# Anybody still collect and play DVD's? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 19, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221 "2022-07-19T20:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/21 "2022-07-20T02:03:27Z")
I do. In fact, I just bought a collection of Scooby Doo episodes on Amazon Prime Day. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/22 "2022-07-20T02:05:39Z")
I still buy 4K Blu-rays for films I know I will rewatch because I’m fairly certain you won’t be able to fully appreciate a 4K movie through streaming alone. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/23 "2022-07-20T02:07:16Z")
Sure. Though I don’t watch a lot of video. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/24 "2022-07-20T02:30:11Z")
My most recent DVD purchase was all 4 seasons of China Beach. Haven’t watched this show since it first aired. It holds up quite well. Amazing cast. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/25 "2022-07-20T02:37:46Z")
Dear God. I don’t know how I managed to parse the title as “anybody still collect and play CDs”… brainfart. Ermm, DVDs instead… I have a couple boxes but I haven’t added to them in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/26 "2022-07-20T02:40:44Z")
Yeah, I recently picked up the Nightmare on Elm Street 8-Disc Collection for twenty bucks. A few months earlier, I got 11:14 because I wanted to watch it with the Beloved, but it wasn’t on any of our streaming services. In fact, I recently cleared out the bookcase in the living room of various bits and bobs, and I moved my entire DVD collection there so that I wouldn’t have to go fetch a movie from another room. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/27 "2022-07-20T02:54:11Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > My husband has a strong preference for owning physical media where possible. This is me. Partly it’s because my taste is outside the mainstream, non-American and older titles. Good luck finding _Warlock_ starring Henry Fonda, f’rinstance, on any normal streaming service. But also it’s partly because I’m not in the US; international media access is a frustrating hodgepodge due to the way the distributors license exhibition on a territory-by-territory basis. Example: The kids were starting to watch the Harry Potter movies. A month ago, they were available via both Netflix (international) and Amazon Prime. As of last week, they are now no longer on either, probably because WB wants to pull them back as an HBO Max exclusive. And HBO Max isn’t yet available in my country. So, fuck it, gotta get the discs to avoid the Russian Roulette game of giant media corporations having pissing matches with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/28 "2022-07-20T03:11:42Z")
I am still buying discs. I do like physically having the media. I go to the local mall on Tuesday after work as it is new release day as well as Taco Tuesday. Always get a bag of tacos, but often not a movie or series box set. Depends on what has come out that Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/29 "2022-07-20T03:21:50Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Good luck finding _Warlock_ starring Henry Fonda, f’rinstance, on any normal streaming service. Maybe you can’t get these in your country, but in the US “Warlock” is listed as streaming on Tubi, the Roku Channel and STARZ. Tubi and The Roku Channel are both free services. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/30 "2022-07-20T03:26:52Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > Speaking of the library, many library systems have access to streaming services for their members where you can “check out” streaming movies and such and watch at home. Services like [https://www.hoopladigital.com](https://www.hoopladigital.com) and [https://www.kanopy.com](https://www.kanopy.com) may be available for card holders. Thanks for the reminder! I have Kanopy on my Roku, but I couldn’t use it because I had lost my library card. I recently got a new card, so I’ll have to check it out soon. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/31 "2022-07-20T03:51:49Z")
I have a collection of physical media. As much as streaming services have improved, their collective “legacy” selection leaves quite a bit to be desired and is chaotically scattered. Way too many good, old movies aren’t available, or cost as much to rent for 24 hours as it does to buy a disc. (🎵 They can’t take that away from me 🎶) New releases? I have to really love it. I bought a Blu-ray of _Everything Everywhere All At Once_ because I want to contribute to the production of films like that (I already paid to see it in a theater). I also have a small collection of VHS tapes that my son watches on an old Panasonic TV/VCR. It’s like my parents old record player. I just hung some shelves to hold them, but it’s too high for him to reach, oops. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/32 "2022-07-20T04:11:04Z")
We live in a very rural of Ohio, and our connection is too slow for streaming. So I buy our movies on DVD or preferably Blu-ray. I have about a thousand now. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/33 "2022-07-20T06:43:44Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > in the US “Warlock” is listed as streaming Cool! Y’all should watch it, it’s a great, seriously offbeat Western. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/34 "2022-07-20T15:08:15Z")
We have a number of DVDs or Blu-Rays of favorite motion pictures - Classics and more recent movies we like - that we watch on occasion. Used to be that Big Lots had hundreds of them for a dollar or two, and we’d buy one if it looked interesting, watch it once and probably never watch it again. We have a lot of those and will probably donate them to the library. Big Lots still has them, but they upped the price to a point that they’re not worth buying just for one viewing. I’m concerned that disc players will go the way of VCRs in the next few years, and we’ll all be stuck with DVDs and Blu-Rays that we can’t watch. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/35 "2022-07-20T16:25:31Z")
I have about 200 - movies and tv series (box sets) I put them all in ‘wallets’ so they don’t take up so much space. The idea of just having them is enough for me, though I seldom play them on the DVD player. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/36 "2022-07-20T16:25:37Z")
If any y’all disc only people have any streaming redemption slips laying around, I’ll give you a buck for any I don’t have. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/37 "2022-07-20T16:42:44Z")
I have a reasonably small collection of DVDs, mostly stuff we got before streaming or stuff I like to rewatch, like the remastered Star Trek TOS or 2001. I just quit Netflix DVDs. They had a lot of old movies not on streaming, but they seem to have stopped replacing lost of damaged discs, so I have about 16 things on my queue that have been on for years. Not enough that I want to watch that is available to make it worthwhile. I’d buy more but the used DVD place is out of business, and there is basically nothing I care enough about to order from Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/38 "2022-07-20T16:43:35Z")
If I can’t get a digital version with all the bonus features then yes. Disney+ often includes bonus features for the Marvel movies as well, so I don’t automatically by those anymore. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/39 "2022-07-20T16:57:24Z")
I’m going to go against the grain of this thread. I didn’t even collect DVDs back when they were my primary way of watching movies. There are very few movies I have any desire to watch more than once. If I’m going to have a “movie night” I’d rather watch a new movie I haven’t seen yet. And because of that I don’t have any need to own movies. That’s why I love streaming. No longer to I have to spend time driving over to the video store to pick up a movie. And then spend more time driving back to the video store to return it. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221/40 "2022-07-20T17:18:53Z")
There are hundreds of great movies I want to see on a (ir)regular basis, meaning every couple years, or five. The movie experience and impact is hugely dependent on the mental place one inhabits while watching it. Many already-seen films feel almost like new releases, because of this. Still, I have only a small handful of DVD’s, and haven’t gotten anything new in years and years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-still-collect-and-play-dvds/968221.md?page=3)