If I had to collect, it would be vinyl. If all DVD's had no player, we'd be screwed. With vinyl however, you might be able to find someone clever enough to whip up some sort of mechanical/electrical solution to extract the sounds.
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They’re likely at the point of not just wanting to own things but not being able to afford subs. .
I don’t care for the medium, I just want to watch my shows. In Canada we get basically the same shows as the US, but many are not available for streaming. So I want to watch Danny Phantom for example, I can’t. It’s not on any channel not streaming services.
And the same goes for dozens of other shows ranging from obscure like Martin Mystery to the ultra popular like The Fairly Odd Parents.
Heck even Disney doesn’t have everything.
DVD does and it cost less than most of these services.
I wonder why specifically DVDs... It's not like with audio formats where the experience is almost as or even more important than the quality; Blu-Ray delivers far better quality with the same experience. If they were into Laserdisc I'd understand, but DVD?
They're not even that much more expensive. Maybe the initial cost of getting a player is higher?
There's a reason it's called Blu-Ray DVD
Personally I never upgraded from DVD to Bluray because of the costs and DRM. And while I waited for those to be solved streaming got good enough.
Perhaps these kids' parents are the same, so they just use what they have.
Or the article's author just calls every video disc a DVD.
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