DVD is dead. Long live DVD.

[Skybird]

Me too has a big DVD library, it still is several times as big as my Blurays.

I was an enthusiastic movie visitor in the 80s. We had movie days back then once a week, usually Mondays, later Wednesdays, and all shows costed just 5 D-Mark, which was very cheap for that time, prices back then usually ranked 10-12, sometimes 14 D-Mark. Alko, in Westberlin there were plenty of cinemas, so very very many, small ones, and big ones, it was the European cinema capitol. Even today there are still many cinemas of small and minor studio sizes left, 91 cinemas with 220+ showrooms in total, that is more than in any other German metropole. But the big old houses of history and tradition are all gone with the exception of Zoo Palast and Titania Palast, the other big traditional houses all shut down in the late 90s and early 00-years, and the few new replacements were cinema centres of Cineplexx style, and I dont like these that much at all. Also, all too often the volume simply is way to loud for my ears.

I feel about the loss of all that a bit like Ray Bradbury describes it in some of his stories (one of my most favourite authors, almost all he wrote in story and novel form is on my bookshelf, even two collections with 100 stories in original English, although the old German translations from the 80s by publisher Diogenes are very very good for sure).