# Do you own a dvd player? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 23, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088 "2021-09-23T12:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bro](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bro/32/81473_2.png) [@Bro](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Bro)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/21 "2021-09-23T14:11:52Z")
Watched “The Scorch Trials” last night on a DVD I borrowed from the library. We do this occasionally for movies I (or someone else in my family) would like to watch but is unavailable on streaming (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu). Do you count the DVD player in my van? That’s a second device and means I could double-vote on your poll. ---
**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/22 "2021-09-23T14:12:11Z")
> [@twig93](#): > > One has a combo VHS/DVD player and the other has a BluRay player and a VCR. Only time I could get a VHS is the little lending libraries, people occasionally put them in there ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/23 "2021-09-23T14:25:24Z")
I still own some VHS movies. 🤷‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![Ajstudies](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ajstudies/32/12532_2.png) [@Ajstudies](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ajstudies)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/24 "2021-09-23T14:35:21Z")
At first I couldn’t remember but then I remembered that we have an old one in the bedroom. I used it when I was recovering from illness and decided to finally watch our old box sets of West Wing. I don’t think I ever finished… ---
**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/25 "2021-09-23T14:36:30Z")
> [@Ajstudies](#): > > old box sets of West Wing that is how I watched West Wing ---
**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/26 "2021-09-23T14:37:48Z")
We have ours so my children’s parents can nostalgically put on 25 year old movies that aren’t nearly as good as remembered 😆 ---
**Author:** ![BruteForce](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bruteforce/32/175_2.png) [@BruteForce](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BruteForce)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/27 "2021-09-23T14:40:23Z")
We had a nice VHS/DVD combo until the kids broke it. I went to replace it and it was some crazy amount (\>$100). So I said nope and we just have DVD players. We have one by each TV in our house, but we hardly ever use them. ---
**Author:** ![Ajstudies](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ajstudies/32/12532_2.png) [@Ajstudies](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ajstudies)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/28 "2021-09-23T14:41:21Z")
We watch most DVD’s via one of the game systems? I think it’s an Xbox? We have a PS4 but it’s in the kid’s room. ---
**Author:** ![IPD](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ipd/32/179_2.png) [@IPD](https://community.goactuary.com/u/IPD)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/29 "2021-09-23T14:52:07Z")
I have an old Xbox360 but it’s not hooked up. Other than that no DVD player. I voted no because if I wanted to watch a DVD in the next 10 minutes I wouldn’t be able to. Even our computers don’t have disk drives anymore. ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/30 "2021-09-23T15:08:27Z")
> [@SpaceLobster](#): > > Well this is certainly a revelation. Yuse guys are watching old movies? I never even really considered watching much other than recent blockbusters. > > There’s probably some way that you folks enjoy movies differently than I do. I’m a ‘turn it on, let the sound wash over me as I drool and don’t think for 90 minutes’. So, there are no movies from years ago you haven’t seen that you want to watch? I’ve been trying to find Magnificent Ambersons on DvD somewhere, as we do not subscribe to Prime or YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/31 "2021-09-23T15:11:59Z")
Netflix disc? ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/32 "2021-09-23T15:13:47Z")
Maybe. I didn’t even know Netflix still mailed discs. Years ago when I commuted on the train I used it all the time. Half the movie on the way to work, half the movie \*with a beer or two 😉 ) on the way home. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/33 "2021-09-23T15:45:44Z")
we have a PS-N whatever or two. they are the last DVD players we own ---
**Author:** ![vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vjvj/32/406_2.png) [@vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/u/vjvj)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/34 "2021-09-23T15:57:20Z")
Years ago I ripped all our old DVDs and put them on a hard drive, which is now hooked to a Raspberry Pi running OSMC for a media player. I still get DVDs from the library and am still in the habit of ripping them so I don’t need to watch right away. I only have Netflix (and the free stuff) for streaming and, more often than not, what I want to watch isn’t on Netflix currently. ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/deeppurple/32/1551_2.png) [@DeepPurple](https://community.goactuary.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/35 "2021-09-23T16:29:56Z")
As far as old tech… I have a working cassette player, although it is new this year. I have a HP 28S calculator that I bought new in the late 1980’s. It was one of the first programmable, graphing calculators on the market. Honestly, I never took to it (RPN), and once I graduated college then spreadsheets became my home for most calculations. I have a standard Pickett slide rule somewhere. It was mine, as in it was bought new for me when I was about 11. Not a hand me down. I have some old Polaroid cameras that have been in the family for 50+ years. Those were hand me downs. I don’t know what to do with them. You cannot buy film for them. ---
**Author:** ![Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/rastiln/32/77682_2.png) [@Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Rastiln)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/36 "2021-09-23T16:49:09Z")
I voted no, but realized the Playstation could actually play DVDs. We own like a dozen, think we pulled one out last Halloween for the nostalgia. Our watching is split about equally between Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and [Dropout.tv](http://Dropout.tv). A bit of Amazon Prime in there on occasion, or Crunchyroll. Oh yeah, Disney+ about 1 hour/week. ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/37 "2021-09-23T16:51:18Z")
> [@DeepPurple](#): > > I have a working cassette player, although it is new this year. > > I have a HP 28S calculator that I bought new in the late 1980’s. It was one of the first programmable, graphing calculators on the market. Honestly, I never took to it (RPN), and once I graduated college then spreadsheets became my home for most calculations. > > I have a standard Pickett slide rule somewhere. It was mine, as in it was bought new for me when I was about 11. Not a hand me down. > > I have some old Polaroid cameras that have been in the family for 50+ years. Those were hand me downs. I don’t know what to do with them. You cannot buy film for them. We have several radios capable of playing cassettes, and I still have my Nakamichi Dragon tape deck somewhere. And a Walkman that still works. I have a reel-to-reel tape deck I used for a party tape in college. Same with a hi-fi Beta player. I probably still have my 28-S somewhere. And a slide rule. My math tutor gave me one back in like 5th grade. Have my original Commodore 64 in the basement, too. Not to mention plenty of gaming consoles. ---
**Author:** ![Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/lucy/32/8802_2.png) [@Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Lucy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/38 "2021-09-23T16:58:00Z")
> [@NormalDan](#): > > I even own a (working) VHS player! I own one, but haven’t used it in years and wonder if it still works. ---
**Author:** ![Bro](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bro/32/81473_2.png) [@Bro](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Bro)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/39 "2021-09-23T17:08:17Z")
While we’re on the subject of old tech, I also have a record player. Bought it about 3 years ago after my daughter bought me a record! Really sweet present, she was in the used book store with friends and saw an album by George Winston, who she knows I love, so she bought it for me. So I bought myself a record player. I now have a collection of around 5 albums, and I listen to one every three or four months or so. ---
**Author:** ![Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mathman/32/14042_2.png) [@Mathman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Mathman)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/do-you-own-a-dvd-player/4088/40 "2021-09-23T17:17:46Z")
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