[mathewsanders]

I live in a smallish apartment building with 50 apartments and in the basement we have a little building community library where people put books/DVDs/Blu-ray disks that they’re done with. Last weekend I grabbed The Goodfellas and The Dark Night and will put them back when I’m done.

I think it would be really cool if there were ways for people to share their physical media because I don’t have the room to maintain a big media library, and also don’t have the energy to rip and store locally.

I also want to add that I’ve changed my streaming behavior- I will subscribe and immediately cancel the subscription so that it expires after a month so that I don’t end up with a bunch of active subscriptions that I’m not actively using.

When I do subscribe I always pay for the more expensive ad-free versions but recently I couldn’t get anything to play on Paramounts streaming service. After some trial and error I found that their “ad-free” service won’t run with my blocker running on my router and I needed to allowlist some ad services for it work. That’s pretty annoying.

[kibwen]

Many local libraries offer DVDs. Libraries aren't just for books! My local library has all sorts of weird things, e.g. I can borrow a cake pan for if I don't want to buy a pan just to make a single bundt cake.

[robinsonb5]

Where I live most of the charity shops are selling DVDs very cheaply - often 5 for £1. So I frequently buy a handful, watch them, then re-donate any that I don't want to keep.

[coffeebeqn]

That is a great way of doing things. I did this when I was younger and found tons of movies I would’ve never run into on a streaming website - especially Hong Kong and Japanese movies from the 90s

[dpkirchner]

Paramount's LG app is the worst I've used. It doesn't support the pause feature reliably, ffs! Even browsing TV episodes is a jittery mess (and you must browse because it does a bad job of resuming a series where you left off). As soon as we're done with Star Trek we're gone.