Do you still buy/collect DVDs or BluRays?

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

We have a modest collection of movies, documentaries, and TV shows on DVD (never cared about BluRay). In fact, I don't really even consider it a "collection" as much as an accumulation. I watch movies rarely; they just don't interest me all that much and I have too many other hobbies/interests. However, I do enjoy some TV shows and have DVD collections for Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, many of the Tony Bourdain No Reservations, seasons 1-4 of The Sopranos (working our way through the series--just watched Whoever Did This last night). I  probably average an hour or two a week of watching anything; my wife watches a lot more.

We watch a bit of Netflix and Hulu regularly--mostly travel shows with Tony Bourdain and Rick Steves, and some other comedies like Frasier, etc. For the most part, when things depart Hulu or Netflix I don't really care all that much, and just find something else to watch. Everybody Loves Raymond was another one we enjoyed watching from time to time, but now that it's gone, I'm not going to run out and buy the DVDs.

Although my DVDs are not nearly as important to me as my LPs and CDs, I still want to own the discs for things that are important to me and don't want to have to rely on the whims of Hulu, Netflix, or whatever streaming service. Apparently, the latest Parts Unknown with Tony Bourdain are not issued on DVD and we will have to sign up with CNN to stream them (not going to do that). They are departing Netflix in April. I just think it sucks that the days of "owning" movies and shows are ending and we will likely be totally at the mercy of whatever streaming service. You can't fight the future on every front, but you will get my LPs, CDs and FLACs from me when you pry them from my cold dead fingers. . . 

What's your attitude on DVDs/BluRays? Are you still buying them, or have you resigned youself to the streaming future?

[Cato]

Yes, we still buy movies and TV shows now and then!  Our tastes tend to be eclectic and eccentric, so Netflix etc.  would be unlikely (highly unlikely) to carry things we like.  In fact, having searched through Netflix, etc. we are always shaking our heads at the HUGE amount of stuff that we would never ever want to see! 

Plus, the few times we have used Netflix, there have been problems with fast forward, pausing, reversing, pixillation, and freezing!  So we have no interest in using them as a primary source.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Yes, that's true about Netflix (and Hulu). I am very interested in seeing more Werner Herzog films, but there are only a handful on Nethulu. However, these are available only on BluRay as a new and fairly complete set. I'm not going to buy a BluRay player just to watch these. It seems the only option is to piece them together from eBay, Amazon or wherever--same for many of the Tony Bourdain shows. In some ways these must be frustrating times for film buffs. (and then there's the whole idiotic Region 1, Region 2 thing!)

[Spineur]

Half of my DVD/BD collection are operas, concerts and documentaries on musicians.  Only the Mezzo (a classical pay tv channel) does broadcast this sort of thing.  And the likelyhood I'll find Ozu or Mizogushi or even Orson Wells on a subscription network is pretty low.  I dont collect.  I buy by necessity.

[arpeggio]

Yes.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yes, mainly for opera and Doctor Who.

[Cato]

Half of my DVD/BD collection are operas, concerts and documentaries on musicians.  Only the Mezzo (a classical pay tv channel) does broadcast this sort of thing.  And the likelyhood I'll find Ozu or Mizogushi or even Orson Wells on a subscription network is pretty low.  I dont collect.  I buy by necessity.

Like XB-70 Valkyrie said, Werner Herzog movies would be rarities, as would all foreign movies, and things like the less accessible David Lynch epics, etc., not to mention black-and-white classics or classics in general from the last century!

[Manwithaplan]

I haven't brought a CD since January 2017 

It's because of university but yeah, before then I used to be purchasing a CD a week 

[North Star]

I haven't brought a CD since January 2017 

It's because of university but yeah, before then I used to be purchasing a CD a week 

Only one?    0:)

[Manwithaplan]

Only one?    0:)

Sometimes I lost a bit of self-control with it and brought more, but it was an average.
As some of you'd know from last year, I made good use of the library last year. Approx 15 scores, books and CDs every 4/5 days 

In the past 6 months, I've kind of diverted my attention to books, it's so weird 

[Manwithaplan]

If you want to know how insane my book collecting is.....I've brought exactly 48 books since January 1st 

[vandermolen]

Still collect DVDs but my collecting doesn't have the same compulsive element as the CD purchasing.

[kishnevi]

I have a small pile of DVDs but stopped purchasing them when I realized I'm too busy listening to CDs to sit down and and watch them. Still buy occasionally but my money goes mostly to CDs and books.

[Biffo]

I still buy DVDs, vintage films, occasionally new releases, also occasionally operas - like Cato I find most of the stuff on Netflix junk I would never watch. CDs are still my main purchase though I also buy lossless downloads and listen to stuff on Spotify. I also buy books - physical and e-books.

[vandermolen]

We don't go to the cinema that often, so if a release comes out on DVD and it is not too expensive I will get it from the local supermarket - a recent example is 'The Death of Stalin' which is much more my taste than that of my wife. Dunkirk and Darkest Hour and Paddington 2 (I have sophisticated tastes) we saw at the cinema. To avoid accusations of hoarding I then tend to give them away to charity shops, to my neighbour or sell them on Amazon unless we are likely to watch them again.

[Biffo]

We don't go to the cinema that often, so if a release comes out on DVD and it is not too expensive I will get it from the local supermarket - a recent example is 'The Death of Stalin' which is much more my taste than that of my wife. Dunkirk and Darkest Hour and Paddington 2 (I have sophisticated tastes) we saw at the cinema. To avoid accusations of hoarding I then tend to give them away to charity shops, to my neighbour or sell them on Amazon unless we are likely to watch them again.

You are not alone in your sophisticated tastes - I watched Dunkirk about a month ago and Paddington 2 last night, both on DVD.

[Turner]

Yes, a few DVD of classic or very well-reputed, lesser known movies sometimes - they go down to less than 1 Euro on sales here. Herzog has been mentioned, or Greenaway, or Murnau, for example. Have also bought a few on the internet or when abroad, say of animated ones (Quay Brothers, for example). But I don´t have the energy to go through the sales sytematically, or the space to store that many more - there are around 175 different works, including short movies.

[Biffo]

Buying abroad can be a bit risky but I have never had any duds. In France CDs and DVDs are often horrendously expensive but there are bargains to be found. Supermarkets often have baskets of remaindered DVDs and I have bought a couple of classics that way - 'Meurs un autre jour'  and 'Le monde ne suffit pas'.

[Marc]

Still collect DVDs but my collecting doesn't have the same compulsive element as the CD purchasing.

Same here.
But, i.c. DVD's, it's getting less and less.

[71 dB]

In fact Blu-ray has been the format I have been in love with since 2011. Movies don't look like movies on DVD because the resolution is too low, but Blu-ray has imho enough to give "movie-look". Also, in Europe DVDs had 4 % PAL speed up, wheheas on Blu-rays movies run at 23.976 Hz.

I have old Doctor Who on DVD because that's the best they can do (and the softness of the picture is part of the naive charm), and not long ago I bought Night Gallery Season One on DVD for parts directed by Spielberg, but otherwise I want to:

1) Upgrade DVDs to Blu-ray
2) Buy new stuff (exploring movies) on Blu-ray

Just yesterday I ordered the season 3 of Better Call Saul on Blu-ray. They don't show it in Finland on tv (even with Breaking Bad they showed irregularily) and even if they did, I'd what it on Blu-ray, because it's so good. Also recently bought movies by Truffaut + Fassbinder on Blu-ray. I bought Michael Mann's Thief. I have recently upgraded to Blu-ray movies Brazil, Poltergeist, Twin Peaks and Contact. There's old tv scifi on Blu-ray with excellent picture quality: Space 1999, Buck Rogers and Galactica. Nostalgia at HD! I also collect WWE wrestling Blu-rays whenever I get them cheap. I have and enjoy the Conjuring/Insidious/Annabelle-movies on Blu-ray. I'd really want to upgrade my J-horror collection on DVD to Blu-ray, but the availability of these movies on Blu-ray SUCKS! Of course the new seasons of Twin Peaks and The X-files on Blu-ray are a must! Nowadays ~75 % of what I order online is Blu-rays while I have bought only ONE classical CD this year (Silvestrov's Metamusik/Postludium).

I don't even know how to stream movies. I am old-fashioned. I want to own stuff physically. Streaming services can at any time delete something from their collections. If I pay for something I want 100 % control over it!