Re: DVD is dead. Long live DVD

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Michael Trew wrote:

On 12/27/2024 12:28 PM, JAB wrote:

Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into streaming.
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This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video continued
deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying DVDs this year. Target
followed suit. Redbox rented its final Liam Neeson movie and shuttered
its kiosks in July. Finally, LG announced just last week that it would
discontinue all its UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung
and Sony in ditching the optical drive.
 https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media

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Just like all outdated tech, it will live on for a long time.  We still sell lots of DVD's, some as cheap as $1 each, where I work.  There are tons and tons and tons of optical drives/DVD players floating around out there, that can be had for pennies on the dollar.  We buy 25 cent Disney VHS tapes at Goodwill for the kids to watch.  You can still get used VCR's dirt cheap.

I often thought about dropping a 1000 USD or so, on a nice selection of DVD:s, and then just scan them to the computer. Another thing I thought about is simply going through estates and probably getting 1000s of DVD:s for free.
In my country it is legal to share DVD:s between people and watch them together in private.
I imagine that ripping all those DVD:s to a common disk, it should be possible, within the limits of the law, to build up quite a nice non-profit video repository! =)