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It's sad we can't buy people media anymore. Most don't have a way to play CDs or DVDs!
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
It's sad we can't buy people media anymore. Most don't have a way to play CDs or DVDs!
- danielbln 2y agoThere are some real hard truths about not being able to own physical media, but purely in terms of UX, on-demand streaming blows anything else out of the water. I can stream any children's audiobook under the son to my daughter's Bluetooth speaker in a whim, instead of shuffling through a bunch of optical media that break easily, and for my own purposes I don't have to have a physical player, space to store the media, etc. Maybe the best of both worlds would be to rip everything to a Plex server and have the originals in the basement.
- onecommentman 2y agoUsing the phrase “real hard truth” and “optical media that break easily” in the same post made my eyes cross. Are you referring to glass plate negatives from early 19th C. photography? And storing 400 DVDs in a binder takes about 1 cu ft of storage, and DVD players are $30 and the size of a hardback book. Your best of both worlds proposal sounds right, though.
- t-3 2y agoMost? I find that very hard to believe. Only the latest generation of consoles and a few late models of the last generation have no disc drives. Plenty of people will still have PS* and Xbox-n with disc drives, not to mention a lot of people will have 30-year-old Walkman CD players and 20-year-old set-top DVD players in their garages that still work. I have several working computers that have working DVD drives. My car still has a CD player. If all else fails, new USB-connected drives are still purchasable for very cheap prices.
- infecto 2y agoI don't have anything that can play a DVD or a Blu-ray. It is a lot more common than you think. A lot of people don't game or they don't game on console.
- onecommentman 2y agoNew DVD players are available (HDMI) for $30 online. Pick up a couple for the price of a mediocre meal + delivery. Literally plug and play.
- infecto 2y agoI don't want one and neither do the majority of consumers. Hence why most people don't have media players anymore.
- elzbardico 2y agoI donate most equipment that I don't use regularly. Most people I know do even worse: They throw stuff away in the garbage. My old PS4 and XBox-X got donated, and then I bought a discless series-S because I am a casual gamer, and game pass is cheap and good enough for me, as most AAA exclusive games on PS are now woke boring trash. If my life depended on playing an old DVD I would probably die.
- scarface_74 2y agoWhy do you care about buying CDs? Music you pay for has been DRM free since 2009 from all of the stores including Apple’s.