Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Steve Roby]

Obligatory "I've got it all on DVD or blu ray, so I'm not worried about what happens with streaming" comment.

 

[JD]

I'm finding myself more and more tempted to start getting the Blu-Rays and DVDs for shows or movies that I really love. With it being hard to keep track of what is where, and sometimes it is kind of a pain in the ass to have switch over to a different service when all I want like one episode of one of one show.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Obligatory "I've got it all on DVD or blu ray, so I'm not worried about what happens with streaming" comment.

I cannot stress the utter joy to not only have bought all the restoration dvds from day 1, but having the sense about 10 years ago to start ripping them all to a HDD, so that today i have not opened a DVD restorations box in about 9 years at this point, and every last one of them is in prestine condition, and the only thing i have done in all that time is backup the backups to 2 SSD external drives, so yeah just popping a few seasons onto a 256 gig USB stick and popping it into the TV is glorious, and no online required ever or subscriptions services.

Of course the only worry is that CD rot thing, which i found has affected some of my Babylon 5 boxsets discs, but thankfully i had ripped them to back in the day, but still, i watched the guy back in the early 80s smear jam and pour coffee over a CD, and it still worked, so what happened? lol

 

[David cgc]

Of course the only worry is that CD rot thing, which i found has affected some of my Babylon 5 boxsets discs, but thankfully i had ripped them to back in the day, but still, i watched the guy back in the early 80s smear jam and pour coffee over a CD, and it still worked, so what happened?

This was actually a whole thing, it turns out Warner Brothers' home video department sourced a bad batch of blank DVDs from around 2006 to 2008. I only started comprehensive, full-quality DVD (and Blu-Ray, and 4K) ripping a few years ago, and I was concerned about my oldest discs being affected by this infamous disc-rot, but it turned out only a couple had gone bad on the shelf (my copy of Babylon 5's "The Lost Tales," and the first disc of season one of Dead Like Me), both of which I got around 2007.