Do any of yous still watch dvds

[dotty636]

Just curious as I still see some in shops

I don't watch DVDs because I care about picture quality. I don't watch anything that is not in HD. All the people on this thread who watch them must have small screen sizes (relative to their viewing distance) so the lower resolution isn't apparent. (Although a smaller picture is then itself a reduction in picture quality.) Or maybe they just don't care about picture quality.

Or maybe they just don't care about picture quality.

I don't. I don't really give a shit about it so long as I can see clearly enough and some of the new Ultra HD TVs (Whatever they're called, are too intense for me and make me feel ill/trigger sensory overload)

I think a lot of people probably don't bother about picture quality as the cheaper Netflix offering which many have is only SD, if I am watch a series from the 90s I just expect a poor picture but it wouldn't be any better if it was streamed as that was how it was made

No. We still have loads though because DH still buys into the sunken costs fallacy and won't bin them. We did put the plastic cases in the recycling which freed up a ton of space and kept the LOTR and Game of Thrones sets though. But when we watched LOTR the other month I couldn't believe how crap the quality was compared to streaming (although that might just be our telly/dvd).

We don't buy them any more because they take up space, they use physical resources and the picture quality isn't as good.

Yes. I'm a bit of a technophobe

Yep,

We lived in temporary accommodation for 7 months and had no internet so we were forever raiding the cheap dvd's in Poundland and Cex and have a massive collection. We are in our own home now with internet but still love a good movie night with a dvd, so do the children and when they stay at their grandparents they always take a dvd to take with them.

Yes, picture quality isn't important to me at all, as long as I can see what's going on. Many of my DVDs are older films/TV that pre-date HD so they're never going to be viewable in high resolution, regardless of format.

No, we don't have anything to play them on anymore.

There is really no need to insist on staying on the dark ages!

Oh do wind your neck in!!

Or maybe they just don't care about picture quality.

Or maybe their lives don't revolve around sitting in front of a screen.

To be honest I am not entirely sure about Kindle because when I bought a new tablet I was able to transfer my content (presumably I wouldn't have been able to read them again on my old tablet though). But I still think if Amazon wanted to, it could delete the content remotely. So if I really want a particular book I'd have a paper copy.

There is really no need to insist on staying on the dark ages

Well there is, because of the example I gave above. We don't have Sky Atlantic so if we want to watch Babylon Berlin we've got to wait for the DVD (end of this year I think). Ditto for anything on Netflix or Now TV or any other streaming services we don't have.

Well i have lost a lot of digital music after one of the music shop closed and my computer died.

So yes i prefer to buy CDs and DvDs. If i buy say the new Downton film on amazon prime and the close my subscription i wont be able to access it i think ( happy to be proved wrong of course).

I refuse to pay for subscriptions permanently so i just join when there is something i want to watch.

@Getoff you'd be horrified to hear our family tv is a 24 inch and 15 years old.

The sound quality is far superior to my parents modern one though. Suspect its because the speaker is at the front and no need for extra sound bars.

Yes. I’ve got a few favourite old tv shows that aren’t on the streaming sites. I like to be able to watch them and keep hold of them!

Quite!
And why should I throw away my video player, video tapes, DVD player and DVDs and pay a streaming business monthly to be able watch their limited and changing selection on films, just to make sure I no longer "live in the Dark Ages"?

Yes,I have loads. So much so that when I bought a new tv,I got one with a dvd player built in.
There may come a time when Amzazon Prime,Britbox etc might be unavailable for whatever reason or my broadband might be down or due to rising costs I might decide to drop my streaming sites,so would rather have dvds of my favourite films/tv series - sites can and do change their content every so often.

I like to have the choice.

Our Internet was off for two days last month and I watched some dvds on the mini player. Felt like I was back in the stone age, but quite enjoyed it really.

Got rid of all our DVDs and the player to our local charity shop about four years ago. We stream Disney+ and Netflix. We got rid of Amazon Prime recently because most of the content was rubbish.

We’re watching W1A on a DVD right now.

I've had two books completely disappear off my Kindle! Fortunately, I only use it for ease when travelling and for free books; and my main 'library' is a paper one, but it did underline to me that I don't really own those digital books in the way I own the books on my bookshelf.

We do to watch old things that aren't replayed on tv or streaming sites like The Worst Week Of My Life for example. The Xbox plays them

Our Skoda has an sd card slot, so I have most of my cd collection an itunes library on that. It also has a usb slot so I have a usb stick full of downloaded bootleg concerts. Our last Skoda had the same and that was a 2012 model. As someone else said you can get a device to send your phone music to your radio.

And why should I throw away my video player, video tapes, DVD player and DVDs and pay a streaming business monthly to be able watch their limited and changing selection on films, just to make sure I no longer "live in the Dark Ages"?

Exactly this. I despair of people who think they have to keep up with every technological advance, without bothering to actually think about what they are doing - simply because they can't bear to "live in the Dark Ages".

I even have a film - yes, gasp!, film - camera, and it takes much better photos than either my digital camera or my phone.

I think that watching things on streaming services or on dvds is two different things though. We are not comparing like with like.

At the moment, on streaming services, I’m watching new series that I’ve not seen before, the same with films. If I really like something and possibly want to watch it again, and am worried that it might vanish from streaming, then I might buy it. But I’ve not yet felt the need to watch the same series or film over and over again.