When was the last time you played a DVD/CD/VHS

Shiraz 4.99 · 12-08-2014 8:59am #1

On a visit to the attic last night I spotted our old boxed up DVD collection.
I remember putting them up here the time of the heavy snow which was Dec 2010, they probably hadn't been played for a few years before that.

I've kids that have never played a CD or DVD in their lives, the latest laptop we purchased didn't even come with an optical drive.

I never thought I'd witness the death of physical media in my lifetime, the artwork, the booklet, the notes, the feel of the package used to ad to the experience yet we found it easy to say goodbye once the ease of downloading took over.

Anyway, what was the last time you played a piece of physical media ?.

SuperGrover · 12-08-2014 9:02am

The other day.

cena · 12-08-2014 9:02am

The weekend before last. Watching the box set of the x_files. Have it on DVD for two years or more and only on season 4

Minjor · 12-08-2014 9:03am

DVD, a few weeks ago. Still buy CDs. VHS, its probably been years.

Phil_Lives · 12-08-2014 9:05am

CD - 2 days ago
DVD - Last Week.
I gave away my entire VHS collection and VCR on Adverts for free about four years ago.

osarusan · 12-08-2014 9:12am

CD - lasty night in the car.

DVD - played one for the kids a couple of days ago.

VHS - can't remember. The last time I went near a VCR was to remove some food from it that my son hid there to pretend he'd eaten it.

mad muffin · 12-08-2014 9:12am

I'm still using 8 tracks and Betamax.

orchidsrpretty · 12-08-2014 9:19am

It's definatly been a few years at least. My boyfriends niece(7) came across a VHS tape the other day and asked what it was. She looked so confused when I explained it was a film! Made me feel really old!

Green Giant · 12-08-2014 9:19am

Watched a DVD on Saturday. Still more likely to opt for a DVD than use Netflix or a streaming website.

Only really listen to CDs when driving, most recently at the weekend.

Last watched a VHS a year and a half ago when copying to a blank DVD.

Azteccoffee · 12-08-2014 9:20am

Watch dvds all the time

c_man · 12-08-2014 9:25am

I can't remember for any of them tbh. Actually the only device I have that could even play CDs or DVDs is my 360.

kfallon · 12-08-2014 9:26am

DVD - 2 weeks ago!
CD - prob a month ago
VHS - God knows!

gerrybbadd · 12-08-2014 9:27am

CD - Yesterday

DVD - Last Week

VHS - 3 Weeks ago.

I too have a massive collection of DVD's. They take up so much room!

Tabnabs · 12-08-2014 9:28am

http://www.1023bob.com/files/age-test-cassette-tape-and-pencil.jpg

that is all

nullzero · 12-08-2014 9:29am

Digital media is still relevant.
Analogue media hasn't been relevant for almost a decade and a half.
Streaming is handy but physical media will be with us for a while to come.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-08-2014 9:32am

My pornography collection is DVD based

Mal-Adjusted · 12-08-2014 9:43am

DVD yesterday
CD Sunday
VHS god knows

TPD · 12-08-2014 9:52am

VHS, no idea. DVD... no idea, but more recently than VHS. CD, this morning - car came with a cd player but no aux connection, will be getting rid once they come back in to aldi or lidl.

jimgoose · 12-08-2014 9:58am

Last week. The Gypsy Kings live in concert at Kenwood House. Great show. :cool:

stimpson · 12-08-2014 9:59am

I have a HP microserver in my home office that will stream full bitrate BluRay rips to my smart tv running plex over gigabit Ethernet. I have one laptop that has a DVD drive and that's the only optical drive in the house. I just got a think pad Carbon X1 Ultrabook from work and I'm thinking of ditching the old MacBook.

jimgoose · 12-08-2014 10:07am

stimpson wrote: »

I have a HP microserver in my home office that will stream full bitrate BluRay rips to my smart tv running plex over gigabit Ethernet. I have one laptop that has a DVD drive and that's the only optical drive in the house. I just got a think pad Carbon X1 Ultrabook from work and I'm thinking of ditching the old MacBook.

...and there's still fcuk-all on the television, I bet! :pac::pac::pac:

BeerWolf · 12-08-2014 10:10am

Would throwing them about like Frisbees count? If so, no to long ago! :pac:

[Was clearing out all PC-CD/DVDs, a lot of them dating as far back as 1992...]

Darkglasses · 12-08-2014 10:14am

DVD two days ago, VHS about two weeks ago. Could be months since I played a cd though.

KungPao · 12-08-2014 10:14am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

My pornography collection is DVD based

Really? They're hard to hide!

Mine is most definitely in a non-physical format...which somehow ended up in a hidden folder in my user profile in a folder called "sys~32_DOC$" :pac:

Well, I tell a lie, I actually deleted it all a while back *sheds a tear*

Firefox11 · 12-08-2014 10:14am

nullzero wrote: »

Digital media is still relevant.
Analogue media hasn't been relevant for almost a decade and a half.
Streaming is handy but physical media will be with us for a while to come.

Analogue Media such as vinyl is making a small comeback since it just sounds better than a compressed digital sound in many ways.

That said ever since I got my Wi Fi/USB enabled Smart TV last year I have not played a DVD since. High Speed Broadband is also a factor.

jimgoose · 12-08-2014 10:15am

jimgoose wrote: »

Last week. The Gypsy Kings live in concert at Kenwood House. Great show. :cool:

That was a DVD by the way. I have a six-way CD changer in the car and I use that just about every day.

KungPao · 12-08-2014 10:17am

I played Vice City (from CD-ROM) on my laptop over the weekend. Looked great with everything turned up to 11, I couldn't do that back when I bought it in 2003-ish.

12-08-2014 10:20am

DVD - Yesterday Afternoon
Blu-Ray - Last night
CD- This morning while making breakfast
Vinyl - Sunday afternoon
VHS - Couple of weeks back when I bought the The Return Of Josey Wales

Psychical media isn't dead, it's just not as popular as it once was. That HMV stores are thriving over here says quite a lot. Since it reopened in Galway a few weeks back the store has been constantly busy and one of the staff told me they are doing better business now than before.

KungPao · 12-08-2014 10:32am

Deleted User wrote: »

DVD - Yesterday Afternoon
Blu-Ray - Last night
CD- This morning while making breakfast
Vinyl - Sunday afternoon
VHS - Couple of weeks back when I bought the The Return Of Josey Wales

Psychical media isn't dead, it's just not as popular as it once was. That HMV stores are thriving over here says quite a lot. Since it reopened in Galway a few weeks back the store has been constantly busy and one of the staff told me they are doing better business now than before.

I imagine kids have little interest in it though? Kids growing up will probably have little infinity with the "touch" and "ritual" of having physical media, so it ain't dead but surely it's dying. For them it's all about bloody iTunes and NetFlix...everything a click away.

12-08-2014 10:39am

KungPao wrote: »

I imagine kids have little interest in it though? Kids growing up will probably have little infinity with the "touch" and "ritual" of having physical media, so it ain't dead but surely it's dying. For them it's all about bloody iTunes and NetFlix...everything a click away.

I don't know, I often see kids and teenagers in HMV and the like with CDs or DVDs in their hands. It's going to be a long time before psychical media dies, that many parts of the world don't have broadband good enough to accommodate streaming will play a huge part in keeping psychical sales alive. Streaming a film or TV show is all well and good but until you can get compression less versions then it's not going to take off like DVD did. There's also a lot of music and film fans who enjoy special features, a company such as Masters of Cinema put a lot of love and time into crafting extras for their releases and I know that as long as they continue to do so, I'll continue to buy their products. I'd also imagine that a lot of people like myself, enjoying have a collection of media that they can pick from. A few files on a hard drive just isn't the same as having a few hundred Blu-Rays on shelves.

c_man · 12-08-2014 10:42am

Deleted User wrote: »

A few files on a hard drive just isn't the same as having a few hundred Blu-Rays on shelves.

God I hate clutter. A little anonymous server is heaven for the likes of me.

Judgement Day · 12-08-2014 10:47am

DVD - last night (24 Series 6) and frequently.

VHS not for a while as my player's heads need replacing....and I have some brand new VHS movies that I'm dying to watch. Seriously tempted to buy a new VHS/DVD combi while they are still available. Many worthwhile movies have never made it to DVD.

CD - never was big into them and while I still have some I'm more inclined to delve into my Grooveshark library.

LPs - still have a few and occasionally toy with the idea of getting a new player but will probably never get round to it. Now a Jukebox, with full visibility of the workings, full of 1970s 45s...that's a different matter and on my wants list.

12-08-2014 10:50am

c_man wrote: »

God I hate clutter. A little anonymous server is heaven for the likes of me.

I have close to 1000 Blu-Rays on shelves and it doesn't look cluttered at all. In fact it looks rather nice and I often find myself losing half an hour going through them trying to decide what I want to watch.

Decuc500 · 12-08-2014 10:54am

Blu-ray is better video quality than streaming hd and the audio quality is way better.
And you get bonus features. And there's a better choice of films.
Why would I give that up?

KungPao · 12-08-2014 10:55am

Deleted User wrote: »

I have close to 1000 Blu-Rays on shelves and it doesn't look cluttered at all. In fact it looks rather nice and I often find myself losing half an hour going through them trying to decide what I want to watch.

The correct answer is Midnight Run, it's always time to watch that.

Sephiroth_dude · 12-08-2014 10:56am

Last year for vhs,I was watching some films from manga collection,angel cop,fist of the north star,cyber city :-D

Links234 · 12-08-2014 11:06am

Last time I put on a DVD was Sunday morning, CD maybe the other day? I don't know

Don't really buy many DVDs anymore, but if there's a good anime series, I'll probably want to get that on Bluray.

Dravokivich · 12-08-2014 11:09am

Cd, would have been last week, after getting bored of listening to radio in the kitchen.

Dvd would have been within the last couple of months. Vhs too.

My kid is going to know all about rewinding the tape when finished!

KungPao · 12-08-2014 11:10am

Links234 wrote: »

Last time I put on a DVD was Sunday morning

Live aus Berlin?

Links234 wrote: »

CD maybe the other day? I don't know

Live aus Berlin, wasn't it? :P

eisenberg1 · 12-08-2014 11:12am

mad muffin wrote: »

I'm still using 8 tracks and Betamax.

I am probably the only one here who knows what you are talking about:D

On par with asking a young person to "wind the window down" in the car....

jimgoose · 12-08-2014 11:14am

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I am probably the only one here who knows what you are talking about:D...

I wouldn't bet on it!

Avada · 12-08-2014 11:14am

I watch DVDs pretty regularly. I like to collect boxsets, I'd miss them if they were gone completely

The Drunken Destrier · 12-08-2014 11:16am

CDs every day, DVDs not very often. And when I get the chance every few weeks, some vinyl. Nothing like poring over the artwork and notes with some beer while you listen.

Maximus Alexander · 12-08-2014 11:20am

Watched a couple of DVDs on the weekend. Haven't touch a CD since Spotify though.

Dravokivich · 12-08-2014 11:22am

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I am probably the only one here who knows what you are talking about:D

On par with asking a young person to "wind the window down" in the car....

Wind'em down? I remember popping the windows out!

Links234 · 12-08-2014 11:24am

One thing people don't seem to think about when they're looking at the likes of netflix is that it's all well and good for popular shows and movies, but once you get into more niche interests, they're not great. I remember on another forum people were giving out loads because they were watching Farscape on netflix and then all of a sudden the whole show was gone, or someone on boards was asking for a recommendation of a good anime show available on netflix, and people were saying there was sweet **** all on there.

Salmon Leap · 12-08-2014 11:24am

DVD last weekend, but buying BluRay mostly now.
CDs most days in the car
VHS about 6 years ago

eisenberg1 · 12-08-2014 11:27am

CD very regularly in the car, but hard to beat the Ipod on a long drive ( no fluting about trying to put CDs back in cases
DVD a few times over last weekend
VHS, not in years.

I also uses a Kindle, but still have a lot of books. I love the idea of books and CDs on shelves, I always find when you are in someones home for the first time, you can get a good idea of the type of person they really are by looking at their collections.

Tokyo · 12-08-2014 11:29am

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I am probably the only one here who knows what you are talking about:D

On par with asking a young person to "wind the window down" in the car....

I think you underestimate the ages of a lot of posters here

I still have a reel-to-reel that I use now and again, plus a betamax player that's sitting in a press somewhere, still in working order. You'd be surprised when they come in handy - I've been asked by a few people over the years to encode various old formats to something that they can play on their computer.

And I've had the pop out windows (Datsun Cherry) and the slidey-to-one-side windows (Renault 4). 'Wind the window down'... pfft, we could only dream of such things

Dravokivich · 12-08-2014 11:29am

Links234 wrote: »

One thing people don't seem to think about when they're looking at the likes of netflix is that it's all well and good for popular shows and movies, but once you get into more niche interests, they're not great. I remember on another forum people were giving out loads because they were watching Farscape on netflix and then all of a sudden the whole show was gone, or someone on boards was asking for a recommendation of a good anime show available on netflix, and people were saying there was sweet **** all on there.

Yeah, thats something a bit annoying about netflix, my issue isnt so much the library overall, but the availability periods of items within it. You kinda never know whether or not to get stuck into something that'll run for a while.

eisenberg1 · 12-08-2014 11:33am

Dravokivich wrote: »

Wind'em down? I remember popping the windows out!

Or "Fly" windows, ideal for emptying an ashtray full of Woodbine butts out on the road:D

When was the last time you played a DVD/CD/VHS

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