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Do you still buy DVDs? Why or why not?

Question: Do you still buy DVDs? Why or why not?When VCRs first came out I bought a Sony Betamax and started recording movies from my HBO and Showtime cable subscriptions and also bought some titles on prerecorded Beta tapes.Eventually the VHS format won the VHS vs Beta tape war causing prerecorded movies to only be available on VHS. After both of my Betamax VCRs died I gave in and bought a VHS VCR forcing me to replace my prerecorded Beta movies with the same titles on VHS.Now along comes DVDs. By this time I had ~500 titles in my VHS library along with a few titles still on Beta that were never available on VHS. Because the picture quality of DVDs, even on my, at the time, SD (Standard Definition) TV, was so much better than VHS I slowly replaced my VHS titles with DVD when available.Then I found out about a little company called Netflix. I was able to rent movies on DVD and the title(s) were delivered in the mail within two days. At this point I basically stopped buying movies on DVDs.I later bought a new gadget called a Roku which allows me to instantly watch online movies on Netflix without having to wait for a DVD to be mailed to me.Using my Roku I now buy movies from Amazon which are stored on Amazon’s servers so I can watch them anytime at no additional cost.Currently I have ~1,750 titles in my video library most of which are on DVD, but unlike the Beta to VHS switchover I now have too many titles and too little money to get the online digital versions of all my current DVDs. Yes, I’ll admit I am lazy and when I want to watch a movie I would much rather prefer to simply press a couple of buttons on my Roku remote rather than taking the time to find then load a movie into my DVD player………..first world problems abound.I have ripped (copied) a handful of my favorite non-copyguarded DVDs to my NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives but I do not have the patience or desire to rip my entire 1,750+ library.So with very few exceptions I no longer buy movies on DVD choosing instead to purchase the online digital version of new releases.

If you already have the DVD version of a movie, will you still buy the same movie in the Blu-ray version?

Not only have I done that many times, I’m now starting to replace a select few of my Blu-rays with 4K UHD Blu-rays as well. It can drive my wife nuts.For me, the difference between DVD and Blu-ray is huge. Obviously the picture resolution is a lot better, and I no longer see the MPEG compression in the DVD which is nice, but the sound quality is also typically a lot better on a Blu-ray than a DVD, which is one of the big reasons I like to upgrade.As for 4K UHD Blu-rays, the differences are much less noticeable. I’ve only been upgrading a few of my movies that I know have noticeably better quality in their 4K UHD counterparts… so far I’ve updated the Dark Knight Trilogy, since it was filmed on IMAX film and thus the resolution difference is noticeable. I also purchased The Matrix on 4K UltraHD Blu-ray, which is the fourth copy of the film I’ve owned (I owned the DVD, then upgraded to the Blu-ray, and then when there was a good deal on the trilogy box set on Blu-ray I couldn’t pass that up, and that included the third copy of The Matrix I’d owned.) I’d also double-dip for Vertigo if it became available in 4K UHD HDR, and there would be a handful of other favourite films that I’d consider re-purchasing in a higher resolution.So yes, I have bought the same movie in Blu-ray that I already owned on DVD. I’ve even bought some of those movies again in 4K UltraHD Blu-ray.