Anyone still watch movies on VHS or dvd?
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Some DVD or BlueRay from the library.
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Nick1994
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I don't think I've touched a DVD in at least 10 years. Maybe 12?
I had to google if my Xbox would play a dvd…. It can but I never have. We just stream everything, and due to having small children all my games are digital copies.
I think I last used a DVD in 2017 when we drove down to Georgia for the kids in our Durango.
I think I last used a DVD in 2017 when we drove down to Georgia for the kids in our Durango.
I watch VHS recordings all the time. It would take too much time to digitize all these.. I have an extensive movie library and a good supply of VHS machines which I would buy used at the Goodwill for $5. When a deck goes down, I pitch it and pull out another one. I have many recordings from the mid 80's and they still look as good as the day I recorded them.
I would say 75+% of our movie consumption comes from discs.
My house has Google 1GB wifi, so please don't tell me my comments are from a poor internet connection.
Streaming an old movie is fine...can't tell much of a difference.
Streaming a new movie that I have a 4K disc for...no comparison. The disc is better in picture and sound quality EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I prefer to watch Blu-ray or 4K discs over streaming.
My house has Google 1GB wifi, so please don't tell me my comments are from a poor internet connection.
Streaming an old movie is fine...can't tell much of a difference.
Streaming a new movie that I have a 4K disc for...no comparison. The disc is better in picture and sound quality EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I prefer to watch Blu-ray or 4K discs over streaming.
Now that I am older I don't care much about this stuff. No VCR no DVD, a relatively new CD player is covered with dust.
So no DVD after my Pioneer burner was toast after 5 years of hard use.
Comcast On Demand has satisfied my wife's need for weekend binge watching.
I do have 2 or 3 VCR tapes that I would like to archive. I haven looked into hardware to put this stuff on a HD then onto a thumbdrive.
So no DVD after my Pioneer burner was toast after 5 years of hard use.
Comcast On Demand has satisfied my wife's need for weekend binge watching.
I do have 2 or 3 VCR tapes that I would like to archive. I haven looked into hardware to put this stuff on a HD then onto a thumbdrive.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
The "older part." I find I have changed as I get older. Weeks / months and years seem to be zooming past me. Sons are men with their kids who are growing up. It certainly makes you think different. Some things do not matter any more. Others seem more important. When I first was forced to retire, it was strange. I found myself looking around thinking "I should not be at home during the day!" It took 2 whole years to adjust. I watched near every DVD in the house (which is a closet full) and read many books. I have a wall bookshelf that contains near a hundred books. The wife and I both have come to the conclusion, we have so much in a 4 bedroom house (empty nest for years) we need to start downsizing. We started packing up so many odds and ends we do not need and have begun donating things so people who need can have what we do not need.
P.S. I still have some VHS tapes, boxes of cassettes, vinyl albums, CDs, books I have read 2 and 3 times over the years.... At least we do not still have any of our old 8 tracks. LOL
"Some day we will be old enough to start to read fairy tales again." -C.S. Lewis
I still have a VHS machine, and about 50 tapes. I'd like to get rid of them all since I no longer watch them.
Can't seem to do it though. They remind me of my younger days.........
Can't seem to do it though. They remind me of my younger days.........
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
I got lucky and found a vhs/dvd player / recorder on Ebay or some online site. I was able to transfer lots of vhs to dvd for a while. Then all of the vhs tapes started to break or get eaten by the machines. Had to open the machine up to dig all the tape out. That happened so many times I finally gave up thinking the tapes deteriorate after so long? I would have blamed the machine but all our players started to eat the vhs tapes. Still find a few stragglers around the house from time to time we missed throwing out. Its to the point these days almost no stores want to sell DVDs or CDs cause all the young folks do everything on Smart Phones or Internet. There is a funny song on the last album Joe Walsh made named Analog Man.
Part of lyrics....... LOL
Welcome to cyberspace, I'm lost in the fog
Everything's digital I'm still analog
When something goes wrong
I don't have a clue
Some 10-year-old smart ass has to show me what to do
Sign on with high speed you don't have to wait
Sit there for days and vegetate
I access my email, read all my spam, I'm an analog man.
The whole world's living in a digital dream
It's not really there
It's all on the screen
Makes me forget who I am
I'm an analog man
Part of lyrics....... LOL
Analog Man
Joe WalshWelcome to cyberspace, I'm lost in the fog
Everything's digital I'm still analog
When something goes wrong
I don't have a clue
Some 10-year-old smart ass has to show me what to do
Sign on with high speed you don't have to wait
Sit there for days and vegetate
I access my email, read all my spam, I'm an analog man.
The whole world's living in a digital dream
It's not really there
It's all on the screen
Makes me forget who I am
I'm an analog man
No for VHS/DVD
I do still have the first Toshiba HD DVD player, and two Blu-Ray players, probably about 100 movies combined.
Edit - I will add that real lossless audio kicks the crap out of streaming audio. Not even close.
I do still have the first Toshiba HD DVD player, and two Blu-Ray players, probably about 100 movies combined.
Edit - I will add that real lossless audio kicks the crap out of streaming audio. Not even close.
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DVD for some rare kids stuff that I cannot even download, but not VHS.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Yeah... a few years ago I wanted a new DVD recorder. We only use cable Tv and don't have those fancy new DVRs. My sons and their wives still tease me about it when they visit! So I went into Best Buy stores and could not find one. Finally one sales person told me they could order me one. He said they have really been phased out in USA especially. Don't stock anymore so little demand today. So Best Buy got me a nice new one for about $149. Toshiba SE-R0265. Next issue for me may be a limited supply of blank DVDs.. Gonna have to buy me a couple 50 packs. Should last the rest of my days. LOL
"Some day we will be old enough to start to read fairy tales again." -C.S. Lewis
We still watch a lot of DVD's but I'm slowly getting them all "backed up" and put into my NAS which runs Plex Server so I can stream it anywhere in the house and outside of the house for me and my friends/family because we have Fiber 500/500 internet so bandwidth isn't an issue.
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