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In our electronic world, it seems that things suddenly disappear without much of a warning. Sometimes, it is because they are bought out, like the VHS storage cabinet. One month they were on the shelves then POOF, gone.
Like the VCR where the announcement came through that the last company stopped building them and then, they were gone from the open market.
Okay, this is not a woe for the disappearance of the VCR but rather if one medium can disappear in a snap, who is to say another can't? Right now, looking around the stores, there seems to be lots of DVD and Blu Ray players, but the recorder market seems to be fading. Spindles of blanks are minimal at Best Buy and perhaps questionable at other stores and recorders other than for computers are gone.
Perhaps the recording to +R/-R is disappearing but will the same happen to the just playing of the disk?
If so, how does one upgrade especially if they are like me who have thousands of DVDs. What do we put them on so we are not endlessly paying for the same thing over and over again as the medium changes, so we are not endlessly searching for a new service when they decide not to renew the license?
What do we upgrade to so it is always in our hot little hand?
Just rip everything to a file. Common formats for video are mkv and mp4. Once ripped just about any device that supports the format will be able to play them. But DVDs aren't going anywhere soon. Even if they stopped making dvd players the blu-ray ones are backwards compatible and give it life for a few more years. How long they keep that remains to be seen. If you have a large collection and don't want to deal with ripping them all then maybe pick up several players and keep them in storage. They're so cheap now you can pick up 3 or 4 that would last you a decade even after dvds fade out of existence.
I still have all my CD/DVD's but decided to rip all the CD's and the best DVD's. The ones I knew I might want to watch again. I will not throw them away, I just have them in a closet. I bought an 8tb drive to store all the files. You can watch via Kodi, Plex or DLNA. I'm sure there are other ways. I do have a home network but you could just plug the external into whatever device you are using to access the files. The price of these drives has been coming down. I've seen them as low as $140.
If so, how does one upgrade especially if they are like me who have thousands of DVDs.
My brother is fierce collector and now has over 6000 blue ray disks. You can still purchase cassette players, even if you can't buy pre-recorded cassettes.
Both LP vinyl and eight track sales peaked in 1978.Cassette sales peaked in 1990 at 46% of all formats for music sales. CD sales peaked in 2000 when they were 94% of all formats for music sales.
For movies DVD sales peaked in 2004 and Blue-ray sales peaked in 2013. While there is no guarantee that you will be able to purchase your latest film on disk in the year 2030, there is no reason to think that you can't purchase a player to play your old collection.
Best Buy is advertising their in-store brand DVD player for $19.99 ($10 off sale).There is no reason for all the manufacturers to stop producing such an inexpensive item.
Last edited by PacoMartin; 06-14-2018 at 03:26 PM..
My brother is fierce collector and now has over 6000 blue ray disks. You can still purchase cassette players, even if you can't buy pre-recorded cassettes.
Both LP vinyl and eight track sales peaked in 1978.Cassette sales peaked in 1990 at 46% of all formats for music sales. CD sales peaked in 2000 when they were 94% of all formats for music sales.
For movies DVD sales peaked in 2004 and Blue-ray sales peaked in 2013. While there is no guarantee that you will be able to purchase your latest film on disk in the year 2030, there is no reason to think that you can't purchase a player to play your old collection.
Best Buy is advertising their in-store brand DVD player for $19.99 ($10 off sale).There is no reason for all the manufacturers to stop producing such an inexpensive item.
This.
Unlike magnetic tape, which is very delicate and degrades over time even when stored and handled in ideal conditions, commercially produced DVDs and CDs are very stable. There will be collections of playable discs around for many, many years after the formats have disappeared from the retail market. The demand for players will continue long after it's no longer possible to buy new releases in those formats.
Everything is going digital so there will have to be some kind of way to own it and it not be corruptible or erasable and be able to be saved forever in a secure place like a DVD was.
Unlike magnetic tape, which is very delicate and degrades over time even when stored and handled in ideal conditions, commercially produced DVDs and CDs are very stable. There will be collections of playable discs around for many, many years after the formats have disappeared from the retail market. The demand for players will continue long after it's no longer possible to buy new releases in those formats.
I think PCs are doing away with DVD drives. I can't remember last time I used mine.
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