Don’t get rid of DVDs and CDs

Yeah or put in adverts so the whole point of streaming is a lie.

it’s not just a few days with no internet that is a problem. streaming services can also just remove content (actually happened to a few very old fairytale movies i had watched) or editing scenes out if they find them problematic.

I barely watch TV/films etc so am a bit surprised people are so aghast at the idea of not being able to watch exactly what they want, when they want.

But it isn't just a matter of a few days not watching anything. I can't find anything on TV to watch at all. So I watch DVDs then take them to the charity shop.

Can you not just go a few days without watching anything? I just wouldn't want to hang on to loads of CDs and DVDs on the off chance my internet is down one day. And I think the only place i could watch/listen would be in my car.

I cancelled my streaming services last year because I was sick of paying for a poor selection of films and series. It might be because of the country i am living in, but I found the content on Netflix in particular was becoming more and more boring and I was struggling to find things I actually wanted to watch. There was little I wanted to watch on prime too and so many films I might have wanted to see had to be paid for. So I binned them and started going through my DVD collection and revisiting old favourites. And since then I've also started buying DVDs from an online second-hand shop. I've had lots of great things from there and they usually cost 2-3 Euros per DVD.

I won't be getting rid of them. I don't want streaming companies deciding what I can and can't watch; finding a film I like is unavailable because someone in it has been 'cancelled' and so on.

We also keep CDs and DVDs - we use DVDs in our caravan if we can’t get a good tv signal. Plus what you say is true, you can’t always rely on the internet.

My last 2 cars had no CD slot. I brought an older car to tide us over for a couple of years til the kids were older. My horror when I realised after buying that it has a CD slot and no Bluetooth to play music through. I factory reset the radio the other day and realised how weird silent driving is - I still haven't brought any CDs. Off the eBay...

We've taken 100+ DVDs to various charity shops this week, and the rest will go next week. But we ARE keeping a few (30 max) we really like and most are films that seldom appear on streaming services for emergencies as we had 5 days with no internet earlier this year after a rodent bit through the fibre line in the street outside our house. So yes, you need 'Plan B'!!

We have the Jeeves and Wooster DVDs with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. They are not available to stream.

I do agree about saving things for a rainy day, I hang onto books for this reason, I imagine a lights-out scenario where at least I could still read by candle light! I am an avid reader and would be sad not to have a book on the go. However it's nice to watch things once in a while so I hang onto DVDs I enjoyed.

Most box sets I am happy to donate once seen, but there are some I keep "just in case" mine are Frasier, Father Ted, and loads of classic black and white movies.

I still have all of mine. I did downsize my DVD collection by about half recently, and plan to do the same with CDs soon. But many of my favourite movies aren’t available on streaming services, and many DVDs have good extras, so I wanted to keep them.

Being very old I have a selection of those DVDs that used to be given free with the Sunday papers! Some are stuff you'd never get on streaming services etc.. I watched the first Bridgerton series and couldn't decide why the mother looked familiar, found out she'd been Colin Firth's love interest in Fever Pitch that I'd watched the previous day.

Don't worry I won't. I don't understand why anyone doesn't keep them. We use them daily and I'm picking up loads I didn't have free at the moment.

Ereaders are less of an issue because the battery lasts at least a month between charges.

I watched recent DVDs on PS4 console.

DH says the same as yourself OP. We have crates of DVDs up our loft and have started watching them again . Some films you have to pay for as you rightly say, and others get streamed for a limited time.

I was watching Life is Beautiful the other day, and also It's a Wonderful Life.

I've kept a few dvds for sentimental reasons, mostly those I bought when living abroad. But it's pointless as I've nothing to play them on.

I'd like to add "physical books" to that. With the advent of eReaders, so many people are no longer buying them. I live in a hurricane-prone area of the USA, and have gone without power for up to 10 days post-hurricane. Thank GOODNESS I have kept my physical books!

and a microphone?

couldn't resist.

100% agree. DH and I have around 1500 DVDs, and 1000 CDs, and also 500 vinyl albums, and 600 vinyl singles. (Vinyl from late 1960s to early 1990s.) Hell will freeze over before we get rid of them. As you say, when the internet goes down, you can't stream anything!

ALSO, we have some films and TV series(s) that was out in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and noughties, and they are the original 'cut.' (Before the wokierati got hold of it, and took stuff out that is so extremely offensive to their delicate little eyes and ears! 🙄)

SO much is cut of of things made pre 2011-ish (when it's streamed now,) that it renders much of it unwatchable. It often makes no sense.

You reckon there would be power in that situation? If the internet goes, it’ll be because power goes.

In the rare eventuality the internet goes down I’ll read a book. Don’t need to own something physical that I’ll watch a handful of times if that. DVDs use up precious resources and end up in landfill for 100s of years.

Thanks for the reminder! In a weird kind of way I feel like this is prepping for future chaos. The same reason I’ll be buying a fancy water filter, I’ll also stash some dvds (and rebuy a dvd player) incase of going back in time due to WW3 - if we survive.

I still have all my CDs and my LPs and my DVDS and videos.

Plus two turntables.