Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’, despite blocking thousands of illegal streaming sites, has failed boost viewership for legal services like DAZN.
Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’, despite blocking thousands of illegal streaming sites, has failed boost viewership for legal services like DAZN.
Where are you finding DVDs in 2025?
Thrift stores for less than a dollar each usually in 10 for $5 type deals. multi disc sets are your friend and sometimes they don’t differentiate between DVD and blue ray either, I’ve got quite a few blu rays this way.
DVDs are where VHS was about a decade ago, get what you can while it’s cheap. I even got a pile for free when a pawn shop was dumping stock to get out of the market.
Also DVDs are still being pressed because there’s no licensing fee on the format so it’s still profitable to make new ones.
Fair enough, but you’re talking about replacing streaming services with DVDs, and unless you’re relegating yourself to SD content made over a decade ago and prior, you’re going to have a rough time.
There are much better ways, and that involves the high seas.
I have a lot of DVDs that are not currently to be found on the high seas, there are certain things I would upgrade to blu ray at the right price but for the most part you have different masters or cuts or colour grading and there are certainly things recorded in SD that are never getting a blu ray release, like concerts or other live events, because there is no high def master. I even buy concerts on VHS when I find them.
I’m a firm believer in physical media even if that media is a spinning disk in my NAS.
My physical media collection isn’t replacing streaming, jellyfin is.
Very True at my thrift store i work at all media; books, cd, dvd, blue-ray are all 50¢, unless priced (Very Rare)