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Your preferred method of watching movies/shows?

Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:29 pm
Posted by randomways
North Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
12988 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:29 pm
My wife has been teasing me this evening about my obstinate insistence on owning DVDs/Blu Rays. I just don't trust digital media, torrents, and streaming (and, yes, I know that DVDs/Blu Rays are technically digital, but you know what I mean.) I'll watch On Demand and DVRed stuff, but if I want a movie or show, I still buy the DVDs and Blu Rays. In other words, I'm a small-town boy who likes to own tangible objects that aren't subject to the whims of cyberspace, Internet connections, and hard drive crashes. She, on the other hand, is a big city girl who embraces the future, dotes on her broadband, knows what the hell a 'torrent' is, and trusts the cloud. So I'm curious about what people here think. How do y'all generally watch movies and TV shows, how do you prefer to store them if you want to own them, and, just for reference, what general age range do you fall into?



(I may be a hypocrite, incidentally, because I have no problem with keeping my music in my phone/computer. I haven't bought a hard-copy form of music in a couple years and that was an LP pressed by a band a friend of mine plays bass for.)
Posted by lsufan9193969700
3 miles from B.R.
Member since Sep 2003
55141 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:30 pm to
I use my eyes.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142507 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:32 pm to
quote:

She, on the other hand, is a big city girl who embraces the future, dotes on her broadband, knows what the hell a 'torrent' is, and trusts the cloud
pics of this up-to-date bitch
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:39 pm to
DVD/br...Netflix, theater.
Posted by MasCervezas
Ocean Springs
Member since Jul 2013
7958 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:46 pm to
I like to watch movies in nothing but socks
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
36108 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:56 pm to
In a Slanket with your mom.
Posted by constant cough
Lafayette
Member since Jun 2007
44788 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 11:20 pm to
quote:

knows what the hell a 'torrent' is



I'm still amazed that there are people who don't know what a torrent is.

It's like the last decade or so just never happened to them.
Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
Member since Jun 2007
21867 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 11:32 pm to
Roku box hooked up to TV.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98380 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 11:38 pm to
I watch five minutes, get distracted by something else, and forget to go back to it.
Posted by CocoLoco
Member since Jan 2012
29108 posts
Posted on 6/2/15 at 11:44 pm to
I rent from my xbox from stuff like Vudu.

Or I use Netflix/HBO GO. If I REALLY like the movie, then I'll purchase a hard copy.
Posted by ellunchboxo
Gtown
Member since Feb 2009
18833 posts
Posted on 6/3/15 at 5:07 am to
I also have a Blu Ray problem.
Posted by Rebel Land Shark
Member since Jul 2013
30175 posts
Posted on 6/3/15 at 5:15 am to
Whichever way I feel like
Posted by JimMorrison
The Peninsula
Member since May 2012
20747 posts
Posted on 6/3/15 at 6:46 am to
That was a lot of text to say you like to have dvds.

I stream pretty much all of my content. Random Redbox movies here and there, though.
Posted by CockHolliday
Columbia, SC
Member since Dec 2012
4523 posts
Posted on 6/3/15 at 8:46 am to
Al Bundy style
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
150886 posts
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:27 am to
quote:

randomways

I'm a lot like you in that I also love the physical, tangible aspect of DVDs and the such. However, I also embrace technoligical advances as well, just not as much as some do.

For example, I somewhat "collect" movies and own about 1,500 movies in tangible form (VHS, DVDs, etc.), but also have used torrents before, stream movies still in theaters, as well as recently getting into Netflix somewhat.

Now, for movies that I like, and want own, I will still buy the DVDs. But things like torrents and streaming allow me to watch movies faster than waiting for DVDs (and in some cases while the movie is still in theaters), but if I really like them I will eventually buy a hard copy of them. Also, things like Netflix allow me to watch what I'd call "marginal" movies...movies that I don't really know if I'd like enough to want to purchase/own, or movies that I wouldn't really normally have watched (because I didn't buy them), but will watch given their availability on things like Netflix.

So I guess I'm sort of a hybrid of both types, leaning a little more on the old-fashioned side in that I still like having physical, hard copies of movies/shows that I like.
quote:

and, just for reference, what general age range do you fall into?

ETA: I'm 35.
This post was edited on 6/3/15 at 10:32 am
Posted by Das Jackal
Da Bayou
Member since Sep 2011
2600 posts
Posted on 6/3/15 at 2:53 pm to
I stopped buying discs about 8 months ago. Now I use Amazon Instant Video and Netflix.
This post was edited on 6/3/15 at 3:01 pm
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