How do you watch movies at home?

[Mono]

I get it. For me personally, I didn't like owning a lot of DVDs I only watched once. Owning them took up too much space in my head. So I only kept my favorites that I have watched a lot over the years.

As a kid, my parents would rent us a movie frequently. So they paid for a single movie. I look back on that very fondly and would watch the movie at least 2-3 times before we'd return it. I now prefer streaming due to mental space and comparing to the old VHS renting, it feels like a better deal to me. Though I have to say I mostly watch TV series. I find it harder and harder to invest into characters for a 2 hour movie and then move on. I prefer to spend a lot more time with them.

I'm with you on having wanted some content to be released. I definitely would have bought Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. I was annoyed that it never got released. At the same time, it's a Netflix series and would not have existed without Netflix. Could you list some that you would like to see a release for? It's perfectly fine if you'd rather not, of course.

As for ads, I have Disney Plus (which here also has Hulu, Starz and some other stuff) which has no ads, and Prime sometimes has a trailer for their other content I can skip. I vividly remember some DVDs having non-skippable anti-piracy ads, though. I already bought the DVD, why are they harassing me? That would royally tick me off. Looking back further in time, the VHS rentals had 'ads' as well, in the form of movie trailers. Loved that, though. Kept that intact when I had some of them transferred.

 

[Misty Avich]

I'm with you on having wanted some content to be released. I definitely would have bought Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. I was annoyed that it never got released. At the same time, it's a Netflix series and would not have existed without Netflix. Could you list some that you would like to see a release for? It's perfectly fine if you'd rather not, of course.

The Simpsons series 21+. I'd give anything to own them on box sets. I have series 1-20 on DVD and all of a sudden they stopped releasing them, thinking everyone was happy with streaming instead.
The animated Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. I really wanted to see those.
Hocus Pocus 2. I'm probably the only millennial who hasn't seen it.

As for ads, I have Disney Plus (which here also has Hulu, Starz and some other stuff) which has no ads, and Prime sometimes has a trailer for their other content I can skip. I vividly remember some DVDs having non-skippable anti-piracy ads, though. I already bought the DVD, why are they harassing me? That would royally tick me off. Looking back further in time, the VHS rentals had 'ads' as well, in the form of movie trailers. Loved that, though. Kept that intact when I had some of them transferred.

Many people I know who have Disney Plus say the shows get interrupted with ads even after subscribing and paying monthly. So that put me off, as I've always hated movies being interrupted with ads, due to my short attention span.

Ads on the beginning of DVDs never bothered me really because it's just at the beginning. The movie or episodes never get interrupted by ads. Most DVDs I own I do watch again, and if I know I'm not going to watch them again I just donate them. But there's just something special about physically owning something, especially at Christmas when people give you DVDs as gifts. My brother used to buy me the newest Simpsons box set every Christmas and it really used to make Christmas complete. I do miss that. Box sets can be a collectors item, just like CDs and records are. In fact it's the people that are into records as a hobby that are keeping stores like HMV open.

Yes, DVDs can take up room but so can books, which many people still like to buy and have been common objects in the home for centuries. Speaking of books, the predicament is reversed for me. There are many audiobooks that I want to buy on Audible or Google Books but that only exist as physical books. So the odds seem to be against me here lol.

 

[Mono]

Wow, it never occurred to me that they would stop releasing the Simpsons on DVD. Did not expect that. Simpsons, Wimpy Kid and Hocus Pocus 2 are all Disney, I think? Hocus is a Disney+ movie, not sure it would exist without it. I completely understand you, but I also understand Disney. Still sucks, though...

I don't have any ads on Disney Plus, not before or during a movie or series. Once they add them here, I will insta-cancel my subscription and head straight back to the bay. I am not paying for ads. Prime sometimes shows an ad for one of their other movies or series, but you can skip that the second it pops up.

My first DVDs were the Planet of the Apes classic movies all in one set. With the early FOX DVDs once the first screen would come up, you'd press stop, then press play and it would skip everything and jump right into the movie
Ads on DVDs didn't bother me too much either, ALF even made fun of all the FBI warnings in one of his DVD sets. What rubs me the wrong way is them trying to lecture that I shouldn't steal a DVD, all the while I literally just paid money for said DVD. I get it, my ALF DVD set are special to me like that. My brother would give me the new season each year. I even have 2 versions of the series. Batman Animated Series was very special on DVD to me as well.

Sorry to hear it, hope you have/find the space for it all

 

[TBRS1]

Used to watch Roku, Netflix, and A. Prime.

There is so little new stuff of reasonable quality, though, that I am more likely to look on YouTube for old b&w movies these days.

 

[Judge]

It is amazing to see how fast streaming media is changing how we view entertainment. That those persons known as "cord-cutters" who dropped cable tv in favor of streaming media are changing everything.

And that it seems that streaming film and television at no charge with commercial advertisements is ultimately generating more revenue than paid sub$criptions. Small wonder to see my cable company suddenly add three major streaming channels. Esepcially when over the last few years my cable television watching as diminished to a couple of tv shows and the news, and little else. While it seems there's a whole new world to film and quality television I now have access to.

Funny to recall that years ago I gave up watching all the award shows for film and tv mostly because I could never see them on streaming networks I didn't have access to or sub$cribe to. After all, it seemed as if all the really good programming migrated to streaming services. Now I have most of them, and without paid sub$criptions.

Weird to experience much of any scenario where the consumer wins. Go figure.

 

[Mono]

It is amazing to see how fast streaming media is changing how we view entertainment. That those persons known as "cord-cutters" who dropped cable tv in favor of streaming media are changing everything.

I used to love cable tv, but I did cut the cord over 10 years ago due to reality shows. It was pretty much all that was left, and I freaking hate reality tv. It felt to me like the people behind cable tv changed it, not me. I didn't like the change, so I moved on.

 

[Judge]

I used to love cable tv, but I did cut the cord over 10 years ago due to reality shows. It was pretty much all that was left, and I freaking hate reality tv. It felt to me like the people behind cable tv changed it, not me. I didn't like the change, so I moved on.

Funny to think I have maintained exactly 57 channels of cable television I hardly watch. I could add more, but I was never watching them either, lol. At least the sudden addition of high-quality streaming channels makes the cable tv cost bearable now.

 

[Crossbreed]

In our family, different members maintain different streaming subscriptions and share them with the rest of us. We can do that with software subscriptions, too, like Norton Antivirus & MS-Office.

 

[Heroine of Winds]

Another problem with streaming services is that if a certain show or movie you like watching, it might get removed. There's even times when they remove a episode due to something problematic in it or they censor moments from a movie (Disney Plus is an infamous example of this).

Not to mention some shows and movies don't have a DVD or Blu-Ray release. Perfect examples are Klaus and The One and Only Ivan (the latter's lost forever due to Disney removing it altogether).

 

[Misty Avich]

Another problem with streaming services is that if a certain show or movie you like watching, it might get removed. There's even times when they remove a episode due to something problematic in it or they censor moments from a movie (Disney Plus is an infamous example of this).

Yes, the cancel culture ruins everything for everyone else.

Not to mention some shows and movies don't have a DVD or Blu-Ray release. Perfect examples are Klaus and The One and Only Ivan (the latter's lost forever due to Disney removing it altogether).

I know, I hate that some of my favourite shows never being released on DVD. I feel like punching Disney.

 

[MROSS]

Plan to augment VHS tapes in-order to watch those quality, forgotten movies - some of which might be hard to find on DVD.

 

[Heroine of Winds]

Yes, the cancel culture ruins everything for everyone else.

I know, I hate that some of my favourite shows never being released on DVD. I feel like punching Disney.

One of my favorite shows growing up is The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and to this day, I'm still angry Disney never released the entire show on a DVD or Blu-Ray set. Instead they put it on their streaming service. >.>

I still remember the unnecessary changes they've made to A Goofy Movie along with several others. Really can't stand this either.

 

[MROSS]

YouTube might be a good palce to watch movies that are around and hour and a half in length. Anything longer than an hour and a half lin length, DVDs (and increasingly VHS tapes) are choices. Sometimes, DVD disks have defects which can cause audio/visual recordings to freeze-up. Sometimes, the defects in the DVD can render the disk unusable.

Sometimes, our cable-TV package offers some good movies.

 

[Jeff T]

DVDs and (gasp) VHS videotapes. Even have some old Laserdisks.....

 

[Ghostinthemachine]

Dvds, occasionally Netflix but mainly dvds or bluray