Have you gone DVD free?

[DrowningInThings]

DH wants to...but we have loads of old e.g. BBC dramas on dvd which I do like to watch every now and again. I can't find them to buy online. One I found on Apple TV but when I clicked on it to see how much it cost, it took me to Amazon prime. Which we don't subscribe to. Is there a way of buying a film (not renting it like you do with kindle purchases) or tv series without having to subscribe to all the different steaming services? We already have Netflix.

and also, how often has everything gone down. I actually have never had this happen.I’ve had my sky not working for a day once, I just watched something else on Netflix. And my whole internet has gone off for maybe 10 mins at a time sometimes. If it does go down for longer, I think I would survive. The extra clutter of a million dvds is just not something I personally need/want

It's been many years since we had DVDs, although I think we could play them through an Xbox we have if we wanted to. They're obsolete. If someone 'switches off the internet', the least of my worries would be what I'm going to watch.

No, because streaming sites have ads, don’t always have what you want to watch anywhere, or you have to pay to rent extra stuff. Many people are moving back to dvds.

We love our dvds. Great for holidays where no signal, having dedicated "movie" family sessions. And no subscription required. Buy from charity shops (or have already).

Often watch a DVD from a pretty extensive collection.

Dh had hundreds of dvds and cds and got rid of (sold) all but a handful that are special eg signed, or unusual. I kept some of my favourites. We have Netflix and prime but it still seems like every time we think of a film we'd like to watch it's not available. It's really annoying when it's a film I know we used to own. I feel justified in keeping my Friends boxset as it is now going from Netflix.

100% agree. People will realise you're right......... eventually....

Clearly, you are not much of a film fan/film buff.

Some of us are.

Lucky you, only losing your internet for 10 minutes.

We have lost ours for a few days, quite a number of times. We live in the sticks, and high up, and high winds often knock out our internet. As do storms.... Probably going to lose it in the next few days with the huge storm that's coming.

Fine if that never happens to you though. You keep relying on streaming.... I'll keep my 1200 DVDs though ta.

I've kept all mine. Not everything is on the internet. To be fair, mine are in the back room as they are far from decorative. Unlike books.

This makes me feel so fucking old. I’m 38. Holy fuck.

I like to move with the times as much as possible so I don’t think I’ve owned a DVD in close to two decades

I keep most of the DVDs in a cupboard in the spare room so they are not cluttering up downstairs, the DVD players sit with the Sky boxes and Apple TV boxes so not in the way.

Yes, my 18 and 21 year olds always ask for DVDs for birthday/Christmas (and my 21 year old just graduated in film making!)

And my 15 year old asked for a portable dvd player with screen for Christmas.
My kids are increasingly trying to unplug from the internet. They recognise how it steals time.

No the opposite. Fed up of wanting to watch a film and the streaming services has removed it. DH and I are rebuying our fave films on DVD/BluRAY so we own them and they can’t edit or stop streaming them.

We’ve actually just dug out our old DVD player and bought a bunch of Disney DVD’s from charity shops and cancelled our Disney+! It’s going to save us so much this year, the kids seem to love it too!

We still have some DVDs which came in handy when the internet went down for 2 days or they would have if we'd known that you need to download the DVD player onto your Xbox it's no longer installed as standard. As you need the internet to download the DVD player it was pretty useless.

The editing and/or censoring is getting ridiculous I really wish I'd kept all our boxed sets

😂😂 hahah! What? 😅

haven’t had a dvd player for years. mo miss

I'm reverting. Not buying masses, but picking up favourite films & TV shows. Problem with digital is that you never own them & amazon sticking adverts into films I've purchased means I don't see the point any more.

I got rid of mine about 15 years ago.

You don’t need to keep them/rewatch them. Some of them I buy from the charity shop, watch and then donate them back again. Cheaper than blockbuster was or buying them digitally.

I still have a DVD player, and quite a few DVDs. I find that recent or blockbuster films are available on multiple streaming sites, but the more obscure ones aren't available on any of them.

I also have a few favourite VHS tapes that I can't bear to get rid of, but no VHS player! If I find one for sale, I may well buy it and store it in the utility room so DH doesn't see it

Sold them all for few quid each back on 2009 my husband predicted it. We made a fair amount of cash and never missed them