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Do you still collect DVD, Blu-ray, 4K?

Do you still collect DVD, Blu-ray, 4K?

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My Dr Who restoration DVD collection has paid diviends today due to how on streaming services they are either removing specific episodes or cutting them up into smaller versions, so yeah i still collect dvd or br box sets of tv shows, and i like 60s/70 and 80s shows from the Uk box sets, shows like Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, The new Avengers, Sherlock Homes(Jeremy Brett),Twilight zone(original), The Outer limits(original), Rockford files, The Sweeney.......to name a few off the top of my head.
 
When I grew up "Blu-ray" was always such a rich people thing. And I guess mostly out of spite I still don't buy them, which is a shame since nowadays all cool features get released on Blu-ray only. But if I am completely honest the concept of watching an episode from 1995 in 4K is just incredibly silly to me.

Back in my "wee little kid's days" I went shopping with my mum one saturday morning. We went to an "Allkauf", which had a seperate little store included, where you could buy records, audio-cassettes and VHS-Cassettes. I had 40 DM to spend, so I grabbed two VHS-Cassettes of "the Transformers" - "Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (erster Teil)" and "Der Alptraum-Planet". Runtime: Roughly 24 minutes (each tape). Both costed 19,95 DM - which would be 10,27 Dollars, or 10,20 Euros.

Today, you get for 19,95 Euro Season 1, 3 and 4 of the original Series on DVD and can buy 3,5 Scoops of Ice-Cream in Bochum or 2,46 scoops of Ice-Cream in Berlin, Munich or all the other bigger cities.

And yes, I still collect DVDs, Blu-Rays, will update soon on the latest technology, since one doesn't get DVDs from the shows, one would like to watch, anymore, but only 4k-Blu-Rays (with normal blu-rays), so I can watch the whole Marvel-Series and some Star Wars.
 
one doesn't get DVDs from the shows, one would like to watch, anymore, but only 4k-Blu-Rays (with normal blu-rays)

I kind of wish that were true. At least over here, some shows get released in DVD only. It’s even more frustrating when the first few seasons come out in blu-ray and then they switch to DVD only.

But at least it’s less frustrating than when they just stop releasing later seasons altogether.
 
I kind of wish that were true. At least over here, some shows get released in DVD only. It’s even more frustrating when the first few seasons come out in blu-ray and then they switch to DVD only.

But at least it’s less frustrating than when they just stop releasing later seasons altogether.

Indeed. There are a couple of shows I have that dropped blu and went dvd only. (In theory, there's multi-region disks, but I've had problems with one or two of those).

The ones where they don't finish the series are annoying though (and I've had a few of those too:( )
 
I kind of wish that were true. At least over here, some shows get released in DVD only. It’s even more frustrating when the first few seasons come out in blu-ray and then they switch to DVD only.

But at least it’s less frustrating than when they just stop releasing later seasons altogether.
Wanna switch? In Germany, at least, the shows I'd like to see, are "4K-Blu-Ray/Blu-Ray" bundle only.
 
My eyes are not great, so I don't see much difference between DVD and BD, so whatever format something is available in is fine with me.

I remember being dazzled by the difference between VHS and the new Laserdiscs. DVDs were bettwer than LDs to my amazement. After that it all seems the same to me.
 
My mum and stepdad still collect DVD and Blu-Ray. We lose power just about every time the weather isn't perfect (slight exaggeration but seriously we lose power a LOT) and most of the time when we get it back the internet stays down for a foolsihly long time after the power comes back, so we won't be able to watch thigns. Thus, DVD and Blu-Rays are the solution.
 
My eyes are not great, so I don't see much difference between DVD and BD, so whatever format something is available in is fine with me.

I remember being dazzled by the difference between VHS and the new Laserdiscs. DVDs were bettwer than LDs to my amazement. After that it all seems the same to me.
I do notice some difference, but it isn't the quite of quantum leap I saw between VHS and DVD. It's difficult to quantify sometimes as well because Blu-ray players often upscale DVDs anyway. I'm also conscious that I have a fairly bog standard BR player and that when I eventually get something super-duper the difference may be even more noticeable.

Whether I'll ever go 4K is up for debate.
 
I do notice some difference, but it isn't the quite of quantum leap I saw between VHS and DVD. It's difficult to quantify sometimes as well because Blu-ray players often upscale DVDs anyway. I'm also conscious that I have a fairly bog standard BR player and that when I eventually get something super-duper the difference may be even more noticeable.

Whether I'll ever go 4K is up for debate.
Yeah, I have a 4k Smart TV, but the BD player doesn't do 4K. Not sure it matters to me at this point.
 
Yeah, I have a 4k Smart TV, but the BD player doesn't do 4K. Not sure it matters to me at this point.
Your TV is upscaling whatever it gets to 4K. A true 4K source should appear better than the rest but most TVs today make Blu-rays look quite good.

I don’t buy discs nearly as much as I used to but I still buy some—I take whatever format is available. 4K, Blu, DVD, even the odd VHS if it’s all I can find.
 
Not as much as I used to, but probably still more than the average person. It's mostly only shows and movies that I really love that are a priority, so that I can have a guaranteed way to watch them. Given how things can be removed from streaming services on a whim or a tax write-off.

This is how I collect. Mostly movies or tv shows I love to rewatch and don't care to hope it's on steaming or don't want to see them edited with commercials. It was actually the same strategy I used when buying discs were at their height. Has kept my collection very small over the last 25 years or so.
 
My Willow 4K steelbook just arrived today, one week after release date. This is something I miss about Best Buy not selling movies anymore. You'd usually get it Monday or Tuesday on the week it comes out.
 
Couple of purchases this holiday season.

4K Crow (original)
4K John Wick 4
4k Dune 1 & 2
Blu-ray Blake's 7
The Wraith
 
I had to sell my original DVD library years ago, but I started picking up 4K UHD and Blu-Ray discs again, and now have 360 features in my personal library. I haven't gone through and catalogued any bonus movies, shorts, or documentaries that might have been included with them, though. Two of them are on DVD only (a copy of the movie Supergirl, which was a gift from a friend who isn't around anymore, and a copy of L'Inferno from 1911 that was being sold by the band Montopolis at a live performance. All the rest are on 4K UHD or Blu-ray, with a few DVDs still scattered about in multipacks.

I also have a couple of TV shows, randomly. Cowboy Bebop and Star Wars: Rebels. Going to be collecting the Star Trek Blu-rays this year, finally (they're on my Xmas wishlist).
 
Yes, I do. I just ordered three season sets of shows I follow. I am very distrustful of the streaming services' capricious manner of taking various shows out of circulation. (I know it's more than that, but still...) I still use my fair share of streaming services, but I want to watch what I want when I want to watch it. So for those movies/shows that are must-see, I have the disks and the TV(s) and the players.
 
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