My dad's old DVD collection made me realize how much streaming changed things

I was helping him clean out his basement and found his complete box set of The Wire from 2004. It got me thinking about how we used to have to wait a week between episodes or buy the whole season on disc - has anyone else gone back and tried watching a show that way since streaming took over?

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caseys307d ago

Man that basement find hits different. The Wire on DVD is a treasure. I tried to do a "proper" watch of Breaking Bad on DVD last year and ended up just staring at the box art for twenty minutes trying to remember how to work the menu buttons. My remote control is basically a fossil now, I kept pressing the wrong buttons and getting lost in special features I didn't mean to watch. There's something kind of nice though about being forced to slow down and sit through those FBI warnings and previews again. Makes you appreciate the show more when you can't just binge eight episodes in one sitting while half asleep on the couch.

abbyc337d ago

@caseys30 lmao i think you might be mixing up Breaking Bad with something else because that show actually hit Netflix around 2013 or so and didnt really have a big DVD release until way later. but your point about the menu struggle is so real. i remember buying The Wire on DVD and getting so lost in the episode selection screen because it was like 5 seasons of thumbnails and i kept accidentally clicking on commentary tracks instead of the actual show. honestly though the forced slow pace is kinda nice, like i watched Mad Men on DVD once and it took me three months because i kept falling asleep during the credits and forgetting where i left off. plus you get to actually read the episode descriptions and stuff, which i never bother doing on streaming.