“Active”, no. I have a substantial collection and I do buy a disc (blu-ray preferred) once in a blue moon when I get a yen to watch something old that isn’t easily available for streaming. But not often. I’m probably approaching 98+% steaming at this point. Between all my assorted service subscriptions and cable, I have an enormous amount of content available. Buying additional physical media is basically just an unnecessary indulgence these days. But I do believe in the occasional unnecessary indulgence, so there you go.
I still use my Denon cartridge cd player. The cartridges hold 6 cds.
I’ve used them since the 90’s. I bought 8 cartridges. A big expense in the 90’s.
That’s over 4 hours of music. Takes about 20 seconds to change cd’s.
Great setup until mp3’s emerged.
I have a large collection of DVDs.
One reason is that many of the things I want are special versions, or things it’s hard to find by streaming
Silent movies (especially the Restored Versions of films like Metropolis, The Lost World, The Phantom of the Opera)
3D movies in anaglyphic format (I actually have quite a few of these)
Special editions/Director’s Cut of certain movies (Lord of the Rings, Aliens, Terminator 2, Superman 2, etc.)
Hard-to-find films (Quatermass trilogy and the TV serials, BBC version of Day of the Triffids, The Lathe of Heaven)
Humorous movies, especially of the MST3K type (MST3K collection, The Film Crew, Zacherley’s Horrible Horror, Rifftrax editions, The Star Wars Holiday Special)
Hard-to-find documentaries (Connections, The Day the Universe Changed)
Disney Stuff that might disappear at any time (especially sensitive things like Der Fuhrer’s Face, Song of the South, but also standard movies and cartoons like Fantasia)
Unusual Series (The Prisoner, A&E’s Nero Wolfe)
Unusual movies (Metamorphoses/the Winds of change, Ilya Mouromets, The Japanese versions of Gojira and Rodan)
and Stuff I’m too Lazy to try to find
Was that ever released on DVD? I thought it was just VHS and those are nearly impossible to find and valuable.
It available on Amazon.
Thanks. I have no idea why I didn’t check.
This is apparently a bootleg and probably not legal (not that I care). It’s not an official Disney release.
Just realized this is movie dvds.
I learned my painful lesson with Laser disc. I invested heavily in a movie collection I could pass on. Had over 120. I don’t want to think about the thousands I stupidly spent. I practically gave my collection away at a few dollars a disc.
I have maybe a dozen movie dvds. My desire to collect is gone. I do stream movies and enjoy them.
I have a cheap 8 year old dvd player. I it got on Sale at Best Buy for under $75. It still has rca plug connection instead of HDMI.
Yes, but I know I’m unusual. I don’t buy nearly as many as I used to but I still get new ones (including Blu-ray) from time to time. When I want to watch something from my collection, I know exactly where it is. And I have the non-special edition original Star Wars trilogy on DVD, so of course I’m going to keep a DVD player around for a good long time.
I still have a Blu-Ray player in a closet. I used it with my dumb flat screen tv to provide the smarts even though it hadn’t been used to play a disc for years. Then it wouldn’t work with Prime anymore so it was replaced with a Firestick. Now I have a smart tv so I gave the Firestick to a friend. It doesn’t take up too much space so I’ll hold on to it but odds are it’ll never get used again.
DH and I bought it on DVD a while back via Amazon. Probably not an official release, but we were both interested in what all the shrieking was about.
I have hundreds, maybe thousands of DVDs and blu-rays, and just bought a half-dozen more serieses. I have more than that still unwatched. I never stream anything - last time I tried, half a decade ago or more, there were playback issues, it messed with the intros and closings, and the subtitles didn’t synchronize. But more importantly than that, I just wasn’t watching it. I’d rather watch the stuff I already own then browse through whatever some streaming service wants to offer me this week. So after paying for it and watching literally nothing for almost a year I canceled the service and have never missed it.
I had hundreds of DVDs and BluRay Discs and donated them all to a local long-term care facility in my small town. They were highly grateful someone bothered to think of them. Now they have enough movies to show one each night for a year at least.
Some series don’t seem to be available for streaming without edits. Six Million Dollar Man, Night Stalker…
My sister said when they went to tourist attractions in the South about 10 years ago they saw the bootleg Song of the South DVDs at lots of the souvenir shops.
My copy is dubbed from a (legitimate) VHS release.
IIRC, it’s available on overseas DVDs that use a different standard.
I have definitely slowed down but I still buy Blu Rays. I don’t one hundred percent trust that the titles I want will always be available to me on streaming so I still buy some on physical media.
I have old DVDs which I have no intention of getting rid of anytime soon. It is quite nice when there is nothing to do on a gloomy day to play some old movie that I haven’t seen in so many years. Particularly with family around who haven’t seen it before and wouldn’t go out of their way to watch it on their own.
As a matter of fact during the lockdown one thing I decided to do was find old movies that are available for download online and burn it onto a DVD. Then insert into the DVD player and play on the big screen TV. The movies I’m talking about are black and white era stuff. Usually mystery but there are some good old-school science fiction stories and dramas that explore social life of that era (like Lease of Life as an example). While I was working from home I would have the download/burn process running in the background and then for the night sit back and enjoy the movie with family.
There’s stuff not available on streaming, at least in the US. So for that, I still buy DVDs.
Last DVDs I bought was about a year or so ago. I had heard a lot of good things about The Americans but it wasn’t available on the three streaming services I had and was afraid that if I signed up for another streaming service I wouldn’t cancel it after watching the series and just let it go on and on. I went to Amazon and the whole series box set was only 25 bucks so I went that way. Worth it!
I have a good sized collection of DVDs but rarely watch them a second time. Lots of them are music and concert videos. Also, lots of obscure, MST3K worthy “B” movies that are impossible to find online. Fun to watch once but don’t hold up to repeated viewings.