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Yes I do.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

We own close to 7,000 CDs, DVDs, LPs, CSs, VHSs. And a lot of them are OOP. Our Subaru Forester has a CD player and Satellite Radio. We have an old VHS Player. I think it still works but it is not connected right now.

Yes, I know LPs are outselling CD currently. But, wow, the prices of vinyl records $25 per album, CDs half that. And for me I have run out of space to store many more LPs. A lot of people who do not care about HiFi sound just down load steam music and video.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I converted my sound system to a Sonos system. I have an arc connected to my a Blu-ray and three additional speakers, including a subwoofer. The sound is fabulous. I converted many of my CD's to an mp3 format. Many years ago I downloaded files from Napster and Limewire P2P sites. All files were mp2/3 files. I have been downloading music files from YouTube for years. I paid $23 for a converter program. Consequently, I have access to 41,000 music files (most are albums) on an SSD in my PC. Using the Sonos app, I can access any those files. If you love music, I highly recommend a Sonos system. (note:I upload many files to a flash drive for listening in my car.)
Mark

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Probably to prevent absconding information.

Nikonman2014

This is an interesting topic. Yes, I have thousands of CDs and DVDs and I continue to buy them. I have recently purchased a relatively high-end CD player from Cambridge Audio. It's remarkable for playing CDs, even very old recordings that have been remastered sound like they were just recorded yesterday. The Cambridge Audio CD player feeds a Cambridge Audio receiver.

Why do I continue to buy disks? First of all, I like having physical media. For DVDs, I can watch or rewatch old favorites. With streaming, some films and older television programs have been modified or self-censored. Some episodes are not shown on streaming platforms because of current sensitivities regarding race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. I don't need someone else to decide what I watch, I'm fully capable of deciding for myself.

Second, I listen to a lot of opera, and I like gapless playback of my CDs. Also, rare or older recordings may not be easily found on a streaming service. I can play complete opera DVD recordings via a Blu-Ray player through the stereo receiver.

Third, I am not totally against purchasing electronic versions and downloading them. When I was overseas for about 15 years before retiring, I often bought downloadable music or ebooks, because otherwise I had to wait 2-3 weeks for delivery. Now that I am stateside, I can get things delivered in a day or two and I always purchase CDs, DVDs, or hardcovers.

RKastner Loc: Davenport, FL

I have a CD player in our cars....but rarely use them since all of my music is on my phone. My wife has a portable CD player because she likes playing the CD's instead of using her phone.

We have a Blu-Ray player that we use on occasion.

We just like having physical media....not sure why but we do.

As for the numbers -

CD's - 384

DVD/Blu-Ray's - 317

johnh1944 Loc: North Las Vegas

I have about 1000 LPs, 3000 CDs and 500 Cassettes. Although, I have ripped most of my music to various hard drives, I still enjoy listing to my music on Yamaha CD player, Kenwood Cassette player and my Fluance Turntable.

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

My answer way too many!
But have LP’s burned to CD, CDs even cassettes burned to CD only as back of back up
Main library with all my music( around 4000 CD or LPs) in iTunes or as called now “Music” in Mac.as apple loss less
Also backed up to HD around 4 tb
Fanatic music collector for over 75 years. My children will have quite a job ahead.
About Wolverine film scanner highly recommended but does take sound Super 8 movies
Records frame by frame with more resolution than film can give 8 mm and Silent Super 8
Scanned probably 20 400’ reels , now MP4 in HD
Do not know about buying ahead cassette players, mine have died by rotting belts, better to digitize while you can
Do not know how CD DVD players will hold up, main problem with my record players and VHS machines have been rubber parts
Other machines that have died for me film scanners
Keep the music , get rid of obsolete media, do as I say not as I did

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

With my aged ears cannot tell apart original vs. digitized may be someone younger can

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

Try Antique stores some have jewels under $10

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

A few years ago when I was shopping for a new auto I checked this one out. Seems they ALL want to cater to sirius. But I tried to buy a DVD player. Found a unit that was around $200 but found there were lots of units that were not compatible with Honda's system. But it can be done.

adm

I know I have between 750 to 800 vinyl records and I would guess I have around the same number of CDs and maybe a couple hundred DVDs, including a few Blue Ray discs. I have a CD player in my 2010 car but I rarely listen to CDs in the car anyway. I have three audiophile quality (or close to it) CD players in my home stereo systems. This is the best way to enjoy CDs in my opinion. You can get a great home CD player for $400 to $600. Marantz and Rotel are good quality, high value brands. But you have to have a good amp/receiver and speakers to get the full benefit. I don't do audio streaming at all except with headphones on the computer.

Botz Loc: So Orange County, Ca.

I just finishing digitizing over 300 CDs and donated them to the local library. Didn't want to send them to a land fill. Now looking at doing the same thing to 30 10 inch reel to reel tapes, and then on to over 300 vinyl. Hopefully I'll wrap it up before I'm wrapped up.

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

Do you have working reel to reel machine?
Treasure it very few still working today
How old?
Problem are belts and electrolytic capacitors
Vinyl will outlast all of us, not so with other media