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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

There are varying reasons to commit to a DVD over anything else:

- There isn't a genuine streaming home at the time. Takes a long time for somethings to find a streaming service. I only just learned that "Freddy's Nightmares", an '80s series which hasn't had decent home releases ever, will now have a streaming home after all this time.

- There isn't a Blu-ray release at the time, which pertains more to out-of-print series and/or movies.

The only "official" streaming home is a "free-but-with-ads" model, which can piss-off people who hate ads! Take most older Transformers series. Most are on Tubi and maybe YouTube, which have ads. Best way to circumvent this is a physical release, which will be DVD for most.

- The older DVD release looks better than streaming cause someone may have made a mistake when uploading it to a streaming service.

- Not all locations have internet access and still rely on physical releases. This also relates to those who have temporarily lost internet access and have to rely on discs.

- Streaming depends largely on the service. If on Disney+, then the likelyhood that anything leaves for "rights issues" is unlikely. Anything on Netflix that isn't Netflix-owned could leave at anytime and take an eternity to find a new streaming service!

- Portable DVD players are good when the power is out, home internet is down, and phones have a tentative charge.

- Physical releases also have special features which aren't always available when looking at the same thing via streaming.

There's a lot of good points, but I'm specifically referring to when something is available on blu-ray, DVD, and to stream. Obviously if DVD is the only way to own something (Shout!'s Sentai DVDs, for example) that's the route you'll take. But...buying Avengers: Infinity War on DVD just seems weird to me. Or, for a more hyperbolic example, I've seen people who specifically purchase Criterion films on DVD instead of blu-ray. If you're paying that much for a boutique collector's edition of a film, why not get the higher quality one? I suppose situations like those are rare, though - people seem to do it out of necessity rather than choice.