“Sorry, I got to return this video”
“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”
“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”
“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”
“Do you know where a phone is?”
Why would you want a DVD over streaming it?
If you don’t want to sail the high seas, and you don’t want to pay, the library is a great, free option.
DVD’s are dog shit though. They break really easily, those ungodly annoying ads at the beginning and the amount of space they take. Streaming just beats DVD’s 10-to-1.
And Blu-ray beats them both.
The only thing I know about “bluray” is that sometimes it’s in the torrent’s name.
They were also talking about a kids show, maybe for some backseat entertainment on a long drive with limited cell reception and/or data? Or maybe the kids have an old TV at home with a DVD player and no smart features?
You don’t need quality to watch paw patrol in the car or on a plane. A cheap portable DVD player does wonders for sanity while traveling without needing to dedicate and pre load a tablet with kids stuff.
Not everything is available on streaming. Even things that are available might not be on the services they have subscribed to. Also, while DVDs often have a “play all” option, you can typically play a single episode, and it will stop when it’s over, which is pretty useful for helping to limit how long the kids are watching TV.
Young kids, you want the least amount of confusion and you don’t want to buy them a tablet that you have to maintain/load up with videos to watch.
Eventually there are better options, but there was a window of age that DVDs made all the sense.