jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I keep reading about how DVDs and CD are yesterday's technology because everything can be streamed. That sounds ridiculous. I probably have hundreds of movies on DVDs that are not available for streaming when I want to see them. The same applies to music. I can pop a DVD or CD into a player and be entertained for a while. If I want to steam something, I need an Internet or Wi-Fi connection. If I am away from home, that costs me money for data usage. In the car, I use XM, CD, and a tiny 16GB flash drive that contains hundreds of songs.

I have Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Acorn TV at home, but Netflix offers generally sub-par movies, with the rest being their own sub-par creations. If a title pops into my head, and I don't have it on the shelf, I can probably get it faster from Amazon's store than from a streaming site.

Long live the disc!

rmm0605 Loc: Atlanta GA

You tell 'em, Jerry!! (I happen to agree!)

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Yes, definitely.
--Bob

georgiapeach2 Loc: Georgia the Peach State

I agree with you Jerry I still use my DVD's and CD's for music at home and in my car.

rrkazman

I have many DVD's as well I am not sure why it is but Netflix seems to go to the bottom of the barrel for their movies. It is the same with Amazon Prime, I feel they want you to watch their as you say sub-par creations. I travel to Mexico and watch Netflix there the content is completely different much broader selection of movies. An associate recommended VuDu for the best movie content I have yet to try it.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Me too. Use CDs and DVDs. Not wild about not having something in my hand after I bought it and have it in the cloud or stream it.

pdsdville Loc: Midlothian, Tx

I agree, long live the disc.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I still use them also- car, boom-box, TV.
"Mine" aren't going anywhere in the near future.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

Both formats offer superior quality, I use both but I do also have Netflix and Prime. I don't download or stream music though, CD's have a much lower level of compression than most online music. I'm a big Blu-ray fan, HD is not as good streamed.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

"You can't stop what's coming."

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

You can bring it back or stop it vanishing completely. Even cassette tapes have made an appearance in shops lately. Vinyl is booming.

jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida

Sometimes rent a Blu-ray from Redbox

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

I agree, Jerry. I have about 2200 DVD's (most regular DVD a few the old High Def (redish brown case) and about 1/3 are either Blu-ray or Blu-ray 3d. I use DVD Profiler to keep track and have both the desktop version and the version on my phone. Both have my complete inventory and the phone version is great when I'm at the store so I can make sure that I'm not buying a duplicate.
I do have a set top dvr (in the cable box) which I mainly use for time shifting a sports or tv show that I want to see in a better time slot or save for future watching. But, if it is a movie and I like it, I will probably go looking for the Blu-ray so that I OWN it. I can watch those anytime and can even throw a couple into the car and watch them on the laptop or plug the laptop into a tv at the resort/hotel/motel and watch while on my trips. I don't do pay per view or any of that. I will sometimes see a movie on the tv menu that I either don't have or haven't seen in a while and may watch it there. If its one that I already have, I probably will switch the tv to DVD and watch my copy so that I don't have to deal with commercials, stupid editing etc.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Yea, I still have all my vinyl too!

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Me too and a very good turntable and stereo (well its a surround home theater with a very good subwoofer) to listen to them on. It works great on movies and cd's too. But, I love the vinyl albums and have tons.