Don’t get rid of DVDs and CDs

[notedbiscuits]

I have heard of people getting rid of physical media (DVDs, CDs etc) as they stream everything.

Well my broadband went down yesterday afternoon and it came back on but on a very slow speed. Not fast enough for supporting streaming. The problem is with the exchange and could be down as late as Monday. Since then the internet has gone down again.

Well it’s a good job I have loads of DVDs and CDs.

Then with some streaming services they can remove films and tv series with no or little warning.

Im using my mobile internet to compose the message.

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.

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.

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'!!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I wish my car had a cd player! 😔

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.

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+.

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.

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 😂

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 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 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?

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

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

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.