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I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)
Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.
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.
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?
And Blu-ray beats them both.
The only thing I know about "bluray" is that sometimes it's in the torrent's name.
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.
If you borrow a DVD from the library for free you donβt need to pay for whatever streaming service is holding that particular film hostage, if itβs even available at all. And if itβs a Blu-ray Disc it will have better picture quality than a compressed stream. Making copies is also very easy if you have a computer with a drive, and doesnβt require paying for a VPN to avoid facing the risks of online piracy.
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.
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