DVD Is still King after 25 yrs

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I'm hanging on to my BR/DVDs. That being said I don't buy a lot of new ones. I buy rare or foreign films on disc these days as they often aren't available on cable or streaming services.
 

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Some of y'all will wish y'all still had physical media when the streaming wars start. I still buy DVDs. Probably won't ever stop
Why? So I can pay $8-20 for one dvd when I could just subscribe to a service with thousands of titles for the same price as one piece of media?


Anyway, only have a DVD player because I have like 5-6 beach body workout programs I ripped to dvd back in the day and the king of queens boxset
 

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Y'all gonna be sorry when you don't have access to movies and have to go download shytty rips. I'll never get off physical media.
I’m sorry, is amazon, cable providers, Hulu, iTunes etc going to stop offering their pay per title movie rentals or purchases? They got shyt back to my parent’s childhood available, I think I’ll be good over the next 20 years being able to rent class act or the wood once every 4-5 years when I want to watch it. Furthermore, I just watched an HD stream of house party 3 on kodi this past Saturday.

I get those of y’all who like physical media, but the justifications y’all try to make for physical over digital, instead of just sticking to saying that’s the format you prefer, is such a stretch.
 

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Why? So I can pay $8-20 for one dvd when I could just subscribe to a service with thousands of titles for the same price as one piece of media?


Anyway, only have a DVD player because I have like 5-6 beach body workout programs I ripped to dvd back in the day and the king of queens boxset
I’m sorry, is amazon, cable providers, Hulu, iTunes etc going to stop offering their pay per title movie rentals or purchases? They got shyt back to my parent’s childhood available, I think I’ll be good over the next 20 years being able to rent class act or the wood once every 4-5 years when I want to watch it. Furthermore, I just watched an HD stream of house party 3 on kodi this past Saturday.

I get those of y’all who like physical media, but the justifications y’all try to make for physical over digital, instead of just sticking to saying that’s the format you prefer, is such a stretch.

The industry will change that. More and more studios will pull their content off of the wider streaming services, and only offer it on theirs. The one-stop-shop model will end within the next 2 years, so either you're paying for cable like prices for several streaming services, with different level packages, and rotating content, or you have it to own until weathered to the point of unusable. Netflix rotates movies every month, Hulu is more like 3 months, not sure about Amazon. Now Warner pulls all of their content off, only available on Warner Stream, and then they do packages for content, or place a data cap. These are the projected trends.

As long as you have streaming services, they can switch it up on you whenever.
 

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The industry will change that. More and more studios will pull their content off of the wider streaming services, and only offer it on theirs. The one-stop-shop model will end within the next 2 years, so either you're paying for cable like prices for several streaming services, with different level packages, and rotating content, or you have it to own until weathered to the point of unusable. Netflix rotates movies every month, Hulu is more like 3 months, not sure about Amazon. Now Warner pulls all of their content off, only available on Warner Stream, and then they do packages for content, or place a data cap. These are the projected trends.

As long as you have streaming services, they can switch it up on you whenever.
You’re not. Even I want to see bad boys and have to subscribe to warner for a month for it $12 - I get access to thousands of titles more. That’s incredibly more efficient than buying that one dvd for $5-10. Furthermore that doesn’t even take into account on demand rentals which are $2-6 per movie.

Some of y’all enjoy watching the same movie a million times, so yea, have it on dvd. Most people see a movie once and keep it moving. Even their faves, they watch once in a blue moon. There is too much content between music, tv, and movies - plus LIVING LIFE - to be investing in individual movies that most people won’t have time to watch enough to justify owning. Plus that shyt takes up space. Those days of having furniture dedicated to media storage are :camby:
 
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I’m sorry, is amazon, cable providers, Hulu, iTunes etc going to stop offering their pay per title movie rentals or purchases? They got shyt back to my parent’s childhood available, I think I’ll be good over the next 20 years being able to rent class act or the wood once every 4-5 years when I want to watch it. Furthermore, I just watched an HD stream of house party 3 on kodi this past Saturday.

I get those of y’all who like physical media, but the justifications y’all try to make for physical over digital, instead of just sticking to saying that’s the format you prefer, is such a stretch.

I only like to watch in the best possible format.
 

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I have no use for DVD's anymore and the only blurays I buy consistently are complete series boxsets
 
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