Does it still make sense to buy DVD and Blu-ray over digital downloads?

Yeah, I agree. I'm much more judicious with my purchases now than when the format first came out. I used to buy near everything I liked. No more.

 

presently I get used DVDs for 85 cents to a buck each! It's crazy. I cannot stop buying them! hey! I can always sell them back for a quarter each! LOL!

 

More like, try to locate specific disk (you might have hundreds), load, hit play (hopefully it will not have disk rot), wait for unskippable crap to finish, watch.

Convenience is the main factor I think. And of course, the under 25 'crowd' already has significant purchasing power which will only increase as they get older and they have children themselves.

 

that made me laugh...in a good way. there have been times I experienced a DVD that refused to play...still the track record has been pretty good.

 

I think the idea that the under-25 crowd is only going to want to stream movies and music and never actually "own" anything is a mistake. Once they do have income and want to share the Harry Potter series with their kids, only to find that the streaming license on Netflix has expired, they're going to want a physical copy too.

 

Media will still be more convenient than managing disk space, system configuration settings, backups, security management, network configuration, patch updates, driver updates, performance tuning for simultaneous user access, endless updating of metadata and file management, clip art, folder management.

 

That's a bit of a straw-man argument. No one has ever claimed that EVERYONE will be happy to stream/dl, but the was majority will and that's the trend we're talking about here. It has never been an all-or-nothing argument.

 

Could you have included hexadecimal core dump analysis in that list too! It's really not that hard.

 

I can agree with the convenience factor...which is big.

 

I'll be goddamned if I ever pay for a digital download of a TV show or a movie.

 

Depends. There's organizing, and then there's organizing completely. Remember the audience here who is used to sorting CDs by pressing plant.

 

I do own a few digital copies of certain movies via Google play. Although they do look good on my Note 3 screen size, I prefer Blu Rays. I am with the other 99% that prefer the same.

 

No, not for me. I have most of my collection on Vudu now and love the convenience of streaming whenever I want. The quality is excellent, too. I'll only buy Blu-rays if they are cheap, then I'll use the code and sell the disc.

 

You mean movies only right? no musical dvd's or blu-rays like Metallica or Queen right? cause you can't buy the extras on those most of the times so i'm still buying.

The last movie i bought on blu-ray was melancholia but only because i love that movie and Dunst but that was 3 years ago...

 

Most likely alternative to a purchase to me is using on demand feature on cable

 

To me yes yes yes

 

I love the full DVD quality (720x480). Blu-ray too but, there is some kind of "warmth" in that DVD image (really!)

I don't like streaming because you depend on your internet connection. And HD requires a lot of bandwidth. Not too convenient.

And the discs include some very nice extra features too

Plus, it's impossible to find all the videos you want in the digital download version. And most of them are lossy files that look awful in a big HD screen.

Well, not even on DVD/Blu-ray you can get everything you want. Artists should offer DVD-quality VOB file downloads of their videos. Where can I get a DVD-quality "Rock Me Amadeus" video, for example?

 

They've also been conditioned not to care about quality. (And I'm not be snarky.)

 

But it will be. Very soon.

 

Without discs there won't be any competition for streaming to keep its act together (let alone optimizing its potential). Digital only is no good.

 

Right? If they even allow people "own" these files at all in the first place.

 

The world will never know.

 

That's what the digital providers want to happen---nobody actually owning anything---consumers endlessly re-"renting" the same thing over and over again.

 

That's true in a sense, but the alternative way to look at it is you pay a monthly fee for a service which gives you access to as much media as you can consume, any time you wish. I think that's the model they're ultimately going for.

 

I think they do want that, but I also keep hearing that the millennials grew up not owning anything and would never want to own movies or music themsleves.