Home audio & video forum: Poll: Do you still buy DVD or Blu-ray discs today?

I get everything from the internet.

I get everything for free,then I shares everything also for free..

i prefer renting DVDs or BRDiscs to watching streaming.
better overall experience with a home theater with surround sound and no streaming glitches. Faster search if i want to see a chapter,

If I like a DVD I'll buy it

I don't buy many but I get them from Netflix. This is still the best way to get 1080P resolution on your TV. I cannot understand why someone would pay the top dollars for a state of the art HI DEF 1080p TV and then go to Netflix and stream a movie which comes in at maybe DVD quality or less. The only reason I would do that is if I absolutely need to see the movie instantly and can't wait the two days to get a 1080p disk.

I still buy Bluerays for my collections because i have never found downloaded or streamed copies of movies to ever give the same quality of picture and especially not the same sound quality. I really enjoy sitting in my home theatre and watching/listening just a movie theatre. The internet sound does not offer 7.1 channels of info in its mixes. Until I can confidently get a sound wireless connection to work with out drop outs or degregation in the picture and sound quality I will keep on buying and renting Blue ray! Some of my friends and co workers talk about these pirated copies of first run movies that they download from the interent that are obvious recorded versions from the theatre. Someone sitting with a video camera taping the show. Not my kinda entertainment.

I occasionally will buy a DVD, if it is one that I have seen, & I really enjoyed the movie, or concert, & I know I will want to see it again, or share it with family, & friends. I will also buy digital copies of movies,& TV shows, so I can watch them as time allows. I enjoy streaming movies, & TV shows, as well as borrowing them from the library, or renting them from Redbox.

You never own digital content, unless you back it up and that only if the digital content was received on recordable medium. Having a DVD or BluRay disc is proof of ownership. But BluRay is not only more secure for purchased content, but in native HD as well. DVD's are only upscaled.

Along with this simple quality difference; DVD is recorded on top of the surface and is therefore more vulnerable to damage. Whereas BluRay laser is recorded to the medium down in the groove etched in the medium. So naturally it's better protected and less prone to being damaged or rendered unplayable by finger prints, scratches, magnetic contact, etc. Now we get to the best part of a BluRay Disc over DVD's. Per Gig of storage is now cheaper than DVD's, you change discs less often even in HD and the discs has this marvelous coating that makes it near impossible to damage!

Anyone who isn't using BluRay over DVD's is missing out and bought into the falacy of DVD's being a better purchase. For content providers..... yes... it is better. Because they know the majority of users fail to back up their DVD purchases and they're actually happy you didn't buy BluRay Movies. Since if you had the chances are you won't need to back them up in the first place. BluRay was an archiving format before it was a movie format and Sony wanted to make sure you either didn't need to make backups and are still attempting to take away that ability they won for us in VHS Content lawsuit in the 80's, that they won for us!!!

In the land of download limits and at best ADSL2+, digital doesn't work for me - one long HD movie blows my download limit for the month! That said, I don't buy many disks, not that big a movie fan but I do have a small collection, mostly Birthday and Christmas gifts that I want to keep for posterity.

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As you get older, (i am 63) having more "stuff" around is of diminishing importance. That includes hard copies of anything. I can get what I need online without any hassle.I bought my bluray when they first came out and I think I have used it and my older DVD player only 2 or 3 times. Less physical materials around the house means less pollution down the road.

Yes I have to buy DVDs. As presently, I have a very narrow specialised musical /film interest in playback in DTS and THX systems in 4:1, 5:1 and 7:1 (or even 9:1 sound but that is from the Amplifier selection) if this hardware format has to change all my Audio equipment would be made redundant overnight. Presently I have no other choice and luckily in the UK there has been no movement away from DVDs of that hardware that I am aware of.
We are also watching the very slow change over to DAB radio, but officially there has been no announcement to the full change over. If ever it will!

Have switched to buying more Blu-Ray, like the extra content, the inclusion of the digital and DVD version. Currently have over 2000 DVD/Blu-Ray in our home collection and while digital is fine, there is no way to route the movie to the other rooms in the house, or out to my woodshop, etc. Cloud storage is great, but what happens when a stiff wind blows the cloud away - there goes all my movies I've paid for. Nope, plan to stick to the physical version until petabyte storage is available on my home network. Have 16TB on-line at home now, but I don't want it all used up for movies and then how do I recover from an HD failure?
Digital is a nice feature and handy for loading the phone or Tablet, but long term retention just doesn't suit the format for the home user at this point in time. Put all your eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and see what happens----same results with digital files. Anyone who has lost a HD knows the hassle and time required to recover just the stuff you remember was on the drive, much less the stuff that just disappears.
Still buy CD's too, for the same reason, easier to rip to digital that to lose connection to the cloud and watch all my music become unavailable when I wanted to listen to it.

Never blu-ray, as dvd Q is great enough for us. Downloading too slow & tedious, and requires online financial transaction: risky. HD tv's show more detail than we care to see. Our large screen glass crt tv works perfect, - why junk it? Besides it shows movies, especially old ones and black/white, the way they were meant to be seen. HD ruins their appearance!

Streaming is not mature and has several failure points that decrease the enjoyment compared to BD. Amazon offers only 720p HD and not 1080p as found on a BD disc. Plus streaming on my 20 MB Cox Communications cable connection often loses the connection or has other issues. VUDU offers 1080p HD but my cable connection can't reliably handle the extra bandwidth. This is living in a major metro area ( Phoenix ). Many folks not in major areas have even less bandwidth and no real chance to enjoy a streamed movie. Keep in mind internet connections in the USA are much slower than in other parts of the world, so what they do there is not always so easy to accomplish here.

I'm agreeing with Danny Sullivan and have gone totally digital. I used to have a lot of CD/DVD movies sitting around but not anymore. With video on demand through my cable provider or streaming over the internet, any movie or tv series I watch are readily available so keeping "hard copies" really doesn't make sense. The only things I use DVD's for now is to save a computer program or maybe some family photos and I'm even starting to use flash drives more for those. That's my penny's worth....Digger