This is the best take on here.

Ah, but that’s the key. “The means to play it.” A used laserdisc player is like $500 now and you can’t get them repaired.

Nah. Netflix has content (it’s growing rapidly) that is 4K, HDR, Dolby Vision and Atmos...

Few things are more obnoxious than a dvd or blu ray that forces you to watch or scroll through previews to get to the main menu.

The Wonder Years 100% was available on Netflix at least last year. I know because I watched it. All of it.

Or you can check them out for FREE from the library and return them when your done and not have a huge pile of dvd boxes gathering dust in your house for many, many years to come. Also, when they stop making DVD players and yours finally craps out, you won’t be stuck with a big pile of coasters.

You sound a bit like the folks who claim to be annoyed at the people who claim to love vinyl because it is “experiential.”

I bet your cassette tapes are also dust free too.

Oh my god it’s a contrarian. On the internet of all places! We are all truly humbled by your bravery.

Don’t forget the bit about hoping the old ass DVD player actually works as expected. My girlfriend has a smart Blu-Ray player which she bought more for the smart bits than the Blu-Ray bits. She threw something in for the first time several months ago and the tray wouldn’t even close back up. Netflix, Prime, and Hulu…

I actually did something similar recently — I ripped all my old DVDs, including some of the director’s commentary / special features and store them on an old laptop running Plex. I now basically have my own, personal Netflix, with none of the worries about properties leaving without warning, and I don’t have to take…

I think likening owning DVDs to owning records is comparing apples to oranges. I can do other things when listening to records/music, including having conversations with other people. When I have friends over for drinks, I’m not going to say to myself “I’m going to set the mood here and put on ‘Captain America: Winter…

This is a silly take. Nobody should be buying DVDs. There’s literally no good reason for the average consumer to have them. None. Like it or not, it’s a piece of plastic that will needlessly take up space in your home until it is one day discarded to a landfill. Virtually everything you could possibly want to own is…

OK so the hipsters have come for DVDs now. Can anyone remember they last time they held a CD/DVD? No they can’t because it’s fucking stupid. If someone handed me a CD and said “Watch this!” I would throw it in the trash. We now have the ability to directly beam photons in the form of movies and TV shows anytime,…

Mike Judge knew more than us all.

Yep. Dems are getting played so hard right now, and y’all don’t even see it.

Yep, that’s how the last election went. Thinking we’re too good for idiocy to prevail is definitely not enough.

There is no guarantee Dems will win the House and/or Senate. We need to get involved - donate, calls, hit the streets. Sitting back and hoping the GOP is just going to implode is NOT going to be enough.

I love you. Sometimes I read a post and my faith in human logic is restored. I drive a Lexus CT which is apparently “painfully slow” and don’t get me wrong, it’s not a Saturn rocket to be sure, but there’s nothing slow about it, and I take the 5.6L/100KM (42 mpg) average (according to my onboard computer) over a…

What’s stupid is that car makers are fully capable of meeting the efficiency standards. Engines have become vastly more efficient over the decades. But instead of that translating to gains in mpg, it translates to gains in horsepower while mpg remains stagnant. Instead of stuffing another 100hp into a Ford family…