I started working at a charity shop a few months ago and have been slowly building up a small collection of DVDs ever since.
I'm extremely nostalgic for the medium given that it's what I grew up with, but I also love the rituals that revolve around the DVD. It feels much more intimate than streaming.
Having to actually physically go out into the world to find something, not knowing what you're going to find if anything at all. The excitement of finding something you're familiar with or a film you've never heard of that nonetheless looks really interesting from it's cover. Taking the DVD back home and even just having to physically insert it into the player, just knowing that you have it there as a physical object giving it that sense of permanence.
I'm honestly thinking of transitioning away from streaming altogether. I find that there's little to nothing other than Star Trek on Netflix that I actually want to watch, and I've seen virtually every episode of TNG, Voyager and DS9 at least twice. The whole experience just has a certain hollowness to it as well, and I hate the fact that these sites have virtually no film or TV from before the year 2000.
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