one. Streaming services delete things all the time and you may well find that the programmes, films, music etc you love have all gone. Unless it's a physical copy it doesn't exist - this goes for e-books as well.

Me too. I don’t care about power outages, but I care quite a lot about censorship and about titles becoming unavailable. Any film I know I’ll want to watch more than maybe twice, I buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray. There are even a couple streaming-only titles where I bought someone’s used “for your consideration” DVD online (shhhh).

Streaming has become a shitshow, honestly. My husband and I figured that Octonauts would be on Netflix forever because Netflix made three Octonauts movies, but now some of the original episodes are gone. The whole series isn’t available on DVD. We bought almost all of Sofia the First on Amazon, but they wouldn’t let us buy the “backdoor pilot” episodes that set up the premise for Elena of Avalor. Disney quit releasing their kids’ TV shows on DVD because they want to make everyone sign up for Disney+.

100% this. ^ @WilliamButt It's not just a matter of 'can you not go a few days....?' As several posters have said, including me, streaming services take stuff off after a year or two and it's gone. AND they edit/delete bits out if they are not PC/woke enough, or may offend the precious, and the terminally offended. 🙄

Even FRIENDS is butchered to fuckery now. There are SO many bits/funny lines, and 'inappropriate' words that don't suit people these days that have been taken out. Some scenes don't even make sense now. It's fucking ridiculous. FRIENDS is just one example. There are many more. Thankfully, I still have my DVD box sets of FRIENDS from the late noughties that are intact, and don't have half the dialogue taken out because of the wokerati!

So IMO it's essential to get your favourite shows - and films - on DVD. Although anyone trying to do it now, may struggle to get the 'originals' that are unbutchered! Then again, most people who liked old 1980s, 1990s, and noughties things that had 'stuff not suitable for today' in it, have very likely had their DVDs/box sets for some years. Waaaaaay before they were wrecked.

I wish my car had a cd player! 😔

Yes, this is what we have so we can listen to music or podcasts in the car. Sound isn’t great, though!

You can buy a little Bluetooth transmitter that plugs into the 12 V socket. It receives from your phone and transmits to either the aux if there is one or an FM frequency. They're only about £20 or so.