Oh, definitely you can watch regular DVDs on Blu Ray players. Plus you can they play video files on a flashdrive, and stream from different services, Netflix, Google Play, Hulu, Vudu, whatever the particular Blu Ray player has.
When I was paying $150.00, that included digital cable with 2000 channels, a DVR, and internet. But I spent 80% of my viewing time watching my DVDs and not the cable channels. Most of the shows I really wanted to watch were on premium channels or wouldn't air in the US until long after my friends had stopped blogging about them. I was watching a few network shows and that's it, I'm not much of a channel surfer or "try out a new show for the heck of it" person.
Now that I no longer have cable, I don't miss it. I miss coming home to random Criminal Minds episodes DVR'd off whatever cable channel they're on, but recording them was kind of silly when I have the whole series on DVD.
Streaming fits the way I happen to watch television, where 99% of cable I paid for was going to waste.
Now I just pay the cable company for internet. $55.00 a month.
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Date: 2013-03-06 11:47 pm (UTC)When I was paying $150.00, that included digital cable with 2000 channels, a DVR, and internet. But I spent 80% of my viewing time watching my DVDs and not the cable channels. Most of the shows I really wanted to watch were on premium channels or wouldn't air in the US until long after my friends had stopped blogging about them. I was watching a few network shows and that's it, I'm not much of a channel surfer or "try out a new show for the heck of it" person.
Now that I no longer have cable, I don't miss it. I miss coming home to random Criminal Minds episodes DVR'd off whatever cable channel they're on, but recording them was kind of silly when I have the whole series on DVD.
Streaming fits the way I happen to watch television, where 99% of cable I paid for was going to waste.
Now I just pay the cable company for internet. $55.00 a month.