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Chewbacca Tue 23-Oct-18 12:10:14

John Lewis pulls the plug on DVD players

I've still got a mountain of old tapes for a VCR that I kept meaning to transfer to DVD and never got around to. Now the DVD player is becoming obsolete, I'll have a mountain of those too. I've never subscribed to Netflix or the like and have no plans to start now. I'll mourn the passing of a DVD film. sad

Jalima1108 Tue 23-Oct-18 12:14:40

We've still got some VHS tapes too which we haven't got round to converting to DVD
Plus some old cine film which DH took

Bridgeit Tue 23-Oct-18 12:18:28

Me too Chewbacca, I like my DVD player & don’t want to start streaming .
It’s similar to CDs we are encouraged to download to devices, but I like having the discs & covers especially for use in the car.
Defo getting old ????

MiniMoon Tue 23-Oct-18 13:13:43

Our DVD player bit the dust some years ago and we didn't replace it. We now subscribe to Amazon prime video on the TV. I don't miss the DVD p later very often, but I do have Field of Dreams on DVD that I would like to re-watch occasionally.

SueDonim Tue 23-Oct-18 13:18:01

You’ll still be able to play DVD’s on Blu Ray players.

Willow500 Tue 23-Oct-18 13:32:43

We've also got dozens of DVDs which we don't watch and hundreds of CD's we don't listen to. I'm sure there will still be a means of playing them for a while to come yet and then it will all come back round again, I bought my husband a record player last year to play the old vinyls we have although so far haven't used that either.

stree Tue 23-Oct-18 13:35:29

I have about 1000 movies on USB
Not used CD or DVD for years

Alima Tue 23-Oct-18 13:36:10

We have had our DVD player since 2006. Hardly used the blooming thing, so slow and clunky compared to a video recorder. Won’t mourn the loss of DVDs at all. (What goes round etc. They are selling LPs in the local supermarket. 16 quid a pop!?)

Teetime Tue 23-Oct-18 14:07:11

We put all our DVDs in a charity shop in the summer.

rockgran Tue 23-Oct-18 14:18:12

My Mac has no CD/DVD slot - quite annoying if I need to use one. They expect you to buy a DVD player separately to keep the lines sleek. hmm

Oldwoman70 Tue 23-Oct-18 14:23:41

Streaming films is all well and good IF you have a good internet speed. If, like me, you live in a rural area that isn't the case. If a family member sends me a video online I can go away and make a cup of coffee whilst it is downloading!

Jalima1108 Wed 24-Oct-18 12:07:09

They are selling LPs in the local supermarket. 16 quid a pop!?)
Ooh! But I bet they won't want most of the ones we have
and anything that could be worth having DD would like - please smile

I used to make plant pot holders out of them, oh dear.