Are dvds going away due to streaming

[Happyinwonerland]

I enjoy streaming, but if I'm not near an internet source (say, in the car on a 13 hour drive to Orlando), I need to use DVD to keep my kiddo occupied.

 

[gillep]

Now that my cable provider allows you to download your DVR recordings to a device, and Netflix and Prime Video allows downloads, so that I can watch things when I am flying or without internet I am happy to go all digital, I don't need more things or clutter.

Christmas 3 years ago, at least half of my FILs gifts were DVDs of shows and movies he loved, and quite a few for each SIL as well, over the years that has started to dwindle, this year absolutely no DVDs at all were exchanged.

 

[rajak73]

They will be phased out at some time. Drove a used car the other day, salesman started talking about the new 2018, said they were doing away with the CD player because most everybody has music on there phone and the car can bluetooth to the phone.

 

[amcnj]

I have my favorites but it could just be me

Oh I too have my favorites, movies that draw me in again over and over. Ones I can happen upon anywhere during the story and not be able to stop watching the remaining portions, even knowing the outcome by heart. So I am trying to limit purchases to those types I guess.

 

[xlxo]

I used to love DVD's for the bonus content. Then got addicted to Blu-Ray's resolution. 4K was pricy and had limited selection.... did not catch on with me.

Today, I use Video on Demand.

 

[MillauFr]

I can't stand the DVDs. I just bought a DVDFab movie server and an 8 TB hard drive. I copied all of my movies onto my movie server and were also able to strip out all of those annoying intro screens. It takes a few minutes to get to the main movie on some discs.

 

[kdonnel]

Physical media of all type will go away. I think in less then 15 years.

 

[Albort]

Physical media of all type will go away. I think in less then 15 years.

i would think it varies with how the internet develops in the future. With net neutrality in the mix, streaming can become more expensive and DVDs can come back into play. Also, in recent years, ISPs have been countering streaming with data caps, ie your limited on only x amount of data. this helps their own cable connections grow as ppl find themselves limited and buying cable TV is the one way to get around that.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I doubt it. Most of what we like to watch aren't on any streaming services.

I do watch Netflix sometimes but I get impatient looking for something to watch. It seems like it takes so long to find something.

 

[kdonnel]

i would think it varies with how the internet develops in the future. With net neutrality in the mix, streaming can become more expensive and DVDs can come back into play. Also, in recent years, ISPs have been countering streaming with data caps, ie your limited on only x amount of data. this helps their own cable connections grow as ppl find themselves limited and buying cable TV is the one way to get around that.

None of that matters.

Consumers will demand streaming of everything. The content providers will line up to provide. They don’t want us owning anything. They want us leasing it on a monthly basis via subscription. Traditional TV(satellite or cable) is dieing as well on the same timeframe.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I think in general yes, streaming is overtaking DVDs. Thinking about the younger generation, my stepdaughter unhooked her DVD player and threw it somewhere in the garage when she got a Roku box for her TV. She offered the DVD player to her sister who also has a Roku, and she didn't want the DVD player either. I know I have a stack of DVDs and some BluRays myself. It has been a few years since I have bought any. I never really seem to use the ones I have. I have some digital copies of my favorite stuff. It seems so much easier to just do some clicking than it does to dig around and find a hardcopy of something.

 

[ronandannette]

I think in general yes, streaming is overtaking DVDs. Thinking about the younger generation, my stepdaughter unhooked her DVD player and threw it somewhere in the garage when she got a Roku box for her TV. She offered the DVD player to her sister who also has a Roku, and she didn't want the DVD player either. I know I have a stack of DVDs and some BluRays myself. It has been a few years since I have bought any. I never really seem to use the ones I have. I have some digital copies of my favorite stuff. It seems so much easier to just do some clicking than it does to dig around and find a hardcopy of something.

We didn't even bother to hook up our DVD/Blueray player when we moved 3 years ago. We don't own a single DVD nor would I probably be able to figure out how to work the remote anymore. Seriously though, we do have the very tipitytop-tier cable package with on-demand, two separate streaming services and Chromecast. Our expense for that is through the roof; over $200/mo. I wonder how that compares to back in the day when we rented a dozen movies a month from Blockbuster?

 

[tvguy]

I doubt it. Most of what we like to watch aren't on any streaming services.

I do watch Netflix sometimes but I get impatient looking for something to watch. It seems like it takes so long to find something.

This is my issue. What I watch is currently only available on satellite/cable or off air TV. Our daughter has a Netflix account, but not much DW and I want to watch.

As for the whole net neutrality issue, I think it's too soon to tell. The doomsayers may be right on, or they could completely wrong. If one provider starts offering un-throttled service, or a price cut, market forces will force prices down and throttling will be limited or go away. Just look at cell phones. When I got mine in 1990 I paid 25 cents per minute per call, no texting then. Then when texting came, you paid $10 a month extra for a limited number of texts and then came data charges. Now pretty much is unlimited, or have limits that the average person would never come close to hitting for a flat rate.

 

[manning]

I use DVD and external drives for storing. I don't know anything about cloud. DVD is more permanent. Hard drives fai (not if)l. I had one do that on a new computer and an external after a month out of the box

 

[kdonnel]

I use DVD and external drives for storing. I don't know anything about cloud. DVD is more permanent. Hard drives fai (not if)l. I had one do that on a new computer and an external after a month out of the box

DVD and BluRay have an estimated 20-100 year lifespan. Far from permanent. I trust my personal pictures and movies to a cloud provider rather then local optical or spinning storage.

 

[Domo]

There are parallels.

With the iMac Apple nervously did away with the floppy disk. Now you'd be lucky to find a computer with one.

Now they've scuppered the optical CD/DVD drive, across their whole range.

 

[cedricandsophie]

I have a disabled adult daughter. She doesn’t have a tv in her room and uses her portable DVD player and while she often uses Netflix or amazon prime on her phone or iPad, she uses her portable DVD player the most. She loves old shows like a The golden girls and Disney movies.
I can’t imagine dvds actually going away. Not everyone has or will have WiFi or unlimited data for streaming.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

I have a disabled adult daughter. She doesn’t have a tv in her room and uses her portable DVD player and while she often uses Netflix or amazon prime on her phone or iPad, she uses her portable DVD player the most. She loves old shows like a The golden girls and Disney movies.
I can’t imagine dvds actually going away. Not everyone has or will have WiFi or unlimited data for streaming.

Being a disabled adult myself I understand but not every show is available on dvd just like not every show is available for streaming

 

[xlxo]

DVD is more permanent

DVD and BluRay have an estimated 20-100 year lifespan. Far from permanent.

I have lost all faith with burned DVD's. My disks would last hours or weeks when I give them out. My preferred media choice is hard drives and USB keys.

 

[manning]

DVD and BluRay have an estimated 20-100 year lifespan. Far from permanent. I trust my personal pictures and movies to a cloud provider rather then local optical or spinning storage.

They'll oitlast me.