Frances Ryan laments the passing of DVDs in the age of streaming (The hill I will die on: Streaming is rubbish – take me back to the golden era of DVDs, 16 March).
May I then commend my own preferred time machine, the disc-by-post service, Cinema Paradiso, which replicates those glory days. I cancelled all my streaming services and now get, on average, four films of my choice delivered to my door a month, each with its own postage-paid return envelope.
The catalogue is, basically, everything. I only watch the good stuff now: current hits and ancient classics. Backed up by ridiculously cheap box sets bought secondhand, my viewing quality has improved immensely. And I will not be funding Mr Bezos’s next yacht.
Tanya Murray
Lancaster
• We’re with Frances Ryan. Our new Sony DVD player was about £40 and secondhand discs are usually cheaper than streaming, which we don’t do anyway. Many charity shops have shelves of DVDs that produce the occasional gem for as little as £1 and at the weekend we watched the Coen brothers’ classic Fargo, which was £2.09 online, postage free.
Jim Hatley
Brighton
• Frances Ryan doesn’t need to “set aside plenty of time” to search through Netflix, Prime and Disney+ to find the film she wants. Just Google the title and “streaming UK”. Takes seconds. She’s right about the costs and adverts though.
Caroline Ewans
London
• And Frances Ryan doesn’t even mention buffering, or messages that “Your TV is not connected to the internet”.
Neville Goodman
Bristol
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