Good Evening folks. I bought a 3 year old SONY DVD player at garage sale for $5 few weeks back. Plays music CD’s and works flawless. Got Sony remote off Amazon for $12~ too. How many folks here still have and or use one?
DVD PLAYERS: how many you folks still have or use them?
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Yup. Even BURN DVDs from VHSs occasionally so I can rip them to my computer.
I like owning the rights to a movie, by paying a few bucks, forever. Don't have to worry about a streaming service going tango uniform or just losing the rights to my distributor.
I like owning the rights to a movie, by paying a few bucks, forever. Don't have to worry about a streaming service going tango uniform or just losing the rights to my distributor.
I just bought a mini-dvd player to go with a new TV in my travel trailer.
Still have them, but may as well get rid of them as much as we use then (never).
I still have the DVD player my wife and son bought me...around the year 2000 
. They were so uncommon or new back then, they included a movie with it. It was Batman & Robin, the one with George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc. I still have most of the DVDs we bought over the years and I think I'd have kept this one for sentimental reasons. We don't use that DVD player anymore though. It was superseded my multiple players, up to the BD player I have hooked up (to my 7.1 channel AV receiver).
. They were so uncommon or new back then, they included a movie with it. It was Batman & Robin, the one with George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc. I still have most of the DVDs we bought over the years and I think I'd have kept this one for sentimental reasons. We don't use that DVD player anymore though. It was superseded my multiple players, up to the BD player I have hooked up (to my 7.1 channel AV receiver).
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None in our home but I bought ( several, he watches that many movies ) my brother a DVD player when he moved into "nursing home" several years ago.
I go see him everyday , watch a movie with him and take him outside afterwards.
We just watched "Casino" today.
Anything I can do to make him happy.
I go see him everyday , watch a movie with him and take him outside afterwards.
We just watched "Casino" today.
Anything I can do to make him happy.
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You're a good friend and brother
Family uses my Xbox Series X to play physical media.
I need to get a new one. I have a laptop with a dvd player I can play to a tv but it’s not permanently hooked up. I have a bunch oof dvd’s I haven’t seen in a while.
I still use my SONY Blu-ray player. I watched Donnie Brasco, AGAIN recently.
I have the PS5 Blu-Ray model if that counts. The last thing I watched on it was this:
Or you can get a Chrome Cast and just stream from the laptop or your phone or whatever other device you've got without messing with cables. That's the primary way we use the TV these days.
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I still use them. We have one in the living room which is Blu-Ray and DVD, parents have a DVD/VHS combo in their bedroom but they don’t have a working tv anymore though so it hasn’t been used in awhile then I’ve got a 4K/Blu-Ray/DVD player in my room that I bought back in January it’s a Panasonic. Also have an extra DVD player in my dresser drawer that is our old one in case I need it. We also have 4 VCRs as well. I just purchased one on eBay last week and getting it setup this weekend. As someone that now has over 600 DVD/Blu-Ray/4K and about 100 VHS tapes having players is important.
Have two VCRs somewhere in the house. Listed them on Craigslist twenty years ago for $20 and got no interest. Maybe they are vintage now and worth some money?
I would rather go deaf and blind before streaming something I have the physical media for due to the excessive and loud commercials. It is getting worse especially when you can tell when the cut in more ad breaks than the original show had. And yet I still stream most everything since 2012.
I occasionally use my Blu-ray player and also have a dvd player somewhere. Some of the modest collection of flicks that I have are fairly obscure, but mostly DVD's. My wife bought a high end VCR some years ago at a church bazaar for $15. I still haven't hooked it up although it would be fun to see some old tapes. Toward the end of the VCR days, some people were taking advantage of the excellent audio recording quality of hi fi vhs VCR's. Even at the super slowest 6 hour speed, they had a signal to noise ratio that was pretty competitive with a CD or high end vinyl.
